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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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It’s s okay medicine caused gastrointestinal issues ; and hair loss for me will ask my doctor to take me off ASAP I personally don’t like it and it caused me to feel numb as well
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Reviewer: 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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I was on this for about 12 months when I experienced numbness in all of my toes and now have permanent nerve damage .
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Reviewer: dott, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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I have been on 20mg since Dec. 2016. It has helped tremendously. I still have achey knees, but not enough for pain relief. I do feel a little spacey at times. Blood pressure has been in normal range. I also take Sulfasalazine 500mg twice daily.
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Reviewer: Rosie, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Taking 10 mg. I did feel dizzy at first, but getting use to it. Also my BP has also been 90/60 range it is now at 110/70 which is till WNL. I also take 5 mg of Prednisone for my Interstitial lung disease caused by RA.
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Reviewer: Steve W, 55-64 on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I take 10mg of this with 2x 200mg hydroxychloroquine. (Started with methotrexate but caused blood problems) It took quite a while to get leflunomide in my system for any effect. I was given steroid injections initially to help with the RA pain as the hydroxychloroquine is losing it's effect.Whilst it seemed to help eventually, I have been taking it now for a little over 5 months. I have develo
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