azathioprine and work related issue

[jpatdu]

Hi there hope you can advice me, I'm going to start Azathioprine in few weeks time and I want you to advice me how can Azathioprine affect my health while working? Can I work? The environment of my work place is hospital ward.

[mg15]

Not sure about your work. But the drug itself does suit me. No drinking while on it. Take it at the same time each day. I take it after dinner each night. I get my bloods done every month. I think you might be able to work with it. It improves your quality of life. good luck with it!

[jpatdu in reply to mg15]

Thank you very much for info.. Means a lot to me..??

[Delila]

Hi I've been on it for nearly 30 years with one break of about 18 months during that time. I've worked full time since I was 17, which is also when I was diagnosed with lupus and APS. I work for a large bank in a very stressful, full on job in a very large office, with that comes colds and all sorts of infectious ailments. I've rarely caught anything even though azathiaprine lowers your immunity. Hopefully you'll be fine with it (never had any side effects) and it will make you feel better.

[jpatdu in reply to Delila]

Thanks Delia for your advice.. I'm more thinking positive now..

[Clare9811 in reply to Delila]

Apologies for 'butting in'...but this is exactly the same as me. Everyone at work is sufferring from all of the infectious illnesses that regularly do the rounds in an office environment, and I'm the one with the lower immunity and the only one who doesn't catch it same at home with my husband and children, it's a mystery

[willow24]

hi, im a staff nurse on busy medical ward and as long as you dont have contact with chicken pox, shingles, measles or pneumacoccal illnesses you should be ok. dr prescribing this medication should of given you an alert card, like the steroid card, which has this info on. it is important to have regular blood tests (weekly at 1st then eventually 8 wkly) to make sure you dont become neutrapaenic. oh and if you can have the yearly flu jab. hope that some help to you

[jpatdu in reply to willow24]

Thanks very much for the info , my ward where I'm working have many infectious dse, I had Chicken pox already when I'm a child I should be ok isn't .

[willow24 in reply to jpatdu]

i had chicken pox too, but my consultant told me to avoid close contact with patients until pox sores dry. try the crohns website page:- nacc.org.uk/downloads/facts...

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