I was generally feeling unwell, as though I'd been drinking, not, feeling sleepy and dizzy basically. No other, but generally not feeling well in my head. Feeling, all the time feeling very, as though you'd been drinking. You didn't feel focused at all. That was the only, the only one which I couldn't handle and I was, I wasn't on the maximum amount of medication at that time. I think I was on about 6 a day and it had to be, yeah it was 6, was it 6 a day? I'm just, I'm just confused about how many I was taking but I certainly wasn't on the maximum, maximum dose and obviously I thought well if they've got to be increased there's no way I'm going to continue taking those. And I'd like sort of an alternative medication.
I was on medication for about 12 months. 12 months, I would think. But obviously not up to the, to the maximum amount that I had to take them, because of the fact of how I was feeling, it was probably after 2 or 3 months I did I was finding the, once I'd increased them from the starting, the 2 tablets per day up to about 6, is when I obviously I was a bit concerned and thought well I can't go on as I was going on with the, with how I was feeling generally. I know with all medication you do get side effects but some you can tolerate and some, some you cannot. And I hate feeling, feeling sort of dizzy or heady, 'cos you don't just feel like, able to, your able to do anything.
So did you go back to your GP?
No, I didn't go back to I did actually go to my GP but he didn't say leave them off entirely. Just to carry on the dose I was, until I was referred, until I had my appointment at the at [hospital name]. And the lady I don't know if she was a consultant, no she was the under-study for the consultant, I forget the lady's name but, she said well I think we ought to try methotrexate and, as I said, I was reluctant to but I think on hindsight it was probably the best, best thing I did. |
