Hello from the Netherlands

[YvonS]

Hi Yvon,

Nice to see you here. As I was the one that pointed you over here, I should also be the one to be the first to welcome you over here. 

Very soon others will jump in and give you a welcome message.


You have quite a history.. wow, and indeed rheumatologists always start with MTX. Personally I kicked off from that rather quickly and I found that DMF was the solution for me.
Rheums will not prescribe that by themselves, as they think it will not work, but that is solely in their minds.
We can speak later about that.

Enjoy the forum, there is a lot of banter around, which is also nice to follow.

Cheers,
Caroline.

Thank you for your warm welcome!

I had read somewhere here on the Forum that you also had to give up sports because of the PsA? I can no longer ride a motorbike myself, I can't keep my neck up in the (riding)wind, I stiffen and can no longer squeeze the levers or my pedals. That became too dangerous, so unfortunately had to stop.
Another hobby, pinstriping, is very difficult because the inflammation in my neck presses on my nerves and then I start to shiver... not so handy when you have to draw a straight line 

So next week I will have a face to face conversation with the rheumatologist, because of corona the results etc went by phone.
But when I speak to him, I want to indicate that I know that Mtx is not the most helpful medication for PsA.
And ask why did he decide to give it to me anyway? Why do I have to be on a drug for 3 months that you have no certainty about?
Now I also have Autism and I am very well aware of rules and substantiation of my stories. So I hope i can change his mind. We will see.