I'm a 14 year old with RA prescribed with pred 7.5 every other day, celebre!

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If you are taking methotrexate, then you are also having monthly bloodwork done to monitor your liver functions. While highly effective in the treatment of RA and certain cancers, methotrexate does take a toll on one's liver, and your rheumatologist would have told this to you or your parents before prescribing mtx. He also would have explained that methotrexate -- taken along with ibuprofen or acetaminophen, among others -- increases the chance for liver failure. Adding alcohol to any of these or your other meds just ups the recipe for disaster. Why take that chance?

There are plenty of other ways to be a normal teenager, but please, don't add unprotected sex to the mix. Methotrexate also increases the risk of birth defects, and is used in some countries for inducing abortion. While I do understand your desire to live a normal life, you have a serious illness, so mature decisions involving your health are vital in living as normally as possible.

One advantage to taking methotrexate is that you can use it as an excuse to escape a lot of peer pressure. Friends encouraging you to drink? Boyfriend pushing you to have sex? Simply explain that you can't, "because of the meds." True friends will understand, and I promise you that by not drinking, you aren't missing out on a thing. I went through a flaming youth, and at 47 years of age, the irresponsibility of those years is about the only thing I look back upon with regret.


Oh, I need to add that the cure for liver failure comes in two forms: liver transplantation, or death. Please, don't even consider taking a drink.

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6 years with RA
6 years on 20 mgs methotrexate weekly

Methotrexate is for the treatment of cancer. I really think you should not be drinking alcohol if you have
Cancer. At 14 it is not a normal teenage thing to do to drink alcohol. In fact it is illegal if you are living in the USA. In some parts you must be 18 and some parts you must be 21.

Not all teenagers feel the need to experience drinking alcohol and you really don't need to either. There are millions of other things to experience as a teenager. Set your standards higher than that.
Never mix alcohol with meds. Ever.

NO, it's not okay. 1.) NEVER mix alcohol with meds. 2.) You're WAY too young to drink.