NSAIDS, Celebrex type drugs

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This includes aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.

I took celebrex for one month and mobic for 5 months, and tho the

pain might have been less, I believe I went downhill more rapidly, in

retrospect. My left knee started taking the brunt from the hip, so to

speak. When I finally got an xray the cartilege in rt hip was gone.

I started reading this board and discovered there is a controversy

regarding these drugs, and I stopped taking them. I went on crutches

and stuck to tylenol and tylenol plus codeine, or Vicodin.

Dr. DeSmet says, and I have read this elsewhere, that these drugs

wear away at the bone, make it softer. So the drug may help the

symptoms and worsen the cause. When I had the surgery he said my bone

was soft. Hopefully with weight bearing exercise that has improved.

I'm sure 3 months of crutches hadn't helped that either, tho I was

exercising on stationary bike up to the end, I didn't put much weight

on the poor hip.

Isara RBHR DeSmet July '02