Anyone been using Celebrex for an extended period of time?
Per my orthopedic surgeon, I have two options regarding foot pain…
Continue to train. Train as much as my own pain threshold allows. The pain may get worse, it may stay the same either way the damage has been done and it’s not going to fix itself at this point. Take the celebrex, ice it, do whatever I need to do to keep the swelling down.
or
Surgery - I couldn’t do surgery until mid to late January which would keep me from running for at least 8 weeks, which would pretty much trash my plans for LP’08.
I’m thinking of trying to train thru to LP’08 again (I’ve already done it once) then getting the surgery done afterwards… Which would mean a minimum of 200mg of Celebrex once a day for the next 10 months.
I apologize in advance if I offend. I just don’t have enough background to reply intelligently and I have been shaking my head lately at the amount of crazy people will go through to keep training when downtime is clearly indicated.
First off presuming a decent base of fitness going into surgery in Jan. 2 months convalescence. then you have 5 months of build / peak training! perfect! keep in shape prior to surgery and whamo - you’re biggest worry is plane tickets to Kona.
But even still why you jeopardize long term viability of an appendage for a race ONE YEAR that occurs EVERY year? that is (here is where I need your forgiveness…) stupid.
Keep in mind after a while that Celebrex isn’t going to put a dent in the pain or inflammation.
I apologize in advance if I offend. First off presuming a decent base of fitness going into surgery in Jan. 2 months convalescence. then you have 5 months of build / peak training! perfect! keep in shape prior to surgery and whamo - you’re biggest worry is plane tickets to Kona.
This is slowtwitch… no offense taken…
Really… I think that is my plan… I’ve basically taken a year off trying to let this foot heal with no luck… I started “training” again about a month ago with the intention to build as big a base as possible going into the new year (Normally the off season, but my off season this year was from January - June). Scheduling surgery as early as possible in January… Taking the time off to recover and start building the running base as slowly as possible to just “finish” the run.
PS -Even on my best day I wouldn’t ever have to worry about $$ to cover a kona flight;-)
PS -Even on my best day I wouldn’t ever have to worry about $$ to cover a kona flight;-)
One more reason to take a break, have surgery and heal properly.
I work for Pfizer (maker of celecoxib) and I always find it curious how many people will use palliative drugs when something curative is recommended. Continuing on Celebrex does not guarantee that your pain won’t move from chronic to acute and cause more tissue damage that could require more invasive/extensive corrective procedures. It will most likely mask the increase in pain though, which is different than controlling pain.
PS -Even on my best day I wouldn’t ever have to worry about $$ to cover a kona flight;-)
One more reason to take a break, have surgery and heal properly.
I work for Pfizer (maker of celecoxib) and I always find it curious how many people will use palliative drugs when something curative is recommended. Continuing on Celebrex does not guarantee that your pain won’t move from chronic to acute and cause more tissue damage that could require more invasive/extensive corrective procedures. It will most likely mask the increase in pain though, which is different than controlling pain.
I have to thank you for this post…im a firefighter/paramedic by trade. Everyday i see people that started out with a painful injury and started taking medications to help…once the motrin stops working they want a drug like celebrex…when that doesnt do it next comes vicodin and other similar drugs that are very addicting…pretty soon you cant kick the habit. happened to one of the police officers in my city. back injury…vicodin…failed drug tests…fired. well u see what im getting at here. fix it dont cover it up
This is a combination hammer toe coupled with a longer 2nd metatarsal bone. I can’t quote the Dr. on the procedure he want’s to perform. In layman’s terms he wants to cut some floxer tendons to fix the hamer toe and shorten the metatarsal bone, reattaching the toe bones with some screws or pins or something like that… which in the long run will distribute the weight over 3 metatarsal heads rather then the 2nd only… 3 or 4 weeks in some sort of boot. Then he’ll tape my toe down to some sort of board to get it to lay flat. Another 3 weeks of that then I can start walking for a week or two, then start adding in some very short slow running intervals and in. See how it goes, no guarantees.
He’s a very reputable Dr. in professional sports. He’s thrown some big names at me. I figure if a professional whose making a few hundred thousand $$ per game trust’s this guy, I surely can.
Thanks to all that have provided feed back… You are all absolutely correct in your rationalized thinking…
I’m sitting here months and months after not listening to my body and I still am thinking the wrong way.
Can’t say I look forward to surgery and I’m trying to avoid it like the plague, but as my Dr. has said “the damage is done”. He’s just not the type of Dr. whose saying “Get this done now”. I’ve asked him point blank what I should do and his response to me… It’s up to my pain threshold and what I want to do.
Reason I asked is because I have a foot problem that is ongoing. Was diagnosed as bone spur in big toe - but surgery for this did not help the problem. The thing is that I do have a hammer toe on that foot and the FIRST initial symptom was swelling of the hammer toe (this hammer toe also swelled once in 1999 - then swelling went away and that was the end of that). I did not realise that I had a hammer toe until recently and I always wonder if it is the hammer toe causing me problems.
I am the person that asked you for Drs name (I’ve got that saved should I decide I ever need it - I live in Canada - so would have to pay medical bill myself) Anyway, that is why I am curious.
Thanks for your replies.