I have increased MTX to 20 meg and can sleep eight hours at night plus one hour at noon. Along with the sleepiness, my brain is not very hsarp. I used to sleep very poorly. Is the sleepiness side effect of MTX? Anyone else experience the same thing? ABSOLUTELY baby. Also a feeling like you may be getting ill, or are ill. I sleep A LOT on mtx. But it is a miracle drug for those that can take it. I hope it works for you. RoxMTX makes me tired,achy and mentally out of it for several days. Sometimes I have nightmares with it.me too. I always know I will feel like I have a flu/cold
is THAT what the folic acid is for?? my doctor always said it was to stop the mouth sores......... i always forget to take it. hmmmmmmmmm - woobieI take the folic acid I don't know if it really helps or not for me because I always have taken it. Im still exhausted.The tiredness eventually disapeared with me. I don't know if I just got used to being tired, or if my body got used to the drug and started coping in other ways.
I take 2400mcg (2.4mg) per day. I started out on 1 mg per day of the folic acid and was tired ALL of the time. Since I went up on the dose I have noticed a big difference.I will ask my doctor on my next visit. Which is in a week.I was told the folic acid is to stop my hair from falling out and prevent mouth sores. It is a chemo drug..... The fear of hair loss makes me remember to take it. I hate my sore body and I hate my achy joints...BUT I still Love my Hair!!!I don't know about helping to keep the hair in as I'm losing my bangs rapidly, but the 4mg per day of folic acid has helped a lot with the drowziness and brain fog I get with the MTX,Yeah, the folic acid is supposed to help with the other side effects too. I have some samples that the doc gave me that are 2.8 mg of folic acid and have B6 and B12 in them too. I havent used them yet though 'cause I am trying to use up the other ones first. I wish that I could take folci acid, it kills my bladder, my doc doesn't prescribe the folic acid unless you have mouth sores, he said. I take 20mg just upped it from 17.5 and was on enbrel but they have pulled me off due to some muslce pain that I got when I started it and some numbess in calf joints. Anyone get hip and muslce pain from the enbrel? I do eat foods high in folic acid and take an oatmeal by Kashi that has 100 percent of the daily reccommend does of b vitamins 6 and 12 and folic acid.
the next day or so. Spend most of the day after
resting. Then go to church and recuperate on
sunday and back to work on monday. it does work
for me though and i'm glad to have it.
it's wierd because I always wake up a little earlier the
day after and have realy strange waking-up dreams.
Then after an hour or so I go back to sleep. strange
about the dream!Last week I sleep all night and all day. Fatigue is defianetly a side effect. I am always exhausted. All i have to do is maybe wash dishes or throw a load of laundry in and Im done.I sleep and rest the day after I take Mtx because I don't have the energy to do anything else.I took it yesterday, & just sat down & fell asleep today. For me, it's a delayed reaction. I get sleepy the next day, and a little bit of nausea comes on Sat. It's been 3 weeks in a row, so I don't think it's coincidence, but I haven't had too much trouble with it.
Thanks for this post! I took my MTX yesterday (15mg) and today at a
luncheon I thought I was going to fall asleep at the table. This never
happens since I usually have to take Ambien to sleep.
I love these boards, it helps knowing that we can rely on each other -
because other people just don't understand what we go through.
NewsieFOLIC ACID GUYS!!! It has been a miracle worker for me. I increased my folic acid and now I dont have near the ammt of fatigue that I had before. I used to be useless on the day after my MTX. Now I dont even have to take a nap during the day. I have got other people taking who dont even have RA!
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