I am in week 4 of starting azathioprine (Imuran).
I ran across the same website while researching the drug. It sounded like a lot of people had skin issues.
So I would be curious also if others have had issues relating to warts, skin cancers, tags, etc. while on aza?
I always think though people that are having issues (or unhappy with the results) tend to post on the internet more. So for that 1 person that had warts how many people haven't. Same with researching the cancer risk of aza. I kept hearing it doubles your risk. That sounds really bad and had me freaked out. But then I found a presentation on the Crohn's Foundation website that shows absolutes. So it goes from 2 in 10,000 to 4 in 10,000 for the one lymphoma. That doesn't sounds as bad.....
A co-workers wife has been taking aza for over 5 years for Crohn's. She has minimal side effects from the drug.
My side effects so far were 24/7 nausea when starting a 175 mg dose. Called GI after a week of fighting through it and he scaled it back to 50 mg. Then increasing 50 mg every two weeks until I hit 150mg. I am at 100mg now and still get nausea but it passes now. My WBC count dropped below 4 to 3.9 on my first draw though so I'll see what todays draw comes back as. I am somewhat concerned about this.