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Alcohol

NSAIDs have some warning about alcohol, and I remember this being mentioned to me in person. Should we include something about alcohol and naproxen in the article? -Ich (talk) 06:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. I was treated in the emergency room last night and told to take Naproxen. They told me that drinking while on the medication is quite serious and extremely dangerous. Sorry that I do not have an article citation on this; but I could tell my ER doc was quite serious about this. 24.251.84.221 02:05, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a health professional, but I don't believe there is a direct link between the pharmacology of Naproxen (and other NSAIDs) and ethanol. The advice to avoid alcohol is because both NSAIDs and ethanol can cause stomach irritation and gastric bleeding, so ethanol may increase the prevalence and severity of these side effects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.176.142.11 (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Naprogesic

I added the trade name 'Naprogesic'. Naprogesic is a Naproxen Sodium variant sold in Australia. Not 100% sure if the trade name should be on that list, ob I don't have access to the others to rtfm. Thoughts? 220.240.227.91 09:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prescription

Could someone explain why this drug is sold as a prescription drug? As far as I can see it would have no potential for abuse..? --Javsav 10:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prescription drugs may be regulated for several reasons. Not just abuse, but safety and the seriousness of the illness they treat. I don't know specifically about Naproxen, but I can make an educated guess that it is/was a safety concern, maybe its effect on the gastrointestinal system or the possibility of interaction with other NSAIDs, which are popular over-the-counter drugs. 129.15.84.133 23:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drugs are also more likely to be sold by prescription when they are still under patent, in part because it's easier to market drugs to a comparatively small number of physicians than to the general public; in part because newer, patented prescription drugs are in some sense experimental. Clinical trials test for obvious short term negative effects, but often cannot detect rare effects (which require thousands of patients) or effects from long-term use. Such effects only become apparent after the drug has been prescribed for hundreds of thousands of patients over many years, and even then only if someone looks for an effect. Drugs that go off patent frequently become OTC (over the counter) if they are considered relatively safe, and no serious adverse effects have occurred in the years they were prescribed. Eperotao (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stomach Cancer

This article has an unsourced statement claiming that has been linked to stomach cancer. However, Cancer.org claims it -reduces- the incidence of stomach cancer. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_2X_Can_stomach_cancer_be_prevented_40.asp SailorAlea 12:06, Sep 13 2006

Citations

problem solved. --84.172.231.31 19:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naproxen Sodium tablet photograph

Naproxen tablet

CPO792 20:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)CPO792[reply]

My Experience on Naproxen

I have recently started taking the drug and I have noticed a serious level of increase in my happiness and activeness. I killed a fly today with my bare hands in school with the injured shoulder that I'm taking the drug for. Last night I was jumping around my room and I realized what the heck am I doing? My mother even commented as well as others at school. I had a serious injury in my shoulder - bicepitis tendinitis the doctor said. The bicep tendon is the largest tendon in your arm that connects the bicep to the shoulder. Mine was incredibly swollen and he said how have you carried this arouind for two weeks. I told him I have a high tolerance to pain. Lifting accident. Anyhow, the drug has given me gas, but I always fart a lot. I am definately more energetic and hyper. I don't know if that is normal. I have not felt any other discomfort. I'm taking a huge dosage too. I need physical therapy to fix my arm. Hope this helps...--Scud830 02:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure that your behavior change is not a result of some other medication that you're taking? Do you have a lithium imbalance? If not, maybe you are just reacting to the pain relief (so, be careful you don't injure yourself further!). Hmm? You're not smoking/snorting/huffing anything with your medication are you; that would be very very bad and possibly even fatal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.173.226.235 (talk) 17:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adverse Effects

i think it's known that naproxen sodium can cause stevens-johnson syndrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens-Johnson_syndrome —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.112.144.194 (talk) 08:18, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I´m taking naproxen for a operation i have about 10 days ago, i need it to cope wiht the pain and inflamation, but i don´t know when it is nessecity or is startin to become something else, my uestion is, does Naproxen can cause adiction, or who addictive is this drug? 19:22, 25 January 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.140.75.250 (talk)

Naproxen isn't physically addictive, none of the NSAIDs are. You should watch out for any analgesic with an opiate content (codeine, dihydrocodeine, oxycodone, methadone, morphine etc) as these certainly can result in addiction. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 19:54, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About "addiction": It's worth distinguishing between addiction and physical dