| URAQT2 2005-04-25, 5:51 pm |
| Thanks Steve. I appreciate you personal history since I am fairly new
to MTX. The clearing I have now is very encouraging.
Steve wrote:
> "URAQT2" <URAQT2@B4ME.org> wrote in message
> news:Brxae.14818$NU4.8615@attbi_s22...
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> Until about 3 years ago, there was no "gold standard" blood test for
> checking the damage that MTX can do. For severe or chronic P, patients are
> usually on it for life (me - 20 years and counting). They used to (and still
> do) check 3 factors :- Cell counts, Creatinine, and Liver Function Tests
> (mainly enzymes).
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> Since then, the ProCollagen III Peptide test was developed, which will test
> for indications of exactly the type of damage that MTX can cause.
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> See above.
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> There have been plenty, down the years ; my dose is 20mg per week,
> considered medium high, but I've been on it for 20 years, and at 47,
> hopefully still have some to go. Evry time I go in for a blood test, it
> could be the end of my body's MTX tolerance...............and the end of THE
> preferred systemic treatment for severe, unmanageable P (I won't go into the
> fact taht the disease becomes addicted to, and entirely dependant on, MTX ;
> one of it's least attractive side-effects).
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> I've had 5 (up until 1998), but the blood test seems to have taken over
> universally now.
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--
Chuck
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