Bextra-same as Vioxx

Just great...Bextra is the only drug that helps me. To all the Jumbo brain MDs in the articles who say "just take Motrin or naprosyn" I say hey, thanks a lot. I had ulcers for years thanks to such sage advise. Losing the Cox-2 inhibitors will be a dreadful thing for many of us with severe RA/OA.

Just great...Bextra is the only drug that helps me. To all the Jumbo brain MDs in the articles who say "just take Motrin or naprosyn" I say hey, thanks a lot. I had ulcers for years thanks to such sage advise. Losing the Cox-2 inhibitors will be a dreadful thing for many of us with severe RA/OA.

hey am student nurse- is Bextra really dangerous? just asking cos my dad's on it?

Just great...Bextra is the only drug that helps me. To all the Jumbo brain MDs in the articles who say "just take Motrin or naprosyn" I say hey, thanks a lot. I had ulcers for years thanks to such sage advise. Losing the Cox-2 inhibitors will be a dreadful thing for many of us with severe RA/OA.

No kidding..its the only one that works for my RA and FM pain. I've been getting free samples from my doc for quite a while..guess I will fill some scripts!

well they are all cox 2 inhibitors, it's only a matter of time before bextra and celebrex get hit also. As seen in a few prior posts, bextra for me helps keep me out of the advil jar when I have head/back/foot aches.

However, with any drug there is a risk or associated side effect. But they don't pull them all. I bet more people on plavix, coumadin, ASA or ticlid stroke out than cox 2 inhibitors.

What was the number? 0.04% or something? try taking 1000 people and putting them on ASA, ibuprofen or napersyn and see how many stroke and/or end up with terminal or peremant damge to the kidneys/GI Bleeds etc etc. As usual they look at ONE thing at a time, document he numbers, and don't think about the possible outcomes without it. Unlike Trovan that was an awesome ABX that had a definate link to Liver failure, they had other ABX's to change too. That's not the case with the cox 2's. Oh well....the FDA and legal system control medicine once again.

out....

*&$^ *&%# Lawyers! :angryfire

%^*&$ FDA :angryfire

In their infinite wisdom they have neglected to realize that chronic pain takes its own toll on the body (helllooo - fight or flight - increase HR, RR, BP...sound familiar?). Perhaps if people sued for damages done to their CV system by stress of chronic pain, they would elect to leave the drugs on the market.

A bit of perspective -

a full 1% of patients (not like the .04% or so that suffer complications from cox-2) that have gastric bypass surgery DIE within 3 months of surgery (that is pure mortality rate, I have not seen any stats regarding morbidity)...yet I don't see the government scrambling to forbid surgeons from performing the surgery.

I guess it's more PC these days to be morbidly obese than to suffer from chronic pain. I guess physicians cannot be trusted to screen their own patients for risk factors before handing over prescriptions.

A sad state of affairs American medicine is in right now.

Yeah that, RN4NICU truer words were never spoken.