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Auntie has made such remarkable progress. She sounds better than I have heard her in months. She has been going downhill longer than originally thought. It is unreal how the Methotrexate had devastated her body.

She has been on this drug for many years and its hard telling how many years of life she has lost because of it. She has suffered from RA (rheumatoid arthritis) since she was a kid, so I’m not blaming that on this med. She was also diagnosed with CHF (congestive heart failure), but I don’t know how long ago that happened. She now has CAD (coronary artery disease), which she did have before all of this started.

She is going back to the eye doctor next week to see if her prescription has changed because she says her vision is not as clear now. The double vision is gone, but she got her glasses recently enough to where the meds were affected her vision.
She has been to so many doctors; I don’t know how they did help her sooner. We were at 2 doctors offices the week she ended up in the hospital. One of them was with a PA (physician’s assistant) and the other was with her RA doctor. She is the one who put her on all this medication and should have seen the warning signs. Everything I tried to tell them was ignored. When I expressed my concern on the double vision being caused by one of her RA meds, I was told they can cause blurry vision and that was different than double vision. They were thinking she had a stroke, but after 2 CT scans, they decided she hadn’t had one.

I have been seeing a new commercial for a new RA drug called Simponi. They are saying you take it in conjunction with methotrexate. I can’t believe they are still pushing this drug. It was originally used for cancer patients, but they added RA and psoriasis to its uses.

I will never understand why they can’t find the best solution, for the most amount of problems, with the least amount of medication.