I had a shot of methotrexate May 29 to treat an ectopic. My levels dropped fast the first week but only dropped 9 points the second week. I’m at 193 as of yesterday.

I’m vegetarian so I generally rely on things really high in folate for my diet and I’m afraid that’s stopping the methotrexate from working since it works by leaching your body of folate to stop the cells from dividing.

The first week I was super nauseous so I was basically just eating vegetable broth or vegetable noodle soup, so not eating my usual chickpeas and lentils. I felt better this week and made stew with a lot of chickpeas.

I know green tea depletes folate so I started drinking 3-4 cups of that a day and I’m trying to find recipes with very low folate but am having trouble, obviously it’s more common for people to be looking at higher folate items.

Wondering if anybody knows of any good resources I might be missing? I’ll even start eating meat again if that’s what it takes. My doctor is talking about a second shot if my levels don’t go down more next week and I really don’t want that.

I just want this to be over.