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Celebrex: Taking Celebrex
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If you have experienced any side effects while taking the drug Celebrex, you may be at risk for a variety of serious health problems. If you have suffered from any of the side effects listed below you should seek medical attention from your health care provider immediately:
Do Celebrex users have other options to help ease their pain and inflammation? Yes, other options do exist. Fortunately, reputable vitamin and supplement manufacturers offer a host of natural anti-inflammatory supplements such as glucosamine, chondroitin, and an organic sulfur compound known as MSM. Pain sufferers can avoid Celebrex adverse side effects by taking natural supplements. Instead of tricking the body into not receiving pain signals, these supplements go straight to the cause of the disease by strengthening and rebuilding connective tissue.
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This Celebrex warning has larger implications regarding overall safety concerns about COX-2 selective anti-inflammatory drugs, including Celebrex, Bextra, and Vioxx. Just two months ago, Vioxx was voluntarily pulled off the market after clinical trials showed that patients taking Vioxx were twice as likely to suffer heart attack or stroke as patients taking a placebo. If the findings in the Celebrex warning are confirmed, Celebrex may prove to be even more injurious to cardiovascular health than Vioxx.
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Users of the super aspirins Vioxx, Bextra, and now Celebrex and Naproxen, wonder if they have been damaging their health. Parents of adolescents who committed suicide after starting on the Prozac class of anti-depressants, furiously asked Congress in November why such serious, possible side effects were not made known. Most recently, over the counter medications such as Aleve have been added to the list of drugs that can do serious harm. Class action lawsuits (such as the recent Baycol lawsuits) have been filed regarding serious side effects or death as a result of taking the prescription drug.
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In light of the news on Celebrex, The New England Journal of Medicine today released a letter it plans to publish in its Dec. 23 issue. The letter, by Vanderbilt University researcher Wayne A. Ray, PhD, and colleagues, warns patients to stop taking Bextra until it's proven safe.
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Recently, Celebrex has been recommended by the FDA to receive a "black box warning." The black box warning is the most serious warning that the FDA can provide, short of having the drug recalled from the market. The new warning for Celebrex concerns the possible link between the drug and serious cardiovascular problems including heart attack and stroke. The possible link between Celebrex and heart problems has been a frequent topic in the media, as the drug Vioxx was pulled from the market after it was linked to cardiovascular problems. Vioxx is ... a Cox-2 inhibitor, similar to Celebrex. In a National Cancer Institute Study with approximately 3,600 people taking part, patients taking 400 milligrams of Celebrex daily were 2.5 times more likely to suffer from heart problems than those patients taking a placebo.
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