Originally Posted by
maria garcia
HI guys its Maria the mother of Christina, my 18 year old with MPA. I was very involved in the forum about 6 months ago. I also want to say Im heart broken with the news about Al. He always had wise answers and kindness. It was like havinga a wegs dictionary on the forum.He would private message me with answers to calm a nervous mother. I even told him I wanted to adopt him as my father because he was always there to calm me down and feel better he helped me through me deppresion. He would never be forgotten in my heart.
I have a question for you: My daughter has been taking MTX 25mg and Prednisone tapered to 5 mg and she is doing great no more red eyes. Well today we went to see a new Rheumy now that she turned 18. Well this doctor 100% recommended rituxan(not sure the spelling its been around about 1 year for wegs) Well he said MTX is a very toxic drug to be used for a long period. He said that bcse she is so young it would be to toxin for her future. He also said it would be very hard to go on remission and be able to stop the med. MTX. He suggested Rituxan. He said this med would put her in remission in 2 months and no more prednisone or any meds until symptoms would come back he said usually 6 months. He said if it was his daughter Rituxan would be the way he would go. He made MTX sound like a lethal drug that would never put her on remission. She has been doing very well on it all her blood panels have been perfect and no more symptoms. PLEASE HELP ME>
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