I Want to Stop Methotrexate

[Caroline]

I have a poor memory it’s true and I haven’t documented this on here as it all came before I joined - but my memory is I had an issue with nausea on methotrexate, however it was the folic acid rather than the mtx that was making me nauseous so they reduced the days I had to take it or the dose and it improved a lot.

If you look up nausea and folic acid, it’s a common side effect..

I also use folic acid, for rebuilding some vitamines, but I don’t experience any nausea. While when I was on MTX, I felt my whole body resisting in a kind of a stress reaction.

Caroline, I don't remember how long you were on MTX.  Did it feel as though the whole body stress reaction intensified the longer you were on it?

Hi Forest,
I missed this one.
I have been about 8 weeks on MTX. An the longer I was on it the more I realised that it was very bad for my body. I felt my body cracking and crunching while I was using it.
And then I decided that I could better have the PsA than this with possible other damage to my body. So I stopped, said goodbye to my rheumy and went on searching in other directions. Later on, it took some time where I tried a diversity of alternative treatments with results varying from zero to amazing, I was tipped to a doctor who was an internist and I went to him. He gave me DMF, which gradually started to work and solved a lot of the Psoriatic Arthritis. He knew an awful lot about psoriasis and psa, and I learnt a lot from him. As an internist he has a completely different view on the cause and possible solutions/treatments of psoriasis.
Only over here on psoriasisclub in a post of Fred, I found out that MTX really does nothing for PsA, which fitted with my personal experiences. So that closed the book definitely for me.