Or just live with the pain!
My dad had to take a similar course of action.
He has had arthritis since he was my age (34).
Now he is in pain most of the time and doesn't know what he should take.
Your heart will explode, but you won't feel pain....
This patient thinks that the FDA/Pharma complex has become way too cozy.
FDA funding now comes directly from pharmaceutical companies, and they get no further funding from drugs that they do not approve.
When a drug company enrolls a new product for FDA approval, they also hand over $500,000 for oversight expenses, and they keep handing over more and more money until the drug is either approved or terminated.
The FDA is not an independent body. They routinely gag investigators who raise alarms about new products.
That is EXACTLY how the Vioxx episode occurred. The people in the FDA who were against its approval were ordered to shut up.
Abolish the FDA.
Trial lawyers are the scum of the earth, but at least they are independent of the pharmaceutical companies.
Sad to say, drug regulation by lawsuit is a lot more honest and effective than drug regulation by the FDA.
Holy Crap!
bttt
Stick to a glass of wine and a couple of Advils.
Unfortunately many Americans do not realize (with their instant-gratification minds) that their is virtue in suffering.
Placebo Group: .75 cardiovascular adverse events per 100 patient years
NSAID Group: 1.49 cardiovascular adverse events per 100 patient years
No matter how you cut it, those incidence rates are both extremely low. I think it's offensive that media-induced hysteria will result in many patients living in terrible pain for years because they cannot or will not take this medication.
Don't buy the meds the drugs companies push on us. Look for alternatives. You get old and the body does not work the way it once did, thats just the way things are. That being said, if I were older and had chronic pain I don't think I'd stop the Vioxx or whatever, just moderate it.
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Anyone taking aspirin to protect against coronary artery (heart) disease as well as any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug(NSAID), including Celebrex or Bextra, for any reason, should take the aspirin, preferably with food, at least one hour before that other drug.
Why bother thinking.
New Thinkabrexx is coming on the market!
in it's generic form, it's call cogitatix.
How about Bauer Aspirin?
This is how I look at it:
They did a dual test with Vioxx and Celebrex. Vioxx caused real problems compared to celebrex.
They tested Aleve against Celebrex and discovered Aleve caused problems.
They tested very high doses of Celebrex and discovered problems - in one test, and a similar, but not identical test earlier found no such problems.
My conclusions:
Celebrex is safer than Vioxx
Celebrex may be safer than Aleve (and certainly is to my tummy)
Large doses of Celebrex may be dangerous.
Doses of most NSAIDS may, at some dosage level, prove as a group, to cause heart problems.
I take Celebrex at the 100mg dose, and in the winter, especially, I need it for arthritis.
Unless they take it off the market, I am not giving it up.
There is no real evidence that it is any more dangerous than a number of other NSAIDs at normal dosages, and in fact, looks safter than a number of them.
The pain in my hands really sucks bad. Narcotics like Loritabs give me a problem with my biliary system. It takes a lot of pain to make me reach for one, knowing that I will have chest pain later if I have to take it very long.
So, I will continue with it, and know that sometimes you are trading off when you take meds for problems...