Previous Medications to help manage RP:
- Prednisone (range from 40 mg to 1 mg throughout the course of about one year)
- Side effects included night sweats, purple spots on skin, weight gain, moon face, mood swings, fatigue, feeling sad, over-energized, in a constant state of mind rush, hungry all the time
- Methotrexate
- Side effects included nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, soft stool
- Rayos Prednisone
- Night sweats, maintained the weight & moon face, mood swings, feeling sad
- Leucovorin Calcium
- No side effects
Current Medications to manage RP:
- Methotrexate (25 mg) once a week (taking 10 pills/2.5 mg)
- side effects include diarrhea and soft stool.
- Leucovorin Calcium - 8 hours after taking Methotrexate
- Hyrimoz (40 mg) once every two weeks
- Side effects include runny nose, congestion in the nose and throat, feeling as if I am in a constant state of having cold like symptoms, clearing of throat and cough, feeling tired
Other symptoms since being diagnosed with RP and starting medications:
- joint pain (shoulders, wrists, hands, knees)
- rib cage pain
- back pain
- neck pain
- feeling tired (anemia)
- low energy
- feeling sick most days
Medically diagnosis before RP:
- Migraines
- Mild Asthma
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