By Dr. T August 28, 2019
To make a very long story short--- I have been giving out Celecoxib 200mg from a supply in my drug fridge for a couple of years now. I might give out 4 of them, taken once daily, for four days following a heel pain syndrome injection. I asked four pharmacists a couple of years ago " What would be your choice for an NSAID?", and they all said Celebrex. They thought that for short term, the fact that it works in a different cyclo-oxygenase cycle, makes it less irritating to the lining of the g.i. tract. A major paper in The New England Journal of medicine about four years ago looked at the cardiac history five and ten years down the road of taking the drug and concluded (as the Editor did, in an editorial they have in every issue) that it is "maybe safer than Motrin." Maybe the wrong drug is the over the counter favorite.
By Dr. T August 28, 2019
When a practitioner who has some intelligence has been doing his thing for some decades now, his observations are worth listening to. I have dealt with hundreds, if not thousands of diabetic patients through the years. Type I, II, even gestational diabetes, usually found at the end of multiple pregnancies. People who have diabetes in their families for generations, and now, more likely, diabetes with no family history.