Right, well, when I'd been given the methotrexate I felt like I'd just been told to take it and given a leaflet and hardly been given any information about it. I hadn't even been aware that I was meant to take it with food and when I got to the chemist after, for the first time, I thought, 'Oh the consultant didn't say that' and I said to her 'Are you meant to take this medication with food?'. And she didn't know and she looked at the leaflet and said 'Oh I can't see anything about it here'.
So to start with I wasn't taking it with food and when I got the information from the Internet it said take it with food. Which I think is quite important because obviously, you know, there's always the possibility of stomach ulcers and things like that if, you know, it does irritate the stomach if not taken properly. So I hadn't been aware of that.
I hadn't also been aware that to take folic acid with it can, is useful and can stop just minor symptoms like mouth ulcers, that was on the leaflet and when I suggested that to my local GP he said 'Yes, that would be useful'. And it mentioned other things like it's quite useful to have a flu vaccine. Again, which I, I only had from that sheet, so that I felt there was quite significant information. Also how the drug itself worked that it, that it, I think it kills off certain white cells, in your body so it, to sort of suppress the immune system to a certain extent. So it was useful to know what the drug was and how it was working yes. |
