Re: I'm Giving in to surgery.....

From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Tue Mar 26 14:46:29 2002


I'm not a doctor, and not a medical professional. I'm just someone who has read the package insert for celebrex. And I am VERY surprised that your doctor has given you this for adhesion pain. This is a cox-2 inhibitor, and it is very very specifically targetted against the inflammatory response that is characteristic of arthritis. Since no one actually understands the mechanism of why adhesions cause pain, then using something like a cox-2 inhibitor is pretty experimental. As in "let's try this it might work" not "this is the only thing to try and if it doesn't work the only other thing to try is surgery." There are a LOT of other things to try. Several different kinds of narcotics, for example.

Also I would worry because celebrex can have really nasty side effects. The nastiest one is that it can cause massive internal bleeding and most people who get this go in to shock and die within a few hours. If it helps your pain then it might be worth the risk because the side-effects are pretty rare. But if it doesn't do any good then this is WAY to dangerous to be taking!

At Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Christina wrote: >
>The only thing I have tried is celebrex, I am takin it now. I will add
>that med to my list and ask the doc...thanks so much, Hugs, Christy
>
>At Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Angie wrote:
>>
>>Have you tried aniproxin?
>>

>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Christina" <angelnstix@msn.com>
>>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
>><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:27 PM
>>Subject: I'm Giving in to surgery.....
>>
>>> GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR........Last night the pain started...still hurting this
>>> morning. I am taking the celebrex..200mg and I am still hurting...I did
>>> go 1 week with no pain and BOOM last night it hurt bad. So now what???
>>> Surgery??? I am 1 week away from my period, I am bloated up like a cow
>>> and am back to staying in the house and not moving much. This is
>>> driving me CRAZY!!! I told Doug this morning when I hurt like this I
>>> want to try ANYTHING...well doc said if the celebrex didnt cut the pain
>>> then surgery was the next option. SOOOO this is where y'all come
>>> in....I need advice...perty pweese...good or bad.....give it to me!!
>>> Hugs, Christy
>>>

--
cathy :-)

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