Health Boards
Mon-23-03-2020, 14:20 PM
(This post was last modified: Mon-23-03-2020, 14:22 PM by arsenalfan13. Edited 2 times in total.)
Just thought I'd pop in with a quick update. Still on MTX and I am still 100% clear save for the very odd and very small spot that has popped up and disappeared a couple weeks later. I am still getting no side effects from the MTX either and I am down to a 10mg dose.
HOWEVER, I took a blood test straight after my last dermatology appointment a few weeks ago. It's the special blood test.. not the one I have to take every 3 months but one I've had to take a few times since being on MTX that checks for something specific (perhaps someone will know more about what it checks for?) and when I got home from work on Friday I had a letter from the hospital asking me to book in for a repeat blood test.
Obviously very worried now as MTX has worked so well for me.. Not worried that it's anything serious but that my tests have shown something that would mean I have to come off MTX if it comes up in the repeat test. I mean, that would be the only reason I'd be asked to take a repeat, right?
I had one elevated result for something early on in my MTX journey but that had returned to normal in the next blood test and was also on the regular blood test not the special one as above.
Edit by Fred: Changed size of text to default.
HOWEVER, I took a blood test straight after my last dermatology appointment a few weeks ago. It's the special blood test.. not the one I have to take every 3 months but one I've had to take a few times since being on MTX that checks for something specific (perhaps someone will know more about what it checks for?) and when I got home from work on Friday I had a letter from the hospital asking me to book in for a repeat blood test.
Obviously very worried now as MTX has worked so well for me.. Not worried that it's anything serious but that my tests have shown something that would mean I have to come off MTX if it comes up in the repeat test. I mean, that would be the only reason I'd be asked to take a repeat, right?
I had one elevated result for something early on in my MTX journey but that had returned to normal in the next blood test and was also on the regular blood test not the special one as above.
Edit by Fred: Changed size of text to default.