Anyone have any idea on why NSAID medication make my IBS WAY WAY worse???? I'm on Previcid to help with acid reduction as a preventive. My RA is just awful and the RA meds haven't seemed to started working yet, they can take 3-6 months to get into your system. The RA doc put me on indomethacin, its a prescription anti inflammatory (NSAID=non steroidal anti inflammatory) to help with the swelling and joint pain and it did help but after about 4 days on it, my tummy went into a complete TIZZY and it went on for 2 weeks so I stopped the drug Friday to see if my tummy calms down but now I'm premenstrual, which always upsets my IBS so I will have to wait until later this week to be for sure if it was the medication. However, I've tried to take Bextra and a few others in the past and even motrin does upsets my tummy. I had been taking Alieve which is a nsaid for about a month and that hadn't seemed to upset my IBS but it also wasn't working anymore, even at a very high dose. I've tried Tylenol and my tummy's ok with that but it doesn't do anything at all for the swelling. Since stopping the anti inflammatory Friday, my hands are little sausages again, had to have Will comb my hair this morning, my chest is hurting so bad again I can hardly breath, not to mention my wrists, hips, knees, ankles, toes, neck and shoulders!! About the only thing that doesn't hurt are my elbows!!!
Anyone have any thoughts or idea's?? I've been on the placquenil since mid January and I started the alsulfazine (sp??) about 3 weeks ago. I don't want to do the methotrexate because it can take several months to work as well, and a LOT of people don't tolerate it well and you have to stop it at least 4 months before trying to get pregnant. When the RA gets worse, it makes my fibro get worse as well. All I'm on for the fibro is the Zanaflex (muscle relaxers) at bedtime along with the Ambien to help me sleep and the magnesium supplement the Linz suggested, anything else I can do for that?
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Why do NSAID drugs upset tummy??
