Originally posted by mugsy
I knew about what happens when you're on Vioxx about 5 years ago. I was taking it, and then a fellow teacher went into congestive heart failure and almost died. I stopped taking it.....
I had heard a lot of talk about Vioxx as well before this came out. I have been on Bextra for some arthritis in my neck although I don't take it daily. It supposedly is the same sort of drug as Vioxx but considered 'safe.' To tell you the truth I am going to go back to Advil or one of the ibuprofen medicines now to handle the pain. As recently as last month I had a doctor in the ER wanting to give me Vioxx for a knee injury. I told him *No Thank You* because I of what I had been reading about Vioxx. He looked at me like I had three heads. It's too bad when the patients know more than the doctors.