• Rookwood@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You gotta step up to naproxen, bro. Just make sure you eat something with each dose or it will fuck up your stomach.

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      4 months ago

      They’re both bad long term.

      NSAIDS are indiscriminate COX inhibitors (which is why they mess with your stomach, COX-1 is part of the stomach lining goo production). COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex don’t have this issue (or at least significantly less).

      Personally I don’t find any of the COX inhibitors to be effective at all, and their risks are well above 0.

      Makes me wonder if other, supposedly “risky” drugs are actually a better choice.