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Monday, October 11, 2004I've been reading about the Cox-2 inhibitors, and the entire thing depresses me. I took Vioxx for four years, and the only problem I had was an irregular heartbeat - that I had before I started taking Vioxx (my doctor prescribed a half of a 50mg tablet of Atenolol - it stabilized my heartrate at about 62, my blood pressure at about 120/65). I've been switched to Bextra, which may or may not be any "better". I can't take Celebrex for the same reason I can't take Motrin or aspirin - I end up with a massive nosebleed that takes five or six hours to stabilize, and I lose about a pint of blood. With a bad neck (degenerative problems at C3-T1, a two-level fusion at C-4/C5, C5/C6, an internal annulus at C4, C6, and C7, bone spurs, and degeneration to the disks at C4, C6, C7, and T1); facet joint at 12 locations between C4 and L5, a herniated disk at L5-S1, bulging disks at L3-4, L4-5, evidence of an old break at T12, some bone spurs at various other places, and something that's causing myofascial pain in the Thoracic region, I want something that will make my day livable, not constantly filled with pain. I also don't want to be so doped up I don't know what I'm doing, which is what the Oxycontin I took for eight months did to me. ...I've faced deadly threats before, and frequently without my prior consent. I'd rather take a few minor risks than hurt. I wish that some of the people making these extreme decisions could feel what I feel for a few days - it may change their opinion. Unfortunately, like the punch line in the old anti-doctor joke, "funny, I didn't feel a thing", neither do those who make a lot of these arbitrary rules. Exactly. posted by Sydney on 10/11/2004 08:24:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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