As someone who was prescribed both Vioxx, Bextra and two other cox-2 inhibitors to treat my miserable arthritis pain I again say WORD to Randy. I was an otherwise healthy 20-something until after 7 months of treatment using the medications. At that point I developed serious heart palpitations and extremely high blood pressure. Neither had ever been a problem for me prior to my use of those drugs. Once they were banned I was immediately taken off them and haven't had any such issues since. I also haven't had a completely pain free day since either.

The drugs worked well for me...amazingly well in fact and I hope one day they can come out with something of the same caliber so that those of us who suffer can get relief but I can guarantee you I'll be less likely to jump on the bandwagon and start popping pills for relief this time.