If you are taking Vioxx - Fibromyalgia Message Board

AliceBlueBelle · 08-25-2004, 03:09 PM

If you are taking Vioxx please read:

FDA Study Finds Vioxx Increases Heart Attack Risk

By Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Patients taking Merck Co. Inc.'s
Vioxx arthritis drug had a 50 percent greater chance of heart
attacks and sudden cardiac death than individuals using Pfizer
Inc.'s rival Celebrex medicine, ...

http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=MyLycos&storyId=912178 &from=email

Icefire · 08-25-2004, 03:22 PM

Ibuprofen can do the same thing if you have heart problems, as can flexeril if you take inhalers for asthma. Let's face it, with the side effects of drugs, it's almost not worth taking any of them.

Chris

ginnyash · 08-26-2004, 04:00 PM

Great thats what I am taking! 50 mg a day. The bad part I don't think its helping either. I hope my dr will put me on something else.

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