I had my appointment with the RA doctor, she had questioned if I had RA or Fibro or both. So as a test she gave me a shot of cortisone to see what happened..well it worked great!! So she used that as a confirmation tool that I had RA. So we do the methotrexate and mobic, prednisone, folic acid. the mtx was 15mg. once a week.
This made me sick.
At my follow up appt. she said you dont hve RA cause if you did the mtx would help you, not make you sick....can anyone give me advice. She tells me I have fibro and osteo.
I think the RA diagnosis was correct, but the mtx was too strong. Has anyone had an experience that mtx makes you sick sick.???
Thank you in advance.
Gloria





My lab work showed +RA factor (we did it twice), but the RA Titer was -.
Painful joints/muscles and stiffness with lots of pain, fatigue.... but no swollen joints to speak of. she did the cortisone shot as a diaagnotsic tool to see how I reacted and I felt like a new person, so that was her confirmation of RA, then the treatment began with the mtx for 3 months that made me really sick. So her thoughts were you dont have ra because the mtx would of brought relief.......im confused
glo