This is not a success story - we are posting it because it is incredulous to us that someone accepts their bad health and chronic joint pain without having a "want to change" bad enough to try.
We met Kathy a couple weeks ago. She is a 48 year old from the Mid-West. To put it bluntly she is a classic example of self inflicted, or at least, a self enhanced handicap.
Kathy struggles with chronic joint pain as well as a host of other degenerative disease symptoms. In fact, she cannot walk without a cane and even then not very far. Being grossly overweight not only adds to her debilitating joint pain, especially in her knees, but increases the onslaught of degenerative disease symptoms.
Taking 12 different prescriptions medications each day to treat the symptoms (not the causes) of her problems, Kathy is on a ferris wheel and only she can stop it.
Drinking a half case, yes - a half case, of sodas each day compounds her problems. The ironic thing is that Kathy really doesn't eat much throughout the day - she doesn't have to since she crams a barrel of sugar into her system through the sodas.
We sat down and talked to Kathy about what she can do nutritional to try and re-gain her health as she is an example of living too short and dying too long. We introduced the concept of a Healthy Lifestyle, eating better and taking Nutritional Supplements however without any effect, as Kathy is convinced this is her lot in life. That's what we mean by a self enhanced handicap. She is placing her health in the hands of disease care specialists and not assuming control over her own health and life.
As Kathy's chronic joint pain worsens, she even lose the minimal mobility she has now, accelerating her other problems. Her borderline diabetes will become full fledged Adult On-set Diabetes,...she'll gain more weight and increase the pain in her knees. Kathy and Kathy alone has the power to do something about it.
We consoled her sister-in-law, who originally introduced us to Kathy, by telling her Kathy's want and need for a better life is just not strong enough to overcome her closed mind. Our door is always open to help Kathy, but she has to assume first responsibility for her health and have a want to change it. The clocks ticking.
The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a change.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Are Your Joint Supplements of High Quality? - Supplements and GMP
Most of the information was derived from various reports in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements website.
Most U.S. Nutritional Supplement manufacturers use the food model Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP) as opposed to the Pharmaceutical-model GMP. Whether or not those supplements are daily vitamins or minerals, stand alone minerals or vitamins or compound supplements for joints. This is important to consumers that they get what they buy but this is not always the case.
The Nutri-Search Corporation and Lyle MacWilliam, publisher and author of the Comparative Guide for Nutritional Supplements are leading advocates for the Pharmaceutical-model GMP, as this insures compliance with pharmaceutical-model GMP gives consumers assurance that the supplements they consume meet stringent pharmaceutical standards for content, potency, and dissolution, and do not contain unwanted impurities.
While food-model GMP provides some protection for consumers, they do not require manufacturers to follow tough and sometimes costly procedures, such as the quarantining and testing of each ingredient for purity, potency, and identity when it arrives at their facility.
Many nutritional product companies advertise “high quality supplements using high quality raw ingredients” tested through a “Quality Assurance Program”. If so, they ought to mention Pharmaceutical GMP compliance and have a certification on the label through the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Dietary Supplement Verification Program or the NSF Dietary Supplement Certification Program.
Then and only then can the consumer rest assured that he or she is taking the highest grade supplements – why spend your money on anything else.
Purity and Potency through Pharmaceutical grade GMP is not the only issue. Safety is another one. Many U.S. studies have shown discrepancies between what is on the label and what is in the bottle. The FDA, the U.S. regulatory watchdog for food and drug safety, has long been battling unscrupulous manufacturers of nutritional products who pose concerns for public safety because the consumer could not be assured that what was on the product label was actually in the bottle.
The FDA has identified several products in the U.S. market that are not accurately labeled or that contain potentially harmful contaminants. The agency has cited the following examples of safety violations:
The use of non-food-grade chemicals in the manufacture of dietary supplements;
Product contamination with excessive amounts of lead;
Sub-optimal levels of nutritional components as claimed on the label (one product had only 35 percent of the amount of folic acid claimed on the label);
Products exceeding safe upper levels of nutrients (one manufacturer recalled a niacin product after it received reports of nausea, vomiting, liver damage and heart attack associated with the use of its product).
