I have been on cox 2 inhibitors for several years. I have had no ill effects from them and they do a fantastic job for me. I started out with Vioxx and then went to Celebrex. I believe it is going on 5 years now, maybe a bit longer with a brief interruption when Vioxx was taken off the market and the doc tried a more traditional NSAID.

Hope this helps.

"C"

I have taken on average 400 mg of ibuprofen daily for 6 months straight now. I am terribly worried about the long term health problems that this may be causing me. Maybe this is needless worry.

Sometimes I think I am developing asthma or some shortness of breath symptom. But then I think it is probably just stress or panic of the whole pain/medication situation I am in.

I still take the ibuprofen because I need to get rid of the pain that I have in order to be functional and productive. But who knows what is happening with my kindeys, stomach, heart.

It really scares me to think about it.

My doctor just prescribed me another NSAID called Piroxicam (generic for Feldene) in order to see if I can get longer term relief with less pills. I have not taken one yet because I am scared to death of what might happen to me if I start taking those!!!! The doctor did prescribe me Omeprazole (generic for Prilosec) in order to start protecting my stomach. I even wonder if I should be taking those.

This is scary stuff to me; whether I should be or not is another question.

I was on Celebrex for about 3 years. Had some long-term side effects that I could not trace to anything. And they slowly were becoming more serious as time went on. I stopped the Celebrex in May 09 and found they started dropping slowly off.

Now I also have arthritis every where too and it did help with that! No doubt about it, but the side effects were just too much for me.

Chest pain - could not climb stairs without being completely out of breaht, extreme fatigue, night sweats - soak the bed every night kind.

But I know that it works for others too, so if it works, use it!

For me, IBU and a host of others did nothing. Upset stomach was about it for those. Celebrex did give some relief, I noticed it took a week or 2 of continuous use at 400mg/day for it to have much of an analagesic effect, and for the time I was on it, it did help.

The side effects were very slow in onset, but I noticed something was not right about 6 months before stopping. At the time, I was too busy to listen to my body and so I paid for that lack of attention.

I just put up with the pain, it adds about 1 to 1.5 on my pain scale, so it is significant, but I have been here before and will be again. I can handle the pain from it for now, but I am looking for something to replace it.

I hope you doing well today.

I tried both Celebrex and Mobic. Both caused me an upset stomach. Plus as far as pain relief, they weren't that great for me.

Because of the stomach upset, I quit taking them. My wife's grandmother went into the hospital with a bleeding ulcer. She never made it out alive. One of the drugs she was taking was Celebrex. Don't know if that was part of the problem, but I'm not willing to find out.

Plus, I have heart disease so my Cardiologist said not to take NSAIDS anymore.

Keith

I used Celebrex for about a month. It upset my stomach more than actually doing anything. Worked good on the back pain for a couple of weeks. Then tapered off.

Talked to my surgeon and he put me on Oxaprozin - Daypro. That worked much better and costs about 1/10th of what Celebrex sells for. The only catch is if you have high blood pressure it would be bad.

It has the same long term side effects as most of them. Short term it did nothing negative for me at all.