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It’s not so much that folate is recommended because someone has a diagnosis of RA, it’s because it’s a requirement for patients on Methotrexate to mitigate side effects. MTX depletes folate which can lead to fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and mouth sores, so taking it alongside MTX helps patients better tolerate the drug.
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Correct about ascorbic acid - but methotrexate can have other serious side effects. I couldn’t take it at the beginning .. liver. Now, decades later I could ( to better support Biological Orencia ) for over a year - then it hit the liver again . So off of it . Altria’s another dressed modifier but it gave me such bad ‘fog brain’ I stopped. At a loss now - so is RA Dr! 😢