I go to my RD later this month and the topic of the injectable MTX has spiked curiosity in me. How do you inject this? IM or subq? Also, do you by-pass all the nasty stomach upset etc by injecting?
Thanks for your replies !!!!
MTX is a sub-q injection, usually once weekly. I took a little reglan for stomach upset the first few times I took the MTX just as a precaution, but then I tried it without the reglan and found that I was not getting upset stomach anyways. So no, I dont have any tummy troubles with it and that was my main reason for chooseing the injectible in the first place.I did my first MTX injection today and I must say, all the worrying I did about it was all for nothing, at least so far. I haven't had any nausea or anything and from what I'm told, that would have happened within several hours of the injection.
Olive, I don't have much experience with all this yet but from what I've read, the possibility of side affects is reduced when MTX is injected. My Dr. also has me taking 1mg of folic acid to help reduce any side affects.
I guess I must be one of the ones that still have the NASTY
I am on NOW .5mgs of the injectable...from .7mgs.
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