Ah the fun of MTX

Okay so I have to preface this by saying my original Rheumy felt that my reaction to MTX warranted NOT continuing the treatment.

In Australia, Medicare will pay for your treatment (mostly) if you go by certain criteria.  I have run out of biologicals that they don't require you to be on MTX to subsidise.

So when I went on Orencia I had to start on MTX AGAIN.

What was my reaction?

Well not what most people experience.

I had hallucination!!!

YEP, let the fun begin.

So I knew that I would most likely have them and had a few the first few weeks.  Recently you can add weird dreams to the list of crap I have to deal with, with the MTX.

So what kind of hallucinations?

Well in the last week I have seen, my husband hop out of bed and start searching the bed for something he apparently lost, didn't happen.

I have seen an owl over my bed staring at me during the middle of the night, I'm gonna let you guess if that one happened.

I have seen a dark little person figure standing at out bedroom door.  Thought this one was our son, and asked him  if everything was alright, he wasn't there.

So those are the ones that stick out most in my memory.

Lets not forget about those waking dreams thing where I swear I have done something that I haven't.  Like this morning I could have sworn I put the dog in the laundry room.  She usually sleeps in there so as to not have accidents in the house at night.  I even actually checked the time.  When I got up a couple of hours later, she was in bed with my daughter, the dog.

So I get to continue my hate/hate relationship with MTX.  On top of that now I am having constant cramps and can't go too far from a toilet.  I am hoping that is more a bug than a reaction though.

When these hallucinations first happened I went to my hubbies GP.  I told him what happened.  I thought a flower in my room was a teeny tiny itty bitty dragon, don't ask cause I have not idea.  Then every time I looked at a towel we had hanging on our wall, it is a really pretty towel with a wolf on it, I could have sworn that wolves ear was eating it's head.  Well the very rude, meanie head, poopy doctor said, "Are you sure you didn't get drunk?'  No I don't drink ever at all, never have.  "You Sure?"  Needless to say I told my Rheumy about it, and he said, yep that is a reaction to the MTX lets not take that anymore.

So if your GP or Specialist or anyone tells you, you can't have that particular reaction, they don't know squat!!!