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Hi - newbie lupie - diagnosed 8 months now. Taking 10mg pred, 200mg plaquinel up till December 07. Unable to wean off pred as joint pain kept coming back. Still not feeling completely well, so was started on Aza mid December - 25mg daily doubling dose every week & have been taking 100mg for past 2 weeks.
Apart from some initial nausea in the mornings (even though take it after evening meal), I felt so much better - more like my old self & since going back to the gym & building up my running again, I'd thought I'd found my magic drug & can now look forward to trying to conceive this year.
HOWEVER, my fortnightly ALT's on my bloods have come back really high (214 & 204 - the last ones) & it was when I increased from 75mg - 100mg. I feel absolutely fine, though I've been told to stop the aza for 5 days & then restart on 50mg daily & have weekly blood test now.
Do you think that I'm just on too high a dose, my liver can't handle it (I weigh about 47kg). I'm hoping that I can stay on this drug because I feel great on it & not keen to try metho. I really want to get pregnant this year & just hope I can get this damned disease under control!!
thanks for listening
bbx
Apart from some initial nausea in the mornings (even though take it after evening meal), I felt so much better - more like my old self & since going back to the gym & building up my running again, I'd thought I'd found my magic drug & can now look forward to trying to conceive this year.
HOWEVER, my fortnightly ALT's on my bloods have come back really high (214 & 204 - the last ones) & it was when I increased from 75mg - 100mg. I feel absolutely fine, though I've been told to stop the aza for 5 days & then restart on 50mg daily & have weekly blood test now.
Do you think that I'm just on too high a dose, my liver can't handle it (I weigh about 47kg). I'm hoping that I can stay on this drug because I feel great on it & not keen to try metho. I really want to get pregnant this year & just hope I can get this damned disease under control!!
thanks for listening
bbx