[neverdem]

I thought they’d known this for sometime. I’m down to one 800mg of Ibuprofen a day for osteoarthritis. Back to aspirin and the chance of bleeding ulcers. Nothing is safe.

"The one exception is Naproxen, which has an anti-platelet effect that seems to work against stroke and heart attack risk."

I'd take a baby aspirin and check out Naproxen. Aspirin is supposed to irreversibly inhibit platelet agregation, or so I was taught.

I don't know about Naproxen besides that claim.

[poobear]

I took Naproxen many years ago when it was prescription only. I think it’s OTC Alleve now. It works too.

BTW my arthritic hip turned out to be Stage 4 necrosis. Powder. As soon as they got that nasty thing out last year my blood is back to normal. I’m king of the world! Well, except for the knee thing ;D!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***”The one exception is Naproxen...”***

My mom talked her doctor into giving her perscription Naproxin for her arthritis. He warned her he would have to monitor her kidney function real close. She still wanted it.

One dose and it killed her kidneys dead. She died not long after from renal failure.

I will never take Naproxin or anything with it in it.