CELEBREX Reviews (CELECOXIB)Average Rating: 2.7 (386 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CELEBREX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CELEBREX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | pain in back, ankles, & Knees | Driving down the Expressway, suddenly felt like I was going to faint or die. Although I came out of it in @ 3 minutes, it felt like an hour & I was terrified. Will never take it again! | Doctor doesn't think the side effect was from the Celebrex., I never felt that before & have never felt it again since I stopped taking Celebrex. Imagine if I had crashed into another car! | F | 75 | | 4/3/2009 | 1 | inflammation | Heart palpitations, heavy head / headaches, dizziness. | Symptoms coincided precisely with me taking the medication. Little doubt in my mind that two connected. Had no idea that it was such a controversial drug. Only found this out after looking on web (incidentally though, why is it that negative comments on this site about it coincide with Vioxx being pulled?). Regardless, am pretty sure that this drug has problems - certainly with me. Will not be taking again. Symptoms are ongoing (despite stopping a week ago).. | M | 29 | 4 days | 11/19/2008 | 1 | Degenerative Disc Disease | Ended up in the hospital with a blood pressure of 225/125 ! | I had been on Celebrex for one week, when I developed a horrible headache. -- It kept getting worse and worse. I felt like someone was beating me over the head with an iron bar. I was in so much pain that my husband took me to the hospital. When they took my Blood Pressure it was 225/125. -- (I had been to the Dr. just 10 days before that, and my BP was 139/85.)-- When the Doctors at the Hospital asked my husband if I was on any medications, he said "Yes: Celebrex". -- They immediately knew that was what caused the high BP reading. -- I was in the hospital for four days, before they could get my BP down to normal! -- They told me I was lucky I didn't have a stroke! -- A few months ago, a friend who had been on Celebex for five years, had a stroke, and ended up unable to speak, or move, for months. He later died. | F | 64 | 7 days | 9/26/2008 | 1 | Vaginal Hysterectomy | Tremors, debilitating anxiety | After only one 100mg dose of Celebrex I started feeling clausterphobic and experienced muscle tremors in my chest. I was gripped by anxiety and a sense of impending death/doom. I had the most frightening panic attack for the first time in my life and most definitely will never touch this drug again. | F | 38 | 1 days | 9/8/2008 | 1 | arthritis, back pain | Palms of my hands looked blotchy and red. It did nothing for pain. | F | 51 | 4 months | 8/19/2008 | 1 | "Tennis Elbow" | Painful, itchy, red rash all over face that traveled to entire body within hours. Intensified when I was exposed to heat. Rash was also in ear canal, tongue and eyelids...eyes itched severely. Face moderately swollen. | I am allergic to Asacol which is also an anti-inflammatory sulfa drug. I did not know Clebrex was a sulfa drug otherwise I wouldn't have even tried it. I'm surprised my doctor gave this to me...actually I'm DISAPPOINTED that he gave this to me. Thank goodness I only took this one day! | F | 31 | 1 days | 8/8/2008 | 1 | 1 tab on empty stomach pre surgery | Terrible--could barely swallow 1 benydryl while racing to ER. blacked out; face and throat hugely swollen..4 hours of constant ER attention-IV; split lip; all joints still burn like fire 36 hours later. can't do Epi because of heart condition. BAD STUFF. | F | 59 | 1 days | 7/13/2008 | 1 | arthritis pain in hands and foot | I felt strangely lightheaded, confused, making mistakes at work on the computer, thinking I saw bugs out of the corner of my eye. Entire back of my head hurt and was sore and tender, throbbing worse the longer I took it. All of the symptoms stopped within a day or 2 after I stopped taking it. | I really did not think the medicine had anything do with the symptoms I was experiencing. I had planned ask my Dr to do a CT scan on my head if it did not go away when I quit the celebrex. | F | 55 | 2 weeks | 6/27/2008 | 1 | Pleurisy | I took 400 mg for three days and then lowered to 200 mg for two more days. By the third day, I had no energy, rapid heart rate, Nausea and felt like I was either having a heart attack or a stroke. I have been off of it for 3 days now and still have a burning skin sensation all over my body. Please email me at [email protected] if you have had the burning of the skin. I would like to know how long it lasted. Stay away from this drug! | M | 32 | 4 days | 6/21/2008 | 1 | Back and groin pain | Abdominal cramping, diarrhea, sleeplessnes | This drug made me feel better all over - the back pain was better plus all my other little aches and pains were gone after taking for a few days. Seemed like a miracle but after reading the postings on this site, am planning to stop taking it. The diarrhea and insomnia are bad enough but I'm really scared about the other side effects mentioned. Ibuprofen only gave limited relief, Tylenol no help. Only other option seems to be narcotics. | F | 57 | 4 weeks | 6/17/2008 | 1 | soft tissue pain | I took this over a period of