NSAIDs: Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

Aspirin, Advil, Aleve, Bextra, Celebrex, Clinoril, diclofenac, Ibuprofen, Motrin, Naprosyn, Nuprin, Vioxx, others.

NSAID Side Effects

Stomach bleeding, decreased kidney functon, edema, kidney failure, liver failure, ulcers, damage to cartilage, more.

Pharmaceutical Trade Secret: What Side Effects Really Means

Your body doesn't differentiate between effects and side effects. These magic words are used by doctors and drug companies to get you to accept harmful substances. They make the risks sound somehow unimportant. All the bad things are off to the side somewhere.

Sometimes the drug company redefines which is the side effect, and which is the main effect. Then they can market the drug for a new purpose. Side effects is a marketing term, not scientific information.

Casualties of Aspirin and Other NSAIDS

Over 100,000 hospitalized yearly, over 16,000 die.
Singh, Gurkirpal and Rosen Ramey, Dena. NSAID Induced Gastrointestinal Complications: The ARAMIS Perspective - 1997. The Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 25, Supplement 51. May 1998. from ARAMIS: Arthritis Rheumatism Aging Medical Information Service

Gastro-Intestinal Damage from NSAIDs

A miniature video camera in a swallowable capsule was used to view the small intestine of NSAID users. The lining of the small intestine was previously unviewable by any other means. Erosions of the small intestine were found in 62% of daily users of NSAIDs, 5% of non-users. Severe injury to the small intestine was found in 23% of daily users of NSAIDs, 0% severe injury in non-users.
BCM.edu
BCM.edu

NSAIDs and Eye Diseases

NSAIDs can cause cataracts, dry eyes, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and retinal hemmorhages.
VisionWorksUSA.com

Super-Aspirins Called Super-Disaster

The new class of NSAIDs, the cox-2 inhibitors (Bextra, Celebrex, Vioxx; aka super-aspirins), were supposed to be much more effective than previous pain medications, and do much less damage. They've turned out to be so dangerous that Public Citizen has placed them on it's Do Not Use list. The cox-2 enzyme that the inhibitors block turns out to be cardio-protective. Super aspirins also cause kidney damage and stomach bleeding, just like the older drugs.

Bextra causes edema (swelling), hypertension (high blood pressure), and cardiovascular thromboembolisms (blood clots which endanger the heart).
Celebrex causes atrial fibrillation (uncoordinated twitching of upper chambers of the heart), cardiac ischemia (decreased blood flow to the heart), and a 2-fold increase in myocardial infarctions (heart attacks).
Vioxx has been pulled from the market. Reason: 4-5 times as many heart attacks, also more strokes.
Citizen.org/Vioxx
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