Hi all,
I'm just wondering what people have experienced and been told by their doctors about methotrexate (mtx) and alcohol.
I'm currently on 20mg mtx subcutaneously/week, and have only recently been able to get my social life back on track, the question is how much alcohol should we be able to tolerate whilst in methotrexate? I'm lucky that my Liver Function Tests (LFTs) have always been great with just the medications.
My GP said I should tolerate 1 or 2, but no more than 3 standard drinks. Thinking back to a few weeks ago I've probably had 4 without any noticeable problems, but we'll be checking the next LFTs to make sure that's still good, which would be the first place to show any issues I'm told.
Of course as with unimpeded alcohol tolerance results will vary, I'm just interested to see what others have found
Stefan
I'm just wondering what people have experienced and been told by their doctors about methotrexate (mtx) and alcohol.
I'm currently on 20mg mtx subcutaneously/week, and have only recently been able to get my social life back on track, the question is how much alcohol should we be able to tolerate whilst in methotrexate? I'm lucky that my Liver Function Tests (LFTs) have always been great with just the medications.
My GP said I should tolerate 1 or 2, but no more than 3 standard drinks. Thinking back to a few weeks ago I've probably had 4 without any noticeable problems, but we'll be checking the next LFTs to make sure that's still good, which would be the first place to show any issues I'm told.
Of course as with unimpeded alcohol tolerance results will vary, I'm just interested to see what others have found
Stefan