Almost there

[bassman]

Good for you, Bassman. Long term use of medication often results in a squeeze between side effects and efficacy, so you are very fortunate that the maximum dosage is delivering for you. Hopefully you can reduce your dose at some stage. Out of interest, has your specialist concurrently prescribed topicals such as calcipotriol? I have found the use of accessory therapies to be very helpful in controlling the disease and allowing me to take less DMF, which is why I keep experimenting.

Cheers,

Bill

As i see it Bill, the max dosage of Fuma is more or less what it has taken to get me this far, so as far i'm concerned, i'll not reduce the dose unless i get side effect problems, which is really minimal in my case. At least its minimal in what i feel. I cannot feel what the blood tests are telling me but the doctors will tell me if there's anything untowards going on in the bloods. Like my time on MTX, it was the bloods that said i needed to come off them. I didnt know because i didnt feel anything

If the blood test revealed anythingon Fuma, then yes i would reduce the dose, but i feel this isn't necessary at the moment.

As for Calcitropiol, i've never heard of that and has never been offered to me by any consultant