twenty days. At about the 20 day mark, after taking one to two celebrex per day, I experienced severe shortness of breath. The shortness of breath was akin to feeling like I was drowning. My heart also raced at 130 beats a minute when sitting. The medication has left me with reactive airways and since taking it, I have not been able to get rid of reactive asthma. My airways have been left allergic and I have asthma that I never had before. This is seemingly not written up in the side effects regarding celebrex, but I'm living proof that it happened. On a side note, it did not work for pain either. | This drug seemingly is different from sulfa containing drugs and therefore if you have a sulfa allergy, it is supposed to be safe. However, I have a sulfa allergy and it was not safe for me. | F | 42 | 20 days | 5/20/2008 | 1 | Back pain | Nausea | Have had tremendous mid-back pain for about six months. Taking Vicodin every six hours but it was losing its effect. Decided to take the risk of Celebrex if it would kill the pain. Took it five or six days but it didn't help the pain. But it did make me feel nauseous. Went back to Vicodin. In the meantime, found out it was Boniva that was causing all the pain in the first place! Crazy! Check out the Boniva report. Hope to be better soon. | F | 72 | 6 days | 4/22/2008 | 1 | hip and knee pain | after second day stomach pain which became worse third day, and dhiaria developed. Stopped taking celebrex after 3rd. day. I'm now 4 days since last pill and stomach is still cramping, but less. | Effect of celebrex was terrible stomach and abdominal pain with only three days of taking the med. 200 | F | 77 | 3 days | 3/9/2008 | 1 | fibromyalgia | Complete body rash that made me feel like my skin was crawling. Went to the doctor who called the ambulance to take me to the hospital. In the ER I was told if I would have taken two tablets, I probably would not be alive. | F | 61 | 1 days | 2/25/2008 | 1 | stress fracture of the foot | sunburn like rash over entire body including EYEBALLS, did absolutely nothing for pain in foot, sensitivity to light | told doctor I was allergic to sulfa drugs. He prescribed celebrex telling me it wasn't really a sulfa drug. wasn't "really?" what does that mean? should have known better, his entire office was one big ad for the drug. posters, pens, note pads, flyers, buttons all advertising this drug. gave me a bag of samples and a prescription. never filled the prescription as I didn't like the side effects. | F | 38 | 4 days | 2/7/2008 | 1 | arthritis in hip & feet (heel spurs | Blood in stool; yellowing of skin & eyes (damages the liver). | When heel spurs were diagnosed in 2000, my dr instructed me to take Celebrex every day for the rest of my life. That was in 2000. If I don't take it, must constantly grind heels against a hard surface to relieve instense pain. If I do take it, there's no pain. BUT new md (8 yrs into taking this med) now tells me she wants me to gradually wean myself away from this. She insists they now know that this medicine should NOT be taken daily by ANYONE, because of potentially fatal, dangerous side effects (heart attacks, strokes, liver damage, ulcers, intestinal bleeding, etc.). She encouraged me to only take it if and when I need it. Now new problems with back have arisen. The DC is offering alternative approaches and says drugs only mask the pain. They do not solve or heal the problem causing the pain, and the meds often make new problems of their own. Some you won't know about until the damage is already done to major organs in your body. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Feeling used | F | 49 | 8 years | 2/6/2008 | 1 | pain in Left shoulder and Left knee | Extreme nightmares, stress, and anxiety. | Sooooo not worth it!!!!!!! | F | 42 | 1 days | 1/28/2008 | 1 | "golfer's elbow" | Death, this drug in some causes blood platelets to stick together, mine formed and traveled to heart causing a Mycrocardial infraction / tear in an artery. | Vioxx was pulled and how is Celebrex different? *Beside who owns them) Both of drugs are co2 inhibitors cause blood platelets to get sticky, resulting in greatly inflated heart attacks and strokes. Try other options. | M | 58 | 2 weeks | 12/19/2007 | 1 | Arthritis | I took this medication before and within 4 days of starting it suffered a mini-stroke. Not sure of where the clot came from and desperate for pain relief tried it again 6 months later, and once again within a week had another mini-stroke. With no prior history to strokes or heart problems and with a healthy beating heart, Celebrex was the only thing that changed in either situation. | F | 63 | 5 days | 12/18/2007 | 1 | RA | Generalized adema-my hands were so swollen I could not hold a pen or pump gas (this was not joint inflamation like I get from the RA) | My knees worked while I was on this drug. Which was the first time in two years that they worked. However I was more disabled when on the drug because of the generalized adema in my hands and feet. I hated all of the coxx 2 s and begged to be put back on Sulindac on which I had no side effects and much better relief of the systemic symptoms of RA. | F | 36 | 30 days | 12/8/2007 |