Anyone else have sore teeth after methotrexate?

Hey all,
Just wondering if anyone else gets sore teeth after methotrexate day? I woke up this morning with a swollen sore jaw on one side, and my tragus piercing (10 years old!) has gotten all swollen and infected on the other side! Hahaha that along with my crippling back pain would actually drive anyone to drink....... even though I cant even drink much hahaha! Seriously sometimes with this disease I think we get thrown one thing after another, and it just aint fair! Anyone else have any hair loss? I used to have lovely long thick curly hair thankfully, as I have lost so much of it over the last 2/5 years it is so so scary. I try not to stress about it but I miss my lovely hair, shallow I know! Also eye/ear/mouth/nose/other area dryness?????? Thanks x

Hi Laney84,
Ahh these are the lovely bodily functions of an MCTD sufferer!
I have been getting toothache aswell & wasn't sure if there was a connection with that to MCTD, however I never thought there might be a connection with MTX. Maybe you have an absess in your face which is why it's swollen?
I suffer a little bit of hair loss too. Not much can be done about that unfortunately.
You're not shallow! Why should you lose your hair to this damned disease!
I got stretch marks on my beautiful legs after a steroid infusion, I was so depressed & people thought I was being shallow & said they have stretch marks rom having children. I said yeah great, at least you have a beautiful child from it, I got nothing, the infusion didn't even work! So tell me how that's fair!?
Dont worry I understand. You need to see a DR about the swelling or at least the dentist.

Thanks for the reply,
I deffo think teeth problems are related to being on immunosuppressents for a long periods of time! just another thing to add to the list. omfg your stretch marks on your legs have just reminded me of my big huge (2 inch+) dent/hole in my lower back (right side) the stupid nurse gave me a double shot of steroids (2 high for 1 area and the dumb female dog injected me in the wrong area..........) i have it 2 years now and has not gotten better, went back to the consultant and he was such a prick about it.... ggggrrrrrrr it makes me so angry i have to try not and think about it, i am deformed for life because of their stupidity! lucky i like high waisted bikinis sorry for cursing, if it offends anyone but i am irish and it tends to slip out often..... and i am not sorry really! hahaha thanks for the reply! also have you tried biooil for the stretch marks? i tried it for like 4-5 months.... made the hole nice and shiney but thats about it!

hahahaha omfg it changed the word beeaattchh into femal dog how funny!

I was literally wetting myself with laughter at these post replies! I changed a lot of the swear words for a more polite version just for giggles. So a few suprises haha.
Don't worry about your cursing! I'm from south London & my dads ex army so I can have my poison mouth when I want.
I can't believe that about the hole in the back!!!?? That is so bad!! Arseholes!
I made a complaint about my stretch marks & the DR went 'oh yeah that might be a side affect' AFTER I'd had it! I was like jeex thanks for telling me! They can be useless sometimes I suppose we just gotta focus on the good DRs.
As to Bio oil - I thought it was poop!

Apprently I forgot about arseholes though as a swear word

hahaha yea complaining over here does not really seem to have any effect does it! i had such a horrid time with the nhs i try and avoid them, got all my proper diagnosis in ireland, i didnt expect the nhs to be so poor but it is really shocking. haha i love the changing curse words good idea haha i know for a fact some americans dont like cursing as i was in r.a forums and other autoimmune forums before this and had a few scoldings haha! each one to there own and all that jazz! what course are you planning on doing?

Haha this is hilarious! I feel like putting a ton of swear words on just to see what it changes it to!

I have been to the dentist a few times for what I thought was gum problems. Turns out I have been grinding my teeth hard, but I cant wear my mouth guard because my TMJ pain flares! I also get mouth ulcers due to the methotrexate. My rheumy suggested doubling my folic acid during those times. I just find im really wiped out every Sunday (I take methotrexate Saturday night)
poop
female dog

haha yes those two words at the end was me testing!

hahaha poop female dog indeed haha! yea i take my folic acid every day bar inj day and i find it helps as i used to get horrid migranes and stuff and mouth ulcers also.......... but then again at the time i was on full whack tramadol, and oxynorm and oramorph at night so i was in a bad way with other side effects haha! off all them now thankfully it was hard to come off but had to be done i was like a zombie for over a year!

I've never really had any side affects with MTX (lucky me) but I know others have had severe side affects. I heard increasing the folic acid dosage helps too.
The NHS is pretty crap. I don't know why I even put up with it most of the time. Oh right yeah because there's no other option
My teeth hurt all the time but I don't really get ulcers, when I asked the dentist he said the tendons etc. in my jaws & gums were flaring like in my body!
Not so sure about this.....
my gums bleed a lot too with no cause, I have healthy teeth. anyone else get this?

sorry for the delay i had my dissertation and revision then exams! free now haha teeth wise yea mine always always bleed! never before the methotrexate! wow you are lucky with the no side effects the tablets were horrid for me! and as for the nhs i have had another run in with them! so glad to be irish!

hi kat kat, hows the extra folic acid working?