This is a discussion on Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? within the Pain Management forums, part of the General Spine Discussion Forums category; Hooch, do you take the dicoflenac with food? Does that help chase the ulcers away? Does it help your pain? ...
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? Hooch, do you take the dicoflenac with food? Does that help chase the ulcers away? Does it help your pain? I am so leary of NSAID's due to prior ulcer from taking them for so long. But, man did they help. Celebrex was a real good one for me, but am afraid to try it again.
• January 2000 MVA passenger, used jaws of life to retrieve me, neck injury and months of PT
• June 2001 Bicycle accident, 2 compression fractures at T12/L1, Vertebroplasty Sept. 2001
• April 2006 right hip, labral tear and repair
• April 2007 3 level ProDisc @ L3/4, L4/5 & L5/6✷ ✷Lumbosacral transitional vertebra; Dr. Rudolph Bertagnoli
• July 2, 2008 ALIF & Laminectomy @ L6/S1
• July 30, 2008 re-opened 28 days later to remove bone cement that had leaked onto S1 nerve root
• August 2008 Pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, re-hospitalized 1 week
• March 10, 2009 Right SI Joint Fusion
• April 27, 2010 2nd right hip arthroscopy to remove adhesions and release psoas muscle
• September 30, 2010 lumbar facet rhizotomy
• December 9, 2010 12 bilateral lumbar trigger point and steroid injections
• December 23, 2010 12 more bilateral trigger point injections w/o steroid
• February 15, 2011 ESI bilaterally in lower lumbar...relief only for few days. Considering 1 more.
Did Spinal Cord Stimulator trial from 5/11/11-5/17/11 with excellent results; Spinal Cord Stimulator surgery is Monday,
July 18, 2011
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? Yeah but they damage your guts, there's just no way around it. I stopped taking it for a few days, just had to ease up on the stomach. I worked with a bloke with a couple of herniated discs, he was on anti inflams indefinitely. I think they hit some people harder than others.
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? I take Meloxicam when I have problems & I've been taking it more on than off since April 2009 but I also have stomach protection in the form of Zoton (Lansoprazole). I'm in the UK so I don't know whether you have that particular one in the US but I haven't had any problems with anti-inflammatories.
In the US is it usual to take stomach protection when you're on anti-inflammatories?
1993 Back pain age 29.
1998-2001 DDD at L1/2. 10 admissions for discography/epidurals/facet injections/disc injections/RFA's.
2005 ALIF at L1/2 with BMP & good result: pain free
2007 DDD at L4/5 unresponsive to epidural. Discography: early degeneration, anular tear & bulge. Limited response to core strengthening.
2009 ADR (activ L) L4/5.
2011 Facet injections L4/5 & later on T10-L2.
2011 (October) Epidurogram, epidural, nerve root injections & RFA's T10-L2.
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? It should be, once a complaint is heard from the patient. I had the same problem in that NSAIDs caused a gastric ulcer confirmed by tests for H. Pylori. After the appropriate course of antibiotics, and starting an acid pump inhibitor, no more problems, at least with the COX 2s. I currently take Prilosec as it is available by generic and even OTC.Originally Posted by Ruth
I take Meloxicam when I have problems & I've been taking it more on than off since April 2009 but I also have stomach protection in the form of Zoton (Lansoprazole). I'm in the UK so I don't know whether you have that particular one in the US but I haven't had any problems with anti-inflammatories.
In the US is it usual to take stomach protection when you're on anti-inflammatories?
Low back pain became somewhat dehabilitating in 2005
Have had 11 steroid injections, IDET, Trial for nerve stimulator, PT, chiropractic trial, practically every med known to mankind. Discogram indicated three diseased levels with L5-S1 being the most likely pain generator. Post minimally invasive PLIF with internal fixation (titanium) on 12-28-09 of L5-S1. Doing better than expected. Last opioid 7/9/10. Five months pain free, then my neck turned against me. MRI on 12/1/10-- disease at C2 to C7. Only surgical alternative is to fuse entire C-spine. Diagnosed now with Aggressive Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis with cord & brainstem active lesions
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? Im trying to take 1 mobic like every other day to get loose...ect
I dont want a bloody tummy...
C4-5: Mild disc height loss with central annular fissure. Small broad-based left paracentral disc protrusion. Moderate central canal stenosis-the disc protrusion abuts and mildly flattens the left ventral surface of the spinal canal.
C5-6: Disc desiccation with mild height loss.Diffuse discosteophyte bulge anduncovertebral joint hypertrophy, moderate central canal stenosis- Severe neuroforaminal stenosis bilaterally, right greater than left
Re: Mobic or generic drug name Meloxicam... anyone try it before? (Hopefully more often than not) but in the UK a large proportion of family doctors prescribe stomach protection when STARTING patients on anti-inflammatories before any gastric complaints start. I thought other countries would have had a similar protocol so that anti-inflammatory medication doesn't cause additional problems. It's hard enough dealing with spine issues as it is without GIT problems as well.
1993 Back pain age 29.
1998-2001 DDD at L1/2. 10 admissions for discography/epidurals/facet injections/disc injections/RFA's.
2005 ALIF at L1/2 with BMP & good result: pain free
2007 DDD at L4/5 unresponsive to epidural. Discography: early degeneration, anular tear & bulge. Limited response to core strengthening.
2009 ADR (activ L) L4/5.
2011 Facet injections L4/5 & later on T10-L2.
2011 (October) Epidurogram, epidural, nerve root injections & RFA's T10-L2.
I take Nexium, to protect my tummy now, after my ulcer.....but haven't tried any Cox 2's for inflammation....maybe I'll give it a whirl.
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