Bloating and methotrexate

Hi sorry I can’t remember who posted about bloating on oral methotrexate.

I suffered this but never made the connection between the two.

I’ve now been injecting methotrexate for 3 weeks and all bloating has gone lovely flat tummy😁 result

[Mmrr]

Result!

[Downtime]

Agree . I take 15mg Mxt tablets and suffer from awful bloating and wind! 😬

[Hidden]

It's interesting that you should say this because of some time now I have had this problem really badly and didn't connect it to taking Mtx, but now I think that it could be the reason for it because I didn't used to suffer like this and it can be very embarrassing. I also get a lot of constipation so I don't know if that is yet another side effect of it.

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Yes I got that too. I was starving myself as I couldn’t get into my clothes although my weight was stable ( still over weight)😉

[Hidden]

This resonates with me too. I was worried in case I'd got IBS but now you've got me thinking. Maybe its time to go back to injections or ask for something different.

[Hidden]

I have been asking my rheumy for something different for years now but she says there isn't anything else, which just seems stupid to me. I just think that she can't be bothered.

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Tell her the oral methotrexate doesn’t suit you and you would like to try injections. Be firm and if you do feel better on them then you’ve proved a point if not then you’ve lost nothing.

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I can see what you mean J1707, but the thing is that I would like to try something different to Mtx altogether as I have now been on it for nearly seven years and during that time, I have got progressively worse. Much more pain and deformaties, yet she has never put me on anything else. I have asked time and again and she says there isn't anything else. I have asked about biologics as well as I feel sure that I would qualify for them but again she has said no. I am going to see her on Monday and am determined to be assertive this time. If I get nowhere, I will ask for a second opinion or will ask my GP to refer me to a different rheumy. I can't really see that taking Mtx in injection form would help me any more than the oral ones.

[bear4ble]

You could google ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, open PubMed, and see if there is anything useful for your condition. You can also look up methotrexate ( MTX ).