Well, now I've heard everything! I was reading Twitter this morning and a consultant rheumatologist from Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge, David OReilly, posted this! Somebody commented that this study had been carried out previously in 2016/2017. Makes an interesting read. link.springer.com/article/1...
Adding caffeine to reduce ill effects of mtx! - NRAS
Adding caffeine to reduce ill effects of mtx!
Hardly a fantastic success...but if Mtx works well without side effects it really is very effective ......so if you were suffering & there was no reason you shouldn’t eat chocolate or drink coffee could be worth a try?
After all ......look at the often daft/horrible potions people do try to beat side effects!
Well interesting, I have very mild side effects and I do have 4 to 5 strong cups of coffee each day. Perhaps there’s something to it.
I will get my son to try this , he doesn’t like coffee or dark chocolate but he might try it if it would help the nausea!!!
Oh my goodness, this is spooky!! Since January I've been increasing my dose of MTX every 4 weeks, up to 25mg. I was dreading it because I always felt sick and had a headache at 17.5mg. However, i started to get really strong cravings for coffee after being a tea drinker all my life. So started drinking coffee. Low and behold, my side effects not only didn't worsen as the MTX increased, they virtually disappeared - and until now I never knew why. Thank you!
🙄 one clinic nurse told me to reduce caffeine or give it up all together 🤷🏽♀️
I have stopped caffeine too 🙂
That's exactly what I was told by my rheumy nurse.
Didn't work for me!
I'm not convinced either tbh...but maybe for Dobcross1, it may have 🤷🏻♀️
It worked for my OH. When he was on mtx I plied him with strong coffee just before and the day following mtx. It definitely helped fatigue. Different for everyone of course.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing.
That's just weird. I practically lived on coffee and mocked decaffeinated as a waste of time. RD happened. On MTX the nausea built from nothing to awful. I read an article saying that caffeine and MTX were a bad mix so tried the decaffeinated and, bingo, all was (mostly) back to normal. Each to their own I suppose
Just goes to show - we are all crazy individuals 🤪