You can never have enough...

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Interesting about the warfarin. I was put on a heparin analogue after my PE earlier this year and taken off the celecoxib as a routine order by the consultant. 'Because it would interfere'... except because it put me into real trouble with the arthritis my GP started researching and discovered the celecoxib was not contraindicated for heparin as the incidence of clotting with it was so minimal. Apparently there has been a huge multiyear study just completed after celebrex was thought to be involved in heart problems, and the drug has been totally cleared of those potentials. Which is great for those of us with severe osteoarthritis. So she put me back on the celebrex, along with a mild drug to protect my tummy, and everything has been much better for the last six months. Just panadol for bad pain days. Just as well as being a cheap drunk, opioids and narcotics make me very ill and ibuprofen is almost as bad.

Mind you the sooner I can get off these anticoags the better. For some reason I dislike taking them a lot - age denial probably!

Anyway, I hope your pain is better. It is a hard thing to deal with.

Yeah  Warfarin is a pain the butt really. If I had known the limits to pain meds that come with it, Id have risked having a pig heart valve.. in saying that I would have also chosen it if I had been told they were in the learning process of putting them in via the groin.. I cant have any anti inflams, no brufen or anything containing it. No voltaren topical creams etc.. And I wont try gabapentin as it turned MrP and my Brother into really nasty men, and a friend started having suicidal thoughts.. My twin brother was addicted to opiates, so Im very careful when I use it. Arthritis sucks too so I understand what you are going through... but we have to remember the good times, lol says she who is still hobbling around like a 90 year old with pain in the muscles that keep cramping... I wish we could get quinine still.. Im taking to my DR tomorrow,. she has to do something.