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Should I Continue With Remicade For Rheumatoid Arthritis While Suffering From Melanoma?

i have Ra,allergies that have just developed.past breast cancer,neoplasm of other breast,melanoma on face,leg and chest,pseudo gout,osteopina,tietze disease,.The past 3 weeks my blood work work has shown my mvc count up to 105.9,platelets 488 red-count has gone down to 4.9 my white is 9.3.My rhumatoligist asked me with concern about my alcohol intake . I dont drink..Iam slowly getting more exsauted by the day! allergies to all omni test were positive ,I have food test in two weeks,they also ran 6 autoimmune blood test. Please help what do you sugest i ask/tell my doctors.I have Primary,Rhumo.,allergy and cardio docand pulminary all working with me & each other Im only 50 yrs old but my battles of illnes keep getting worst( i did have ecoli in october and it seems that was harder to kick than all my cancer surguries and the reconstructions) I do get remicade for my ra w/out it i suffer with all over inflamation in every joint.Please help!:)
Tue, 1 Apr 2014
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I think you should not take remicade in active melanoma, as it may flare and uncontrolled.
You need to see a oncologist and only after full treatment of melanoma, you can take remicade
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Should I Continue With Remicade For Rheumatoid Arthritis While Suffering From Melanoma?

Hi I think you should not take remicade in active melanoma, as it may flare and uncontrolled. You need to see a oncologist and only after full treatment of melanoma, you can take remicade regards