In their original study with 3 patients, the Norwegian cancer doctors used Methotrexate on at least one, with some benefits. It seems that other ME patients have used this drug too, and it's commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis as well as other auto-immune diseases.
See links below. In the second, the person recovered after 40 years of ME after being treated with an anti-viral and Methotrexate.
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/archive/index.php/t-6111.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze16suma/id10.html
Perhaps there are others amongst us who have been given this drug for other conditions. Does anyone have any experience? Did your ME improve?
It might be easier for us to persuade a doctor to put us on this if we wanted to try this sort of treatment before the results of further trials are out, given that it's an oral drug.
(The Norwegians did seem to imply it may not be as effective as Rituximab though.)
Jenny
See links below. In the second, the person recovered after 40 years of ME after being treated with an anti-viral and Methotrexate.
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/archive/index.php/t-6111.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze16suma/id10.html
Perhaps there are others amongst us who have been given this drug for other conditions. Does anyone have any experience? Did your ME improve?
It might be easier for us to persuade a doctor to put us on this if we wanted to try this sort of treatment before the results of further trials are out, given that it's an oral drug.
(The Norwegians did seem to imply it may not be as effective as Rituximab though.)
Jenny