CELEBREX Reviews (CELECOXIB)Average Rating: 2.7 (386 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CELEBREX with similar:
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| 1 | Back pain | Slurred speech, "black-out", anxiety, black stools, fatigue | OK everybody. I got every diease in the book, HIV, HEP C, anal cancer (dysplasia) bulging disks, blah blah blah. Still--I look and feel GREAT at 48. I have NEVER read the side effects sheet for ANY other the drugs given to me to help me stay alive. My beleif is that you "read it" you'll "have it". I taken meds most of my life with little side effects-- I exercise, no drinking or smoking. Now--having bad disks that won't go away my new Dr. gave me samples of Celebrex. I took 2 tablets yesterday and two today. I went to gym to stretch then woke up about 4 PM. Can't tell ya how I got home. My phone is FULL of VM's "asking if I'm OK?" I had a rare and weird side effect (I'm thinking with one of my other meds). PLUS my back still hurts. I'm done with this drug. :) | M | 48 | 2 days 200mg 1X day | 12/7/2010 | 4 | psoriatic arthritis | mild diarhea and severe gas. Cut back to 1 200mg per day experienced much less bloating and gas . | M | 58 | 1 years 200 2X day | 11/13/2010 | 5 | Medial meniscus tear | None | After experiencing increasing knee pain after a run, I went through the usual home treatments of hot and cold packs, therapeutic levels of Advil, as well as trying Tylenol and aspirin. Nothing really helped, so I went to an orthopedist. He diagnosed the MMT, and asked if I wanted a pain killer. I told him about trying Advil, etc., to no avail. He gave me a week's sample of Celebrex. It was like a miracle: not only did 95% of the pain in my knee go away, but so did some old post-op shoulder pain, as well as hip and hand pain (probably arthritis). I felt 20 years younger. He gave me an Rx to last until my surgery. Now, I've had to stop taking the Celebrex before my knee surgery (which is in a couple of days), and my leg is beginning to hurt and swell up again, and the other aches and pains have returned. I'm thinking of asking for another Rx even after my MMT is repaired. | F | 56 | 3 weeks 200mg 1X day | 11/1/2010 | 3 | Endometriosis | Burning "I just swallowed ground glass" abdominal pain | Initially no side effects at all, but after a couple of days I started having an intense "ground glass" burning upper abdominal pain which turned out to be NSAID induced ulcers. They may say Celebrex is easy on the stomach, but it wasn't at all for me. Too bad I reacted so negatively to it, it worked really well for the pain and now I can't use any NSAID at all anymore because of the ulcers. | F | 27 | 3 days 100mg 2X day | 10/28/2010 | 1 | Osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis, | Esophagus, throat, and stomach discomfort..slight at first and worsening to nagging pain with nausea and loss of appetite..Lethargy..Rashes in the last ten days. Took awhile to pinpoint cause. | Had the same problem a year ago. I was taking Celebrex, 200MG, twice a day. I went to pulminery specialist because I thought it was my chest. I then went to a gastro M.D. and had an endoscopy. I stopped the Celebrex and got better. Celebrex helped the joint pain so I started it again at half the dose, 200 MG/Day but not daily at first and then daily and the symtoms started so slowly that I failed to recognize them until it became obvious. From reading the comments posted here I see that in the last two months of this three months of taking it, I have been noticibly "too" tired and unable to function much of the day and by 8 PM I cann't keep my eyes open. I started getting small rashes too. I won't be taking it again! I am generally full of energy. I still workout 3 - 4 times a week but only because I do it in the mornings. I work full time but drag during the day and I can't do anything else. | F | 58 | 8 days 200 MG 1X day | 10/25/2010 | 4 | Arthritis in both knees and hands | No side effects that I csn identify | I take 1 Celebrex combined with 2x1000mg Glucosamine each day and this combination seems to keep the pain at bay. I had a knee replacement in June2010 which was very successful, but still have to cope with the pain in the other parts of my body. I'm not sure which of the meds is the one that works, becasuse I'm not gasme to go off either one. | F | 70 | 4 years 1X day | 10/18/2010 | 3 | Lower back pain, sciatica | I have stopped for 5 days, headaches are gone, diarhea still there so is burning in fingers. Sciatica is gone. I actually developed right after sciatica, trouble breathing, stuffy nose, dry cough. | F | 73 | 6 days 1 1X day | 10/13/2010 Patient History | 3 | joint pain all over | Started having itching a couple of months back; thought it was heat but no going away. The itching doesn't result in typical rash-like response but it doesn't go away. Been having more and more trouble staying asleep and dreaming all the time. Really tired and draggy throughout the day. | I am going back to herbal remedies and stopping Celebrex because I am having palpatations and the side effects for possible heart attack and stomach problems are more than I am willing to risk anymore. | F | 53 | 3 years 200mg 1X day | 10/13/2010 | 1 | back and neck pain- arthritis | My 80 year old father also taking COUMADIN had a bleeding hemmoragic stroke after taking this celebrex. It should have been taken off the shelf. He is now paralyzed on his right side- barely able to speak and still in the ICU unit | There are warnings on line but not enough on the packaging about the complications of taking celebrex with blood thinners. esp in older adults. There was a controversy and they played it down - | M | 80 | 20 days 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 1 | Shoulder pain | Sharp pain in the right lower-back, right hip, and right thigh after about 1 or 2 days similar to pinched nerve. Patch of pin-prick rash on right thigh and behind knee after four days. Mild throat irritation. Discontinued use after seeing rash. | I thought that the pain in the right back and leg was coincidental, probably from sitting in the car too long. Turns out that it was due to the