Starting MTX

[D Foster]

Well it has been a few weeks now that I have been off MTX and it is starting to show. I think it is about six weeks since my last dose and it has started to return inexorably.

I am having to use Dovobet to keep it at bay on my face and butt and I have some very tiny patches coming on my arms and legs.

I can still go swimming it hasn't come back bad yet but is patchy on my face and I can have a beer now but really I don't want to go back where I was.

I have my NHS consultants appointment on the 12th November and I only hope they don't look at me and decide I do not have it bad enough for them to not prescribe it.

Knowing that it will take about 4 weeks to be effective puts me getting towards Christmas for it to have receded again if it does.

When I went on to Stelara I was off the MTX for 6 weeks and mine came back with a vengeance .