I am on folate, Trillian. The rheumy suggested the 5mg folate tablets, but when DH said we still had 0.5mg tablets in the house left over from IVF treatment, my rheumy said it would be fine to take them. However, after the reading I have done today, DH has been sent out to get the 5mg tablets for me. My rheumy said to take the folate every day, so I will certainly question him about that next time I see him. It's not unusual for me to have horrendous side effects in the initial stages of taking a drug - the previous arthritis drug was absolute hell getting onto it, but after than initial stage, I had no trouble with it at all, until it stopped working. I know that for me, it's way too soon to say it's not worth it. I need to get up to the maximum dosage and then give it a few weeks to get used to it before we write off this experiment and try something else.

The good news is that this time, apart from the hellish nausea I went to bed with last night I'm actually doing relatively ok today. There's been no more nausea and I actually woke up at 7am instead of 11am. Still fairly tired, but nowhere near as bad as last weekend. I think it will be more telling if I'm feeling ok tomorrow or whether I'm still fairly wiped out, but I really am doing much better this time. I still couldn't feed Sam overnight, but DH was around for that - we just have to make sure he is!

The water consumption - noted. I probably don't drink anywhere near enough anyway... off to get more now.

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