Ba ha, four-thirds! Dow you crack me up. Four thirds of me is ready for bed and sleep and drugs and vitamin C.
My first Rheumy put a sample of indocin in my right hand and a coupon for prevacid in my left hand. He promised me it would eat my guts. I never took it because he scared me to death about it. To hear that Bradford is successful with it, hmmmm, maybe I should have tried it.
I taken many other nsaids and after a time all have hurt my guts. So glad for you Mig that you have never had NSAID gut pain! That is awesome. Prior to my Dx, I ate advil like candy and my disease got progressively worse. I think, after studying about Klebs proliferation etc, I did that to myself with the advil eating habit.
I can tell you, nsaid gut pain is a pain like no other. You think you are going to puke or die, but not sure which will come first if you don't quickly down another stomach protector tablet.
My latest experiment has been to take half a dose of celebrex (which you can't do, lol, so ie: 200mg once per day) and then one Etodolac pill once per day. Usually Etodolac is taken twice a day, so you see I'm taking half of each one, a combination!!! It has worked amazing for me for the last six months. My doc said it was OK, but now the mail order Rx co. is balking at the concurrent use of 2 nsaids. Anyway, the diet DOES work for me, but I can cheat cheat cheat and still feel fairly decent with these two meds, plus ranitidine (my acid blocker).
My luck is running out however, my stomach is starting to talk to me, AND the meds effectiveness is waning. SO back to eating broccoli and meat for me. sigh. Ahhh the life of an AS kicker.
Night all.
