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I am taking 10 mg methotrexate weekly for a connective tissue disease. amazingly, it is controlling my lightheadedness/dizziness. why do you think?
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Possibly: If your ctd had any CNS (brain or neurologic) involvement, then controlling the disease with mtx would improve those symptoms.
Answered 1/23/2019
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