Celebrex. Rash and irritated throat started after four days, painful to the degree of causing lack of sleep. Three days after discontinuing Celebrex, still have leg pain, and the rash has crusted over and is slightly less painful. Dr. did not mention these side effects. If he did, I would have recognized the problem after a day instead of four. | M | 43 | 5 days 1X day | 9/8/2010 | 1 | Foot surgery/ pain | Began drug following surgery and thought it was a miracle that I had NO pain for two weeks. Attributed lethargy to surgery and stopped drug for a few days began having alot of pain and MD said to resume celebrex. It did help the pain but after five weeks I began to have difficulty sleeping, sore joints, muscles overall pain and diareah and pain in my lower left abdomen which cause me such concern that I began journaling it. Stopped the celebrex five days ago and I am still in horrible pain, neuralgia and headache tired. Hope it goes away soon. | I'll never take it again. | F | 64 | 4 weeks 200mg 2X day | 8/21/2010 | 5 | myofascial pain syndrome, OA | none | I didn't know for sure how effective it was until I had to stop it for 4 months following lumbar surgery. (It interferes with bone growth after surgery). I had headaches for a couple days as withdrawal. I was delighted start taking it again. It definitely helps my joint pain, but still have to take vicodin and tramodol for breakout pain. | F | 56 | 4 years 200 1X day | 8/15/2010 | 4 | slipped disc | intense burning sensation of skin starting with my face, then chest, inner arms, belly, and inner thighs, legs and top of feet. Accompanying redness and slight overall sort-of-rash, but less of a rash and redness than I'd have imagined for the intensity of the burning sensation. Also fatigue and irritability. | After less than two days of taking celebrex, my back/leg pain was almost gone. Just before I was due to take my fourth dose my face suddenly began burning as if it had been rubbed with hot pepper, I felt on fire. It spread to much of my body as described. Called my doctor who prescribed benadril which took care of the burning. He told me to stop taking the celebrex, although we were not sure if it was the celebrex. However I'm not typically allergic to foods and the celebrex is all I could think of. Also, I wondered if it might have been a reaction between the celebrex and my vitamins. About 1.5 hours before the skin burning, I'd taken my full arsenal of vitamin supplements (E, cod liver oil, calcium+D, biotin, niacin, phosphatadyl serine). | F | 47 | 2 days 30 mg 2X day | 8/5/2010 | 3 | costochondritis | water retention, mild fatigue | Started taking it for severe pain diagnosed as costochondritis. Experienced some pain relief, but after 4 days, started to have swollen fingers and feet. Very uncomfortable. Not enough pain relief to justify adding discomfort of swollen fingers to keep taking it. Left message for doctor that I'd like to discontinue. | F | 37 | 7 days 1X day | 7/16/2010 | 2 | Scleritis | none | This was the 3rd medication I took for my scleritis - at first I noticed the red splotch in my eye went away and was excited...however another red spot appeared at the end of my first month taking Celebrex, which was the same result I had with Indocin. As an experiment, I stopped taking any medication after I ran out of the Celebrex bottle and my redness increased. In summation - it seemed to curb the redness, but not prevent flare ups. | F | 30 | 1 months 2X day | 5/7/2010 | 3 | pain | good feelings about pain | a pain relief | F | 33 | 2 days 3 1X day | 4/17/2010 | 2 | Osteoarthritis Knee | Itchy all over | It has done nothing for my knee pain. I had better results with Motrin. | M | 54 | 9 days 200 mg 2X day | 4/11/2010 | 3 | arthritis pain | Severe headache on second day taking it. Then diarrhea. It did help immediately with arthritis pain in knee. | I took Celebrex for about 6 months a year ago, then switched to Naproxen. I had to stop Naproxen because of stomach pain, so went back to Celebrex. I did not have these side effects with it the first time, so wonder if after time, the side effects get worse. I was taking Celebrex for awhile a few months ago, was on it for about 3 months, but noticed urinary problems (frequency, urgency, burning), so stopped taking it then. The symptoms went away. | F | 60 | 2 days 200mg 1X day | 3/30/2010 | 1 | arthritis back,knees | Horrific bladder problems diagnosed with interstitial cystitis by a urologist about one year ago after having the bladder problems for about seven or eight years. After a variety of treatments the urologist referred me to specialist for interstitial cystitis (IC)at the University of Wisconsin. The pain I suffered with on a daily bases can be described as many hours of crying and wondering if the pain would every go away. This is how I described the pain. It felt like my bladder was acid burned and I would have shooting pains that felt like glass cutting my already acid burned bladder. Medications did not help. The reason I know the problem was caused by celebrex the IC specialist took me off the celebrex 2/22/10 and I have been pain free ever since. | The cost for treatment was outrageous. The tests in the hospital, cystoscopy X 2, MRI, blood tests,so many urine test and the horrible instillation treatments at least 25 of them and the cost of celebrex ($400 for 90 days X ten years), the cost of varous medications over the course of treatment that did not help, and the loss of my job. Before the urologist referred me to the IC specialist it was suggestd that I apply for Social Security Disability. | F | 58 | 10 years 200 mg 1X day | 3/18/2010 | 3 | osteoarthritis | vaginal bleeding (I am post menopausal so had to see doc immediately), fatigue, increased blood pressure, flu-like symptoms, severe leg cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, unusual roughness of tongue, stomach upset, diarrhea and gas | After just one dose it greatly helped with pain. I had been on celebrex about 6 years ago then cardiologist stopped me. We thought we would try again since no further cardiological problems but could not tolerate it. | F | 49 | 4 days 200mg 1X day | 3/16/2010 |