Richard Erickson, MD, Colorado Permanente Medical Group. I am 44 year old female diagonosed with Rheumatoid Arthritus last March. Fall weather has arrived and my shoulder is back to its old tricks. Lodine is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug such as alleve or advil. It can have effects on your stomach, your, liver, your kidney and you platelets.
Patients can take it continuously or as needed.
As long as you are under a doctor's care, there should not be concern about taking it routinely. Kathryn Ferrell Hobbs, M.D., Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. I hope you can help with this question. Both methotrexate and arava are associated with elevated liver tests in some individuals. The alkaline phosphatase result that you describe I assume is elevated.