lefluenomide itches

[bimini]

Hi everyone. Does anyone who takes leflunomide get dry itchy patches in sweaty areas? e.g armpits, under the bra line etc. It is bearable but annoying. The other weird one is I feel like I have a stray long hair on the end of my nose that needs brushing off, there's nothing there and the tingling carries on. Its so weird! I keep swiping my nose like I'm mad lol

[Hidden]

Not much use as I've never taken Leflunomide but just to empathise: I'm getting weird side effects from Sulfasalazine including feeling that I have hair in my mouth the whole time. I think some of the odder side effects are the hardest to put up with somehow. But hopefully will pass in time .....? x

[bimini in reply to Hidden]

gosh that is a strange one too. I have just come off sulfasa (after a year) for abit to see if it was affecting my eyes, something is, just going thru the morions of seeing what. joys indeed of side effects lol

[Hidden]

I take Leflunomide and have had none of these symptoms.

[bimini in reply to Hidden]

i have been ok on it otherwise too

[Hidden]

oh i did message you earlier and it disappered. I took the lefl and it helped but the itching got steadily worse and what was at the beginning only an itch became so bad that i asked to be put off it. The consultant was very relunctant but eventually agreed to go on to another dmard.

[bimini in reply to Hidden]

thanks for that, interesting... i hope it doesn't get any worse or I could be doing the same but my rheumy has said thats the last of the dmards for me. I am waiting approval for humira to start in june hopefully and hope to get some sort of life back... i live in hope

[Dogrose]

If it is in creases, sweaty places etc. might it be a mild infection (maybe fungal?) rather than a reaction to the drug? Might be worth checking that out with doc. xxx

[bimini in reply to Dogrose]

yea i will do thanks, the doctor is so sick of seeing me lol

[Hidden]

I'm leflunomide and I cannot use any liquid soap to wash my hands or use any shower gel. Those gives me deep cracks in my hands and my heels. I can only use Dove soap now. I don't mind because I like soaps!

[bimini in reply to Hidden]

that iz bizarre I have just said to my husband about a big crack that has come out of nowhere on my heel. Quite painful.

[Hidden]

Try to wash with soap and see if it works for you and let me know. Good luck!

[bimini]

I will do thanks I put the heel cream on last night so its not so painful now.

[Tinwoman2]

Oh, yes, I feel like there is a long hair hanging thru my eyebrow lying on my cheek a lot of the time, but I never associated it with meds though. I look at a mirror & see nothing & then I feel it again, it is so maddening. Good luck.

Christine