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Please be careful with Hydroxychloroquine. It has a 30 day or more half life (the range of days is based on how well you metabolize the drug) which means if you take one pill today it takes 30+ days for half of it to be out of your system. To get it down to where it is considered completely out of your system it normally takes 5 half lives - 150+ days. My first Rheumatologist wanted me on Hydroxychloroquine and I declined because of the half life facts and the known side effects. Prednisone has a 3-4 hour half life for comparison.

You can read up on any drug at Drugs.com - it has a lot of god information for patients on drugs.

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Thank you. I discovered that it takes 3 months for Hydroxychloroquine to get out of my system. When I decided I wasn’t going to take it anymore my doctor asked me to consider taking methotrexate instead. She indicated that I couldn’t start it for three months after Hydroxychloroquine was out of my system. After researching Methotrexate I decided against that option. There are way to many unpleasant side effects.