My mother has suffered from fairly severe rheumatoid arthritis for several years. She did not respond well to several different treatments, and she was until recently having weekly IVs of Methotrexate.
She has become very distressed to recently, after several months, learn that this was a form of chemotherapy, and has ceased this treatment.
She has asked me to get some info from the 'net about methotrexate so she has some ‘ammunition’ when she goes in to discuss this decision with her doctor later this week.
I have pulled a load of info off from various web-sites, what I would really appreciate very much would be if any dopers out there with first or second hand experience of any kind with this drug would share it with me.
Links to useful web-sites, official or unofficial would also be appreciated - I have no medical knowledge and have just printed reams off from my Google searches. I don’t mind hearing about the same web-site zillions of times, I do mind missing something obvious.
Any and all advice or comments also gratefully received.
Thanks.
