Urgent help needed - Norovirus and Methotrexate

RA girl

Hi there,
I'm hoping someone can help me. I have rheumatoid arthritis and am on methotrexate injection once a week. I contracted the norovirus last week and fainted twice with it, I was so sick. My symptoms subsided after 24 hours, but I still feel an absolute wreck.
My GP came on four days ago and told me that my immune system is so low it's probably just taking so much out of me to fight the infection, so told me to stay in bed for two days. It's four days later now, the symptoms of the virus came back yesterday and lasted a day again, but I'm still as weak as a kitten and need help leaving the bed to go to the toilet!! I've never felt so low in my whole life. My GP also said, not to inject myself this week to give my immune system a chance to fight this infection.
I'm at my wits end here, any advice on how to build myself back up again? I've two small children that are being looked after by my very kind family at the moment

Saila

you will have lost plenty of fluids from this so take more water than usual and build up the electrolytes in your system too as these will have been affected from severe diahorea, ask in the chemist. this is advice purely for someone who has had this and I have not accounted for your illness's in it, best check with the GP on any problems which might complicate things. a quick phone call if you are on good terms with them

sam34

hi op


you need to speak to your pharmacist and / or doctor to see what's suitable for you.