As some of you know, my almost 17 year old son Badger had some symptoms of a flare in June. He had an MRE which showed some minor changes/concerns so we upped his MTX to 30 mg/week from 25.
He had another MRE in late October and the results were nearly identical. His labs have been perfect except for his ferritin which has a slow leak. He has absolutely no symptoms.
So we are leaving him at the higher dose of MTX and doing watchful waiting. And continuing low level iron supplements.
I am so pleased - he was 5'8" at his last appointment. I know he is to although he is too cool to show it. He had significant growth failure at diagnosis and for the first 5 years grew not at all or only a little. So it's exciting to see him growing like this.
He had another MRE in late October and the results were nearly identical. His labs have been perfect except for his ferritin which has a slow leak. He has absolutely no symptoms.
So we are leaving him at the higher dose of MTX and doing watchful waiting. And continuing low level iron supplements.
I am so pleased - he was 5'8" at his last appointment. I know he is to although he is too cool to show it. He had significant growth failure at diagnosis and for the first 5 years grew not at all or only a little. So it's exciting to see him growing like this.