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From what my surgeon has told me celebrex is out unless you take another

medicine to counteract the effect and i'm sorry but right now i can't remember

what that is. Luckily I haven't taken celebrex since 3 weeks before my surgery

and I'm doing pretty well. I had been on it for years and would have to take

blood tests every 6 months to check my liver. If you do take it, please only

take under your doctors supervision as with any medication and have regular

blood tests to make sure your doing well.

Laurette

4/23/04 open rny

309/290/237/150

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Hi, sorry to intrude.

I have had to take vioxx and the last two days everything bad in the world

has been said about it's side effects. They say those side effects are 3x

higher than in regular pain meds. Other than that I have to take 10 mg

Lortap 2x a day (and that's not enough).

You have mentioned Celebrex, just my husband took it a while back and he had

a reaction to it (Heat in the face, increased heart rate,

breathing difficulties), so I'm not sure.....

JJ

-- Celebrex

To the person who asked about this: actually, my doctors seem to

think it's not a problem, and I don't really either. NSAIDs like

motrin (which contains ibuprofen), yes, can cause gastrointestinal

bleeding. Celebrex is an NSAID. However, it goes above and beyond

the normal NSAID's broad selectivity: it's a cox-2 inhibitor.

Studies have shown that cox-2 inhibitors (like Celebrex and Vioxx)

tend not to have the same influence on gastro-intestinal bleeding as

NSAIDs. However, the jury's still out as far as how much doctors

should be concerned about their behavior.

Since aerobic exercise, for me, is next to impossible without

Celebrex, and I've not got a history of ulcers or any other gastro-

intestinal issues, he approved my orthopedic surgeon's prescription.

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Oh, indeed. I'm being even more stringent about taking it only when

I have pain (they recommend a 100 mg dose daily, I take it 4 days per

week instead). In addition, I think it's worth mentioning again that

it's up for debate about how safe it is: different gastric bypass

surgeons have different feelings about it (although most surgeons,

from my impression, seem to think it's safe enough to take, since it

isn't nearly as associated with dyspepsia), and no conclusive studies

(that I'm aware of) have been done with gastric bypass patients to

see how cox-2 inhibitors affect them.

I'll bet the reason you were getting your liver checked out (through

blood tests) is because NSAIDS can have hepatotoxicity properties,

and celebrex has been responsible for a few cases of hepatitis. But

it's pretty rare to have that happen.

Leah

> From what my surgeon has told me celebrex is out unless you take

another

> medicine to counteract the effect and i'm sorry but right now i

can't remember

> what that is. Luckily I haven't taken celebrex since 3 weeks

before my surgery

> and I'm doing pretty well. I had been on it for years and would

have to take

> blood tests every 6 months to check my liver. If you do take it,

please only

> take under your doctors supervision as with any medication and have

regular

> blood tests to make sure your doing well.

> Laurette

> 4/23/04 open rny

> 309/290/237/150

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No problem.

Yeah there are common side effects like water retention, and my

roommate took it once for her hip and broke out into hives, which

wasn't listed as a not-so-common side effect on the drug info. But

the only way you know how you're going to react to a drug is by

taking it. I haven't had any adverse reactions yet, and I've been

taking it for about a month.

One thing, though, that just came out in the news, is that cox-2

inhibitors can increase your risk of heart attack by something like

50%. I haven't read enough about it yet, so I don't know what the

deal is.

> Hi, sorry to intrude.

> I have had to take vioxx and the last two days everything bad in

the world

> has been said about it's side effects. They say those side effects

are 3x

> higher than in regular pain meds. Other than that I have to take 10

mg

> Lortap 2x a day (and that's not enough).

> You have mentioned Celebrex, just my husband took it a while back

and he had

> a reaction to it (Heat in the face, increased heart rate,

> breathing difficulties), so I'm not sure.....

> JJ

> -- Celebrex

>

> To the person who asked about this: actually, my doctors seem to

> think it's not a problem, and I don't really either. NSAIDs like

> motrin (which contains ibuprofen), yes, can cause gastrointestinal

> bleeding. Celebrex is an NSAID. However, it goes above and beyond

> the normal NSAID's broad selectivity: it's a cox-2 inhibitor.

> Studies have shown that cox-2 inhibitors (like Celebrex and Vioxx)

> tend not to have the same influence on gastro-intestinal bleeding

as

> NSAIDs. However, the jury's still out as far as how much doctors

> should be concerned about their behavior.

>

> Since aerobic exercise, for me, is next to impossible without

> Celebrex, and I've not got a history of ulcers or any other gastro-

> intestinal issues, he approved my orthopedic surgeon's prescription.

>

>

>

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i stopped taking my celabex a couple of months ago.. the doc and work was not

happy about it ( had work injury) but i told them i could not take them anymore

due to this surgery and i wanted to see how my knee pain was going to be without

it

shirley of fontan socal

Babydollbbw3@... wrote:

From what my surgeon has told me celebrex is out unless you take another

medicine to counteract the effect and i'm sorry but right now i can't remember

what that is. Luckily I haven't taken celebrex since 3 weeks before my surgery

and I'm doing pretty well. I had been on it for years and would have to take

blood tests every 6 months to check my liver. If you do take it, please only

take under your doctors supervision as with any medication and have regular

blood tests to make sure your doing well.

Laurette

4/23/04 open rny

309/290/237/150

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my doc from my work injury said that if i had to keep taking the celebex that he

would be doing liver test and my regular doc said the same thing ...it's your

own personal choice to take these meds mine is to not do it ,,,,,,,

shirley of fontana socal

leahspencer75 wrote:

Oh, indeed. I'm being even more stringent about taking it only when

I have pain (they recommend a 100 mg dose daily, I take it 4 days per

week instead). In addition, I think it's worth mentioning again that

it's up for debate about how safe it is: different gastric bypass

surgeons have different feelings about it (although most surgeons,

from my impression, seem to think it's safe enough to take, since it

isn't nearly as associated with dyspepsia), and no conclusive studies

(that I'm aware of) have been done with gastric bypass patients to

see how cox-2 inhibitors affect them.

I'll bet the reason you were getting your liver checked out (through

blood tests) is because NSAIDS can have hepatotoxicity properties,

and celebrex has been responsible for a few cases of hepatitis. But

it's pretty rare to have that happen.

Leah

> From what my surgeon has told me celebrex is out unless you take

another

> medicine to counteract the effect and i'm sorry but right now i

can't remember

> what that is. Luckily I haven't taken celebrex since 3 weeks

before my surgery

> and I'm doing pretty well. I had been on it for years and would

have to take

> blood tests every 6 months to check my liver. If you do take it,

please only

> take under your doctors supervision as with any medication and have

regular

> blood tests to make sure your doing well.

> Laurette

> 4/23/04 open rny

> 309/290/237/150

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