I am 28 and have psioratic arthritis which is hereditary and very painful, i was on Vioxx until they pulled it, i am now on Bextra but it does not help as much as the Vioxx did. While in the Navy, I was taking 2400mg a day of Motrin a day while 25mg of Vioxx took care of the pain almost completely. I am young and relatively healthy with no family history of heart disease nor of stroke, therefor have no worries of Vioxx harming me as long as I take it as recommended. tell me that it has a very slight chance of causing problems, just like anything else in this world and then back off, let ME make a decision regaurding to my life.