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    Joint/Back pain on 6MP - what drug next?

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    Joint/Back pain on 6MP - what drug next?

    Hi Hokiepoker - I am in Australia and I had the exact same reaction to Imuran in 2011!! I posted a thread to try and find anyone else who had a similar reaction. I found it very difficult to get medical staff to believe it was the Imuran until I couldn't walk two hours after taking it, then it...
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    Mercaptopurine & Back Pain

    I recently had an X-ray of part of my hip that showed up the coccyx fracture and x rays of my hip last year which didn't show the stress fracture in my sacrum. That only showed on MRI, I kept turning up to emergency saying "I can't walk" and they wouldn't listen cause the x-ray didn't show...
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    Mercaptopurine & Back Pain

    Well I just recently had a PQCT scan - I'm assuming that was normal? I've had two DXA scans since the start of 2011 when I started steroids. The second was slightly lower but not significantly
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    Mercaptopurine & Back Pain

    Hi all I'm back - a year later LOL! Long story short - in Sept last year the doctor at the public hospital pulled his finger out and finally ordered an MRI of my spine. Low and behold I had a STRESS FRACTURE in my sacrum. This was after another doctor told me it was definitely the 6mp causing...
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    Mercaptopurine & Back Pain

    Thanks for the replies everyone. I stopped the 6MP last Wednesday and sure enough the back pain has subsided. So has the constant somnolence. So it looks like it could be the 6MP. I have to stay off it for six weeks. I'm 29, so if I use methotrexate I have to say goodbye to having kids. That...
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    Mercaptopurine & Back Pain

    Hey all, I'm new to the forum from Oz, just trying to get some feedback from anyone experienced with 6mp (Mercaptopurine). I believe I'm having a reaction to the drug but my doctors don't seem to want to listen to me. I was diagnosed with Crohn's this year. Long story short, I reacted to...
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