None of us went to questions here are doctors, but answer based on our own experience and whatever knowledge we've managed to pick up. Some questions are best asked of a doctor and unfortunately, this is one of them - I say unfortunately because if your doctor can't tell you, you're kind of stuck there. You may want to consider getting a second opinion or ask for referral to a lung specialist who may be more knowledgeable about this. You don't mention what kind of lung damage you have, so I can't do any research on that, but I truly believe a lung specialist is a much better option than me and Google.

In general, methotrexate takes a couple of months to really kick in, which if you use common sense, could mean that it'll take a couple of months to leave your body, as well. I poked around in Google it little bit and because methotrexate causes severe birth defects, it is generally recommended to wait six months after stopping the medication before trying to conceive, so perhaps that indicates that the margin of safety is six months. It's possible you can use that as an indication of how long it takes for meth to completely be out of your system.

Let us know how things go?

karbon

8/ 5/10 7:46pm

I don't know if you've found out more information by now re: lung damage - but I'll add my 2 cents here now.

 

I also had lung damage from methotrexate. Bad. The pulmonologist did a follow-up cat scan a few months later to check if the damage was permanent. Lucky me - the methotrexate almost killed me - but the damage was temporary. My mother died after suffering 10 years with interstitial lung disease (w/o RA), so that was very welcome news.

 

 

Lene Andersen, Health Guide

8/ 5/10 7:54pm

thank you for sharing your experience - it was very valuable information. I'm relieved to hear that the damage to your lungs was temporary.