Consumerlab.com, a U.S.-based testing facility for dietary supplements, recently completed a study of 47 nutritional supplements and found that eleven U.S. multivitamin products—almost 25% of the products tested—failed their quality control tests. A number of the products were significantly short in the amount of important vitamins or minerals. Some contained too much lead and another failed to break apart properly for absorption. To review this report, log on to www.consumerlab.com
The bottom line is that to be sure that Nutritional Supplements may or may not help your chronic joint pain, you must ensure that the products you try are of the best quality. I know that after almost 20 years of trying poor quality joint supplements, if I was not convinced to try joint supplements for my chronic knee pain one more time, this time using high quality pharmaceutical grade supplements then I may have never known the amount of relief that physical mobility that I enjoy now.
Let the buyer beware.
Most U.S. Nutritional Supplement manufacturers use the food model Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP) as opposed to the Pharmaceutical-model GMP. Whether or not those supplements are daily vitamins or minerals, stand alone minerals or vitamins or compound supplements for joints. This is important to consumers that they get what they buy but this is not always the case.
The Nutri-Search Corporation and Lyle MacWilliam, publisher and author of the Comparative Guide for Nutritional Supplements are leading advocates for the Pharmaceutical-model GMP, as this insures compliance with pharmaceutical-model GMP gives consumers assurance that the supplements they consume meet stringent pharmaceutical standards for content, potency, and dissolution, and do not contain unwanted impurities.
While food-model GMP provides some protection for consumers, they do not require manufacturers to follow tough and sometimes costly procedures, such as the quarantining and testing of each ingredient for purity, potency, and identity when it arrives at their facility.
Many nutritional product companies advertise “high quality supplements using high quality raw ingredients” tested through a “Quality Assurance Program”. If so, they ought to mention Pharmaceutical GMP compliance and have a certification on the label through the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Dietary Supplement Verification Program or the NSF Dietary Supplement Certification Program.
Then and only then can the consumer rest assured that he or she is taking the highest grade supplements – why spend your money on anything else.
Purity and Potency through Pharmaceutical grade GMP is not the only issue. Safety is another one. Many U.S. studies have shown discrepancies between what is on the label and what is in the bottle. The FDA, the U.S. regulatory watchdog for food and drug safety, has long been battling unscrupulous manufacturers of nutritional products who pose concerns for public safety because the consumer could not be assured that what was on the product label was actually in the bottle.
The FDA has identified several products in the U.S. market that are not accurately labeled or that contain potentially harmful contaminants. The agency has cited the following examples of safety violations:
The use of non-food-grade chemicals in the manufacture of dietary supplements;
Product contamination with excessive amounts of lead;
Sub-optimal levels of nutritional components as claimed on the label (one product had only 35 percent of the amount of folic acid claimed on the label);
Products exceeding safe upper levels of nutrients (one manufacturer recalled a niacin product after it received reports of nausea, vomiting, liver damage and heart attack associated with the use of its product).
Consumerlab.com, a U.S.-based testing facility for dietary supplements, recently completed a study of 47 nutritional supplements and found that eleven U.S. multivitamin products—almost 25% of the products tested—failed their quality control tests. A number of the products were significantly short in the amount of important vitamins or minerals. Some contained too much lead and another failed to break apart properly for absorption. To review this report, log on to www.consumerlab.com
The bottom line is that to be sure that Nutritional Supplements may or may not help your chronic joint pain, you must ensure that the products you try are of the best quality. I know that after almost 20 years of trying poor quality joint supplements, if I was not convinced to try joint supplements for my chronic knee pain one more time, this time using high quality pharmaceutical grade supplements then I may have never known the amount of relief that physical mobility that I enjoy now.
Let the buyer beware.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Lovaza – Prescription Omega 3 Supplement
Italicized font is from MyAchingKnees.com, other font is info taken from the Lovaza.com website.
MyAchingKnees.com recently became aware of a prescription Omega 3 supplement called Lovaza. Lovaza is a registered trademark of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies.
This is what the company says about Lovaza: It is a prescription medicine, called a lipid-regulating medicine, for adults. Lovaza is made of omega-3 fatty acids from oils of fish, such as salmon and mackerel. Lovaza is used along with a low-fat and low-cholesterol diet to lower very high triglycerides (fats) in your blood. Before taking Lovaza, talk to your healthcare provider about how you can lower high blood fats by: losing weight, if you are overweight; increasing physical exercise; lowering alcohol use; treating diseases such as diabetes and low thyroid (hypothyroidism); and, adjusting the dose or changing other medicines that raise triglyceride levels such as certain blood pressure medicines and estrogens.
MyAchingKnees.com understands that Lovaza is designed for high cholesterol treatment. We believe that Omega 3 Fatty Acids are an essential ingredient in the overall treatment plan not just for high cholesterol, but for many degenerative diseases. We also believe that Omega 3 Fatty Acids can help with chronic joint pain, especially knee joint pain.
The Lovaza.com website further states that Lovaza is the only FDA-approved medicine made from omega-3 fish oil that's proven, along with diet, to reduce very high triglycerides. That the FDA has standards in place to make sure that prescription medications like LOVAZA are safe, effective, and quality controlled and the method Lovaza is manufactured is reviewed and approved by the FDA.
The Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplement that MyAchingKnees.com uses is a pharmaceutical grade supplement manufactured using GMP processes and receiving a USP certification the same standards from which prescription medication is manufactured.
Each 1-gram capsule of Lovaza contains 465 mg EPA and 375 mg DHA. Inactive ingredients include: Gelatin, glycerol, purified water, alpha-tocopherol (in soybean oil). The daily does is 4 capsules.
Each capsule of the Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplement that MyAchingKnees.com uses and recommends contains 100 IU of Vitamin D, 1000 mg of Fish Oil, 290 mg EPA and 235 mg DHA. Other ingredients include: Gelatin, glycerin, lemon oil, purified water, alpha-tocopherol (in soybean oil). The daily does is 2 capsules.
Lovaza is being advertised as providing the same active ingredients of up to 14 capsules of other Omega 3 supplements. You can do the math from the above paragraphs and see that is not a true comparison with the Omega 3 supplement we are taking.
With the FDA relaxation of the use of a prescription drug designed for and certified for a particular application, you may see Lovaza prescribed in the future for chronic joint pain, once Physicians understand the possible benefits of Omega 3 for joint pain and once patients start asking for it for this specific joint pain application.
MyAchingKnees.com does not know the cost of a 28 or 30 day supply of Lovaza, however the website is advertising a $20 off per month script savings card. The Omega 3 supplement that we are taking cost $22.17 to $19.95 per 28 day supply, wholesale or autoship price respectively.
MyAchingKnees.com recently became aware of a prescription Omega 3 supplement called Lovaza. Lovaza is a registered trademark of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies.
This is what the company says about Lovaza: It is a prescription medicine, called a lipid-regulating medicine, for adults. Lovaza is made of omega-3 fatty acids from oils of fish, such as salmon and mackerel. Lovaza is used along with a low-fat and low-cholesterol diet to lower very high triglycerides (fats) in your blood. Before taking Lovaza, talk to your healthcare provider about how you can lower high blood fats by: losing weight, if you are overweight; increasing physical exercise; lowering alcohol use; treating diseases such as diabetes and low thyroid (hypothyroidism); and, adjusting the dose or changing other medicines that raise triglyceride levels such as certain blood pressure medicines and estrogens.
