Hi all, I'm new here so I apologise if this is posted in the wrong place.
I have inflammatory arthritis/ankylosing spondylitis and I am currently taking methotrexate and humira once every 2 weeks for it which is working amazingly even though I have only been on humira for 8 weeks.
At the same time, humira seems to have cleared up all of my stomach symptoms that I have been ignoring for years which makes me think that the stomach issues could be related to the arthritis or inflammatory in nature.
I've always assumed that my gastro issues are IBS with urgent diarrhoea, mucus in stool, fatigue, stomach pain, cold sweat/chills when stomach pain is bad, and fatigue (could also be related to arthritis) which seem to come in flares. So I will be fine for a month or 2 then have a week of a bad stomach then be fine again. Things improved with methotrexate and seem to have completely resolved with humira except when I was late on humira by a week and my stomach and joints got bad again. The pain seems to get worse after eating and is pretty central in my abdomen.
I have never had elevated inflammatory markers (seronegative arthritis) nor blood in my stool which is making me question IBD.
I have told rheumatology and I'm waiting to hear back what they think but my biologics nurse reckons that I need to be seen by gastroenterology. Does this sound similar to what anyone else has experienced?
TIA
J
I have inflammatory arthritis/ankylosing spondylitis and I am currently taking methotrexate and humira once every 2 weeks for it which is working amazingly even though I have only been on humira for 8 weeks.
At the same time, humira seems to have cleared up all of my stomach symptoms that I have been ignoring for years which makes me think that the stomach issues could be related to the arthritis or inflammatory in nature.
I've always assumed that my gastro issues are IBS with urgent diarrhoea, mucus in stool, fatigue, stomach pain, cold sweat/chills when stomach pain is bad, and fatigue (could also be related to arthritis) which seem to come in flares. So I will be fine for a month or 2 then have a week of a bad stomach then be fine again. Things improved with methotrexate and seem to have completely resolved with humira except when I was late on humira by a week and my stomach and joints got bad again. The pain seems to get worse after eating and is pretty central in my abdomen.
I have never had elevated inflammatory markers (seronegative arthritis) nor blood in my stool which is making me question IBD.
I have told rheumatology and I'm waiting to hear back what they think but my biologics nurse reckons that I need to be seen by gastroenterology. Does this sound similar to what anyone else has experienced?
TIA
J