thank you both of you for the response. this is all so new to me, i didn't realize that you couldn't ask your rheumi to up dosage as easy as that. well, since he has recently uped me to the 17.5 mg, i hope it will continue to relieve swelling and pain. he wanted me to go on infusions of remicade if the methotexate didn't work and i thought he would have lead way to increase the methotrexate before thinking about
infusions.