Numerous studies implicating it in many different diseases, the study that I put for in the very first post of this thread being the most significant for us. That and inflammation (withing certain limits of course) is a natural process of the body, the major usage for ibuprophen and other NSAIDs is for limiting inflammation. This can have a detramental effect on body tissues being able to rebuild themselves after damage or even normal useage. As I indicated though, chronic out of control inflammation is a bad thing for the body though and needs to be brought under control, though there are other methods besides taking NSAIDs.Beth wrote: I'm experiencing today most likely from the ibuprofen I took last night? Mike, you said you worried about anyone taking NSAIDs - I'm curious about your reasons. Can you elaborate?
Thanks,
Beth
NSAID or COX-2 inhibitors and Colitis
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Right as well as the vitamins and supplements I suggested that are implicated in helping migraines or where migraines occur when you are defficient in them.Liz wrote:Hi Beth
What I was suggesting was that there are drugs other that Ibuprofen that could be of benefit to you without the side effects of NSAIDS. You are obviously worried about it so maybe you could talk to your doctor about triptans or the like as an alternative.
Love
Liz
Beth,
I don't have time to look them up right now, (I've got to get back to work), but in the past, we have discussed research articles that clearly implicate NSAIDs as triggers for MC - not only are they triggers for relapses/flares, but they can actually be the original reason why MC develops in the first place, for some people, as many members here can testify, (and a couple already have). They are on almost every no-no list for all inflammatory bowel diseases, (not just MC).
NSAIDs have a reputation for prolonging MC flares. For some people, stopping the use of NSAIDs may bring improvement in just a few days, while for others, it may take weeks or months to undo the damage. The migraines are most likely a part of your MC symptoms - mine certainly were, because now that I am healed, I never get them any more.
As mike pointed out, it's a viscous cycle - the MC causes the migraines, and the NSAIDs that you take to control the migraines, serve to prolong and possibly intensify the MC, which in effect, perpetuates the MC flare, and, of course, also perpetuates the migraines in the process.
MC truly sucks. It is most definitely a life-altering disease.
Wayne
I don't have time to look them up right now, (I've got to get back to work), but in the past, we have discussed research articles that clearly implicate NSAIDs as triggers for MC - not only are they triggers for relapses/flares, but they can actually be the original reason why MC develops in the first place, for some people, as many members here can testify, (and a couple already have). They are on almost every no-no list for all inflammatory bowel diseases, (not just MC).
NSAIDs have a reputation for prolonging MC flares. For some people, stopping the use of NSAIDs may bring improvement in just a few days, while for others, it may take weeks or months to undo the damage. The migraines are most likely a part of your MC symptoms - mine certainly were, because now that I am healed, I never get them any more.
As mike pointed out, it's a viscous cycle - the MC causes the migraines, and the NSAIDs that you take to control the migraines, serve to prolong and possibly intensify the MC, which in effect, perpetuates the MC flare, and, of course, also perpetuates the migraines in the process.
MC truly sucks. It is most definitely a life-altering disease.
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
