Azathioprine

Azathioprine 2018-03-20 Person 4 5 0

I am taking azathioprine to calm down my immune system from attacking my body. It is so far effective and I have few issues of the disease arising/breaking through. Be aware you will need and should have a TPMT blood test that looks for a genotype in the liver that could make taking this drug harmful to you. I, unfortunately, have one of those genotypes so the Consultant has started me on a much lower dose and regular blood tests to monitor my liver, so far so good. Also, request your cholesterol levels to be done prior to taking this drug. Mine was normal and now it is raised despite best efforts with a very low fat, low sugar, oily fish and no red meat diet. That means having to take a statin. I have hot flushes and you can feel tired and fatigued. It also changed my body odour! Despite the issues it is keeping me disease free at the moment, disease-free is alive.