Hey everyone,
I was on youtube just now watching Gerdicks swims and one of the related links was this video by a masters swimmer who was told to have heart damage because of Vioxx use...maybe he's among us? But I thought it was a kinda funny video--I took vioxx for 4years because of my shoulders during high school before it was removed so...I am sure there are the bunch of us out there who have used it as well..
youtube.com/watch
Hey everyone,
I was on youtube just now watching Gerdicks swims and one of the related links was this video by a masters swimmer who was told to have heart damage because of Vioxx use...maybe he's among us? But I thought it was a kinda funny video--I took vioxx for 4years because of my shoulders during high school before it was removed so...I am sure there are the bunch of us out there who have used it as well..
youtube.com/watch
I was on it for a small case of tendonitis on my wrist. yup, same wrist that will be operated on in 10 days. I was still on it when I got pregnant but didn't know it yet. It's been over 2 years and I still wonder what damage that Vioxx did to my son.
Alison
Hey everyone,
I was on youtube just now watching Gerdicks swims and one of the related links was this video by a masters swimmer who was told to have heart damage because of Vioxx use...maybe he's among us? But I thought it was a kinda funny video--I took vioxx for 4years because of my shoulders during high school before it was removed so...I am sure there are the bunch of us out there who have used it as well..
youtube.com/watch
I was curious what Vioxx was. If anyone else is curious, here's what I found: www.drugs.com/vioxx.html .
Drugs and side effects. What should we take what should we not take.
It truly differs from person to person. Each of our bodies handles drugs, chemicals, etc differently. What works for me may not work for you. Some people actually have opposite effects from drugs! Some drugs may work for a while then stop working later on. I took Vioxx for a knee injury many years ago and it helped. Years later, I took it for my shoulder......it was like taking a sugar pill. It did not help a bit. :notworking:
Eventually is was proven Vioxx had nothing to do with those heart problems, was not the causative agent, nor did it cause any other problems. Too late for the drug company, too late for the comsumer. Now we have more expensive newer drugs. Lots of litigation problems with drugs are caused more by money necessity than damage per se. Silicone implants are now back, but millions made millions from Dow
Corning...in settlements. So now we have the more expensive Arcoxia for more painfull ailments, and our time proven Ibuprofen (no one is suing those guys, not enough money there) for our lesser inflamations. Funny no one complains about aspirin, by far the NSAID with more side effects...billy fanstone
Eventually is was proven Vioxx had nothing to do with those heart problems, was not the causative agent, nor did it cause any other problems. Too late for the drug company, too late for the comsumer. Now we have more expensive newer drugs. Lots of litigation problems with drugs are caused more by money necessity than damage per se. Silicone implants are now back, but millions made millions from Dow
Corning...in settlements. So now we have the more expensive Arcoxia for more painfull ailments, and our time proven Ibuprofen (no one is suing those guys, not enough money there) for our lesser inflamations. Funny no one complains about aspirin, by far the NSAID with more side effects...billy fanstone
I hear much more about aspirin being used as a blood thinner these days than anything else.
As for Vioxx, I thought it was the Cox2 inhibitor portion of the chemical that was causing problems in some patients.
No drug is 100% safe. At age 74, my dad had an allergic reaction to Bactrim (a very common sulfa antibiotic). He had taken it many times before with no problem. He developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a very rare disease usually triggered by an allergic reaction. It was fatal in his case.
No drug is 100% safe. At age 74, my dad had an allergic reaction to Bactrim (a very common sulfa antibiotic). He had taken it many times before with no problem. He developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a very rare disease usually triggered by an allergic reaction. It was fatal in his case.
Sorry to hear about that.
No drug is 100% safe, you're right, and we must weigh the risks against the benefits. This same idea holds true for so many things in life, not all of them medically related. What are the chances that you will die in a car crash on the way to work today? Die on the table during a "routine" surgery? Die in a plane crash en route to some faraway place? Suffer a heart attack or stroke while participating in our favorite sport? Somehow we accept so many risks in daily life but when it comes to western medicine we want perfection (I am guilty of this too).
Dr. Dean Edell is famous for ranting about this very subject and I think it's a rant worthy of voicing.
Vioxx (which I took for a year with no ill effects) is a COX-2 inhibitor. By inhibiting COX-2 but not COX-1, as aspirin does, the action of thromboxane is left unopposed, increasing the risk of strokes and heart attacks. I believe it is a class effect--the other COX-2 inhibitors should behave the same way. The thinking was that selective inhibition of COX-2 would provide pain relief while protecting the stomach--an improvement over drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen. In retrospect it seems obvious that there might be problems with this approach.
