Update

[Neverwell]

Hi just a little up date managed to get hold of my nurse this morning asked about very low mood she had a word with the doc and it's not a side affect of mtx ,told me to see gp for thyroid check and a steroid injection so going tomorrow to see gp hope you all are pain free x

[Hidden]

Well I have had the same thing Neverwell and was told by one GP that it's listed as a side effect under mood changes/ swings. Then my main GP told me he thought it was about coming to terms with having RA and gave me a cognitive therapy site to look at - useless!? Then I learned that my rheumy was putting it down to active disease. Since then it's lessened gradually so that alongside the spots I was getting on my face after each dose it's disappeared more or less. My own feeling is that it was the MTX as my body got used to it and when I googled MTX and depression it seems to point overwhelmingly at this being the culprit for many people. I think the doctors worry we will stop taking it so they deny these side effects - which I can understand because many of them do seem to get better or go away eventually. Talk it through with your GP but don't be fobbed off that it's not listed as a side effect if other things don;t show up such as thyroid (I am also hypothyroid). Tilda

[sylvi]

Is it any wonder we get depressed when nobody will tell us the truth. I get depressed and i have seen a pcycologistbut with me it was all about my knee,but all the drugs we take its bound to have an effect on our nervous system. I still get very down with this disease and i can cry for england. When i'm good i feel as though i'm on a high. Take yesterday i was doing things that days before i couldn't do and i know i will pay for what i did yesterday.

Sylvi, xxxx

[Jan66]

Hi, well we all seem to have very severe depressing days.!!! That, in itself, is a little consolation- never the less we all seem to carry on regardless hoping to see some sort of light at end of tunnel, I think it is the human condition to survive no matter what????

Feel like crap this morning but sun shining and will do bugger all today.

X yo everyone, j

[lisarob]

I alos have had the same problem and also asked if it was mtx. My GP said that RA was a mood altering condition, and that I just had to come to terms with it. (Not at all helpfull). I had a thyroide check but all normal. I does seem to ba a common theme though. Hope you find you smile soon

[Neverwell]

Thanks everyone doc was very good had injection so hoping that will take pain away

having tyroide checked again just been told it was just below normal

Last time it was checked( why I was not told I don't know )

Put me on tramadol now he is not discounted the low mood to mtx said because its only been five months on it and I was ok before( no low mood) he's asked me to see want happens when they change me in oct will have to wait till then

You all have a pain free day x