Originally Posted by
Sangye
Adrina, if your doctor is talking to you about lifetime mtx, it's time to get a Wegs specialist involved. That is outdated thinking. They know now that staying on "maintenance" drugs indefinitely does not guarantee that you'll avoid flares, and it does guarantee that you'll be taking serious drugs for years on end. Those drugs have consequences which often outweigh the possibility of an occasional flare.
Also, I'm not sure if you know it, but your doctor should not be using ANCA to measure disease progress. It's useful for diagnosis, but in most cases is not an accurate indicator of disease activity. It's best to rely on signs/ symptoms and diagnostic tests.
Thanks Sangye for the info. sometimes when i go to my appointments i forget some of the information that is given to me (which is not good), my memory nowadays is very slim, i usually hear "blood test is good, but you need to start taking iron pills, you will be weaned off in feb. 2012 from mtx, oh, and don't get pregnant". i do need to visit a Wegs specialist, due to the doctors in the country where i live are not specialist on this particular condition, i'm actually the 3rd person to be diagnosed with it in the hospital here.
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