- Question How quickly does methotrexate work? … weeks as a bridge so that symptoms improve while methotrexate takes hold.
- Question How quickly does methotrexate work? … weeks as a bridge so that symptoms improve while methotrexate takes hold.
- Question Is methotrexate a chemotherapy drug? Methotrexate is used in cancer treatment at doses many times higher than in rheumatology. The weekly low dose used for arthritis works differently, and its side-effect p…
- Article Starting methotrexate: what the first three months are like Methotrexate is the backbone of treatment for several types of inflammatory arthritis. What it does, how long it takes, and the practical points that make it easier to t…
- Condition Ankylosing Spondylitis AS, radiographic axial spondyloarthritis Ankylosing spondylitis is long-term inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac joints, with damage visible on X-ray. It causes back pain and stiffness that improve wit…
- Condition Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus Skin lupus, discoid lupus Cutaneous lupus is lupus that affects mainly the skin. It produces sun-sensitive rashes that can scar and cause permanent hair loss if untreated. Most people with cutane…
- Condition Dermatomyositis DM Dermatomyositis is an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the muscles together with a distinctive rash. Weakness affects the shoulders and hips first — difficulty…
- Condition Enteropathic Arthritis IBD-associated arthritis Enteropathic arthritis is joint inflammation that occurs in people with inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. It affects up to a third of p…
- Condition Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM) IMNM, necrotizing autoimmune myopathy, statin-associated autoimmune myopathy Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy causes severe, rapidly progressive muscle weakness with very high muscle enzyme levels — often ten to fifty times normal. Muscle fib…
- Condition Medium Vessel Vasculitis — Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) PAN Polyarteritis nodosa is inflammation of medium-sized arteries. It causes patchy damage wherever those arteries supply — nerves, skin, gut, kidneys and muscles — producin…
- Condition Polymyositis PM Polymyositis is autoimmune inflammation of the muscles without the rash seen in dermatomyositis. It causes symmetrical weakness of the shoulders and hips developing over…
- Condition Psoriatic Arthritis PsA Psoriatic arthritis is inflammatory joint disease that occurs in people with psoriasis. It can affect the joints, the tendon insertions, the spine and the nails, and aro…
- Condition Reactive Arthritis Reiter's syndrome Reactive arthritis is joint inflammation triggered by an infection elsewhere in the body — usually in the gut or the urinary tract — appearing one to four weeks afterwar…
- Condition Rheumatoid Arthritis RA Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the lining of the joints. It typically affects the small joints of the hands, wrists and…
- Condition Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Lupus, SLE Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues. It can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, blood cells, lungs, heart and nervous…
- Condition Systemic Sclerosis / Scleroderma Scleroderma, SSc Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that causes thickening and tightening of the skin along with damage to small blood vessels and internal organs. It almost alw…
- Condition Takayasu Arteritis Pulseless disease, aortoarteritis Takayasu arteritis is inflammation of the aorta and its major branches, narrowing them over time. It causes arm or leg tiredness with activity, weak or absent pulses, un…
- Condition Urticarial Vasculitis UV, hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis Urticarial vasculitis produces weals that look like ordinary hives but behave differently: each lesion lasts more than 24 hours, burns or stings rather than itching, and…
- Treatment Immunomodulation & Biologic Therapy Procedure …from conventional disease-modifying drugs such as methotrexate, through targeted synthetic agents, to biologics that block a single molecule in the inflammatory pathway.
- Article Infection and vaccines when you are on immunosuppressive treatment What the increased risk actually amounts to, which vaccines to have, which to avoid, and the symptoms that should not be waited out.
- Article Surgery, dental work and your rheumatology medicines Which medicines are held before a procedure, which are continued, and why stopping the wrong one causes more trouble than it prevents.
- Question Does treating my skin also treat my joints? …ic arthritis. Others treat one and not the other; methotrexate helps both, while some topical and light treatments help only the skin. Joint disease needs its own asses…
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