I'm sorry to read you lost two babies. It must be so terribly heart-breaking. But don't give up... I'm sure there's a little miracle for you just waiting to happen. Your journal is truly inspiring and I really admire your courage.
Yes, MTX is excellent at stopping the RA, but highly dangerous for baby when TTC, while pregnant, or if breastfeeding. It has actually been used as a drug to bring on a miscarriage (abortion) and can severely deform unborn babies. Scary stuff!
Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by serum-negative?
It basically means that the doctors are completely stumped at putting a name to what I have. My blood tests show no rheumatoid factors, just indicators that there is an inflammatory process taking place in my body. So I have joint pains and swelling with no easily discernible cause, but no joint deformities and no permanent joint damage occuring.
I think the name they put to it is serum-negative rheumatoid polyarthritis, or something like that. It's med-speak for I hurt, and nobody knows exactly why or what I've got.
For now, we continue to take it all one step at a time...
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