Stopping Enbrel and methotrexate did not lead to significant immediate autoimmune flare-ups.

“I stopped taking the Enbrel in the methotrexate because I didn't think they were working they obviously hadn't been working that effectively or I wouldn't have needed a hip innate hip an ankle replacement so I stopped and so I was always kind of aggravated by that being like well I was sick all the time because if you're on immune suppressants you just catch everything so I had something like bronchitis just constantly so I was always irritated about taking the medications so I was pretty happy to just stop and I was like I want to monitor my flare-ups when I start cutting things out so I'll stop taking them and just see what happens and nothing really happened when I stopped”