MyAchingKnees.com understands that Lovaza is designed for high cholesterol treatment. We believe that Omega 3 Fatty Acids are an essential ingredient in the overall treatment plan not just for high cholesterol, but for many degenerative diseases. We also believe that Omega 3 Fatty Acids can help with chronic joint pain, especially knee joint pain.
The Lovaza.com website further states that Lovaza is the only FDA-approved medicine made from omega-3 fish oil that's proven, along with diet, to reduce very high triglycerides. That the FDA has standards in place to make sure that prescription medications like LOVAZA are safe, effective, and quality controlled and the method Lovaza is manufactured is reviewed and approved by the FDA.
The Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplement that MyAchingKnees.com uses is a pharmaceutical grade supplement manufactured using GMP processes and receiving a USP certification the same standards from which prescription medication is manufactured.
Each 1-gram capsule of Lovaza contains 465 mg EPA and 375 mg DHA. Inactive ingredients include: Gelatin, glycerol, purified water, alpha-tocopherol (in soybean oil). The daily does is 4 capsules.
Each capsule of the Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplement that MyAchingKnees.com uses and recommends contains 100 IU of Vitamin D, 1000 mg of Fish Oil, 290 mg EPA and 235 mg DHA. Other ingredients include: Gelatin, glycerin, lemon oil, purified water, alpha-tocopherol (in soybean oil). The daily does is 2 capsules.
Lovaza is being advertised as providing the same active ingredients of up to 14 capsules of other Omega 3 supplements. You can do the math from the above paragraphs and see that is not a true comparison with the Omega 3 supplement we are taking.
With the FDA relaxation of the use of a prescription drug designed for and certified for a particular application, you may see Lovaza prescribed in the future for chronic joint pain, once Physicians understand the possible benefits of Omega 3 for joint pain and once patients start asking for it for this specific joint pain application.
MyAchingKnees.com does not know the cost of a 28 or 30 day supply of Lovaza, however the website is advertising a $20 off per month script savings card. The Omega 3 supplement that we are taking cost $22.17 to $19.95 per 28 day supply, wholesale or autoship price respectively.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Health Screenings
Although this site is oriented towards education on Joint Problems such as chronic Joint Pain and possible solutions, we believe that joint pain is irretrievably linked to our general health. We have already posted about how inflammation from oxidative stress can degrade the conditions of our joints, most notably our knees, and how life style and nutrition contribute to our conditions and our solutions.
MyAchingKnees.com believes in the routine health screening as a means to determine possible health problems before they become too big to manage. We have highlighted three different companies who offer various and different types of health screening below:
Life Long Screening
Life Line Screening is dedicated to providing affordable, reliable preventive health screenings. They believe that partnering with doctors to help detect health problems is an effective way to improve quality of life. Life Long Screening provides community-based screening events, staffed by highly trained healthcare professionals, through screenings taking place in neighborhoods all over the contiguous United States in community centers, places of worship, senior centers, and corporations.
Some of Life Long Screening services include: Ultrasound Screening; Finger Stick Blood Screenings; and, Limited Electrocardiographs.
Phone 800.449.2350 or go to: http://www.lifelinescreening.com/
Health Check USA
Health Check USA’s mission is to assist in the prevention of disease by providing affordable, yet quality health screening services to the public through access all types of blood tests for multiple conditions and diseases without a physician’s referral, and at nearly half the typical cost.
As the nation’s leading direct-to-consumer medical testing service, Health Check USA is affiliated with testing laboratories in small towns and major cities in all 50 states. The tests that we provide are the same as those ordered by doctors across the country, and indeed, many physicians refer their patients to Health Check USA .
Phone 800.299.7226 or go to: http://www.healthcheckusa.com/
MyAchingKnees.com really likes the blood testing services from Health Check USA and believes a series of blood tests (say every year) over a period of time (several years) is a great diagnostic tool to understand changes in your body and give some warning to potential emerging health problems.
USANA Health Sciences
USANA Health Sciences is one of America ’s leading companies in the field of health and nutrition. USANA helps improve the lives of thousands of people around the world by producing superior pharmaceutical grade nutritional product lines that customers can always trust.
USANA Health Sciences offers a free on-line Health Assessment, go to: http://www.usana_health_assessment
MyAchingKnees.com believes in the routine health screening as a means to determine possible health problems before they become too big to manage. We have highlighted three different companies who offer various and different types of health screening below:
Life Long Screening
Life Line Screening is dedicated to providing affordable, reliable preventive health screenings. They believe that partnering with doctors to help detect health problems is an effective way to improve quality of life. Life Long Screening provides community-based screening events, staffed by highly trained healthcare professionals, through screenings taking place in neighborhoods all over the contiguous United States in community centers, places of worship, senior centers, and corporations.
Some of Life Long Screening services include: Ultrasound Screening; Finger Stick Blood Screenings; and, Limited Electrocardiographs.
Phone 800.449.2350 or go to: http://www.lifelinescreening.com/
Health Check USA
Health Check USA’s mission is to assist in the prevention of disease by providing affordable, yet quality health screening services to the public through access all types of blood tests for multiple conditions and diseases without a physician’s referral, and at nearly half the typical cost.
As the nation’s leading direct-to-consumer medical testing service, Health Check USA is affiliated with testing laboratories in small towns and major cities in all 50 states. The tests that we provide are the same as those ordered by doctors across the country, and indeed, many physicians refer their patients to Health Check USA .
Phone 800.299.7226 or go to: http://www.healthcheckusa.com/
MyAchingKnees.com really likes the blood testing services from Health Check USA and believes a series of blood tests (say every year) over a period of time (several years) is a great diagnostic tool to understand changes in your body and give some warning to potential emerging health problems.
USANA Health Sciences
USANA Health Sciences is one of America ’s leading companies in the field of health and nutrition. USANA helps improve the lives of thousands of people around the world by producing superior pharmaceutical grade nutritional product lines that customers can always trust.
USANA Health Sciences offers a free on-line Health Assessment, go to: http://www.usana_health_assessment
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Aching Knees – Jerry’s Story
Jerry M. is a roofer and HVAC maintenance worker in the greater Dallas , Texas area. Although relatively young in his mid 30’s, he was experiencing knee joint pain that was aggravated by climbing ladders and standing – working on sloped roofs. Previously he had been using Ibuprofen, sometimes taking 600 mg’s a couple times day. Jerry is also taking a statin drug for high cholesterol. Not knowing the bad combination of aspirin and Ibuprofen, Jerry also took one 325 mg aspirin each morning until he found out about the bad combination of Ibuprofen and Aspirin. Jerry also took an off the shelf 500 mg Niacin (Vitamin B3) supplement.
Jerry had tried an off the shelf joint health product with 1,500 mg of glucosomine and 1200 mg of chondroitin. He had tried this supplement for six months and felt that it had not helped one bit.
One of our representatives talked to Jerry which lead Jerry to quit taking the single Niacin (Vitamin B3) product as it was in a much greater dosage than necessary, the Blended Standard recommend daily dose being 60 mg, but there is no data available that support Niacin or Niacinamide helping joints. Jerry started taking a pharmaceutical grade daily nutritional supplement (actually the highest rated product in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements) but did not get any joint pain relief. Although Jerry reported feeling great and even dropping a few pounds, he still had joint pain after a day of roofing or installing HVAC systems.
Our associate recommended to Jerry, that since he as experiencing better health taking the daily nutritional supplement, that he may want to try a pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acid (Fish oil) supplement. At less than $44 a month, Jerry thought it was worth a test. About four weeks into taking this product Jerry called our Associate and commented that he no longer had pain at the end of day like he used to from walking on sloped roofs.
We believe that while Glucosamine helps joint health and reduces pain through it’s interaction with existing cartilage, we also think the Omega 3 Fatty Acids are crucial to working against the sometime cause of chronic joint pain and that is Inflammation.
Jerry had tried an off the shelf joint health product with 1,500 mg of glucosomine and 1200 mg of chondroitin. He had tried this supplement for six months and felt that it had not helped one bit.
One of our representatives talked to Jerry which lead Jerry to quit taking the single Niacin (Vitamin B3) product as it was in a much greater dosage than necessary, the Blended Standard recommend daily dose being 60 mg, but there is no data available that support Niacin or Niacinamide helping joints. Jerry started taking a pharmaceutical grade daily nutritional supplement (actually the highest rated product in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements) but did not get any joint pain relief. Although Jerry reported feeling great and even dropping a few pounds, he still had joint pain after a day of roofing or installing HVAC systems.
Our associate recommended to Jerry, that since he as experiencing better health taking the daily nutritional supplement, that he may want to try a pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acid (Fish oil) supplement. At less than $44 a month, Jerry thought it was worth a test. About four weeks into taking this product Jerry called our Associate and commented that he no longer had pain at the end of day like he used to from walking on sloped roofs.
We believe that while Glucosamine helps joint health and reduces pain through it’s interaction with existing cartilage, we also think the Omega 3 Fatty Acids are crucial to working against the sometime cause of chronic joint pain and that is Inflammation.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Recommended Dietary Allowance versus the Comparative Guide Blended Standard
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), sometimes called the Required Daily Allowance is the recommended daily dietary intake of nutrients, meeting the basic nutritional needs of the majority of people (98%), to ward off diseases such as scurvy, rickets and other nutritional disease of the 1940’s.
Today’s lifestyle, combined with pollutants, toxins and lack of nutritional value of foods, and adding the physical and emotional stress of modern life necessitates a more modern, comprehensive and higher concentrate of nutritional supplements to achieve and maintain optimal health and combat inflammation which greatly enhances degenerative diseases including degeneration of joints and chronic joint pain.
To put it in simple terms, the RDA is vastly outdated. Today’s health requires much higher levels of nutrients in order to maintain optimal health.
The below chart depicts the identified nutrient and the RDA level versus the level of this nutrient developed by the Comparative Guide. You can see what the RDA recommends in terms of nutritional components and levels (amounts) versus what the blended standard suggests is an amount for optimum health.
While MyAchingKnees.com stresses the importance of nutritional supplements such as Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acids for Joint Health and to reduce Joint Pain, the smart person would consider taking all the nutrients at the higher required levels in order to obtain the best prevent from nutritional diseases.
Furthermore, MyAchingKnees.com believes that all the nutritional components work together, synergistically, with the sum total of this synergistic action being much greater than the individual total good that the nutritional components achieve. For more information not only on Pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acids for joint health but for information on a balanced daily multi-mineral, multi-antioxidant that best meets the Comparative Guide Blended Standard, please fill out the Product Information Request form to the right and submit, or contact me directly on the CONTACT ME icon.
Today’s lifestyle, combined with pollutants, toxins and lack of nutritional value of foods, and adding the physical and emotional stress of modern life necessitates a more modern, comprehensive and higher concentrate of nutritional supplements to achieve and maintain optimal health and combat inflammation which greatly enhances degenerative diseases including degeneration of joints and chronic joint pain.
To put it in simple terms, the RDA is vastly outdated. Today’s health requires much higher levels of nutrients in order to maintain optimal health.
The below chart depicts the identified nutrient and the RDA level versus the level of this nutrient developed by the Comparative Guide. You can see what the RDA recommends in terms of nutritional components and levels (amounts) versus what the blended standard suggests is an amount for optimum health.
While MyAchingKnees.com stresses the importance of nutritional supplements such as Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acids for Joint Health and to reduce Joint Pain, the smart person would consider taking all the nutrients at the higher required levels in order to obtain the best prevent from nutritional diseases.
Furthermore, MyAchingKnees.com believes that all the nutritional components work together, synergistically, with the sum total of this synergistic action being much greater than the individual total good that the nutritional components achieve. For more information not only on Pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acids for joint health but for information on a balanced daily multi-mineral, multi-antioxidant that best meets the Comparative Guide Blended Standard, please fill out the Product Information Request form to the right and submit, or contact me directly on the CONTACT ME icon.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Joint Pain Medications - Celebrex and Side Effects
Celebrex (Celecoxib) is the only COX-2 Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) currently on the market after Vioxx (Refecoxib) and Bextra (Valdecoxib) were taken off the market. Celebrex is usually prescribed for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis, and has been on the marker since 1998.
NSAIDS work by blocking the performance of an inflammation causing enzyme, cyclooxygenase (COX). COX-2 NSAIDS are involved in the inflammation pathway.
Celebrex is considered less likely to cause stomach problems that other NSAIDS are attributed to. However, all NSAIDS, COX-2 or otherwise, have a risk of high blood pressure, kidney disease, fluid retention and heart problems.
Celebrex comes in two strengths -- 100 mg and 200 mg. The usual recommended daily dose for osteoarthritis is 200 mg, taken as a single dose or in 100 mg doses twice a day. Your doctor will decide the appropriate dose for you and your condition, and would prescribe Celebrex for you to relieve joint pain and inflammation associated osteo or rheumatoid arthritis.
People who have allergic reactions to sulfa or are aspirin sensitive should not take Celebrex.
In April 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning that taking Celebrex and other NSAIDS increased cardiovascular risks like stroke and heart attacks. The FDA further advised physicians to carefully consider the potential benefits and risks of Celebrex and other treatment options before a decision is made to prescribe Celebrex.
Some of the common side effects that may be associated with Celebrex include:
Headache
Indigestion
Upper respiratory tract infection
Diarrhea
Sinus inflammation
Stomach pain or nausea
Bleeding stomach ulcers
Liver Damage
Kidney Damage
Fluid Retention
High Blood Pressure
It is important to tell your doctors about all other medications you take. Other medications may affect how Celebrex works and Celebrex may affect how the other medications work. So given the history of COX-2 NSAIDS while in the world would a person take these prescription drugs without trying less invasive possible solutions like pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Fish Oil (Omega 3 Fatty Acids)?
NSAIDS work by blocking the performance of an inflammation causing enzyme, cyclooxygenase (COX). COX-2 NSAIDS are involved in the inflammation pathway.
Celebrex is considered less likely to cause stomach problems that other NSAIDS are attributed to. However, all NSAIDS, COX-2 or otherwise, have a risk of high blood pressure, kidney disease, fluid retention and heart problems.
Celebrex comes in two strengths -- 100 mg and 200 mg. The usual recommended daily dose for osteoarthritis is 200 mg, taken as a single dose or in 100 mg doses twice a day. Your doctor will decide the appropriate dose for you and your condition, and would prescribe Celebrex for you to relieve joint pain and inflammation associated osteo or rheumatoid arthritis.
People who have allergic reactions to sulfa or are aspirin sensitive should not take Celebrex.
In April 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning that taking Celebrex and other NSAIDS increased cardiovascular risks like stroke and heart attacks. The FDA further advised physicians to carefully consider the potential benefits and risks of Celebrex and other treatment options before a decision is made to prescribe Celebrex.
Some of the common side effects that may be associated with Celebrex include:
Headache
Indigestion
Upper respiratory tract infection
Diarrhea
Sinus inflammation
Stomach pain or nausea
Bleeding stomach ulcers
Liver Damage
Kidney Damage
Fluid Retention
High Blood Pressure
It is important to tell your doctors about all other medications you take. Other medications may affect how Celebrex works and Celebrex may affect how the other medications work. So given the history of COX-2 NSAIDS while in the world would a person take these prescription drugs without trying less invasive possible solutions like pharmaceutical grade Glucosamine and Fish Oil (Omega 3 Fatty Acids)?
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