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Does methotrexate cause lupus?

Question:

Drugs sometimes induce lupus. Is methotrexate one of them? Can someone point me to a list of the 72+ drugs which cause lupus? Please email me your reply as well as posting. Thanks very much. Katherine Take the zzz’s out to email me, please.

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 This is the frist time I hear that drugs can cause lupus. I would like to know this as well. So please email me to. K Williams wrote in article … – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Drugs sometimes induce lupus. Is methotrexate one of them? Can someone >point me to a list of the 72+ drugs which cause lupus? >Please email me your reply as well as posting. Thanks very much. >Katherine >Take the zzz’s out to email me, please.

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K Williams wrote: > Drugs sometimes induce lupus. Is methotrexate one of them? Can someone > point me to a list of the 72+ drugs which cause lupus? > I have heard that some drugs cause a false positive.  Don’t know if they > can actually cause lupus.  I’d be interested in this information as I am > currently taking Methotrexate.  I have Inflamatory Arthritis with an > overlap of RA and Lupus.  I started MTX this summer and I feel so much > better.  I give myself injections.  I took plaquenil for 8 years and was > nauseated everyday.  With the MTX injections I am ill for a day or two > and then I am fine.

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Before I was diagnosed with lupus, one of the high blood pressure medications I took briefly is said to cause "drug-induced lupus".  Drug induced lupus is supposed to go away when the drug is discontinued.  I don’t know what "the list" includes, but yes, some drugs can induce at least a temporay lupus. debbie mason debma…@rkymtnhi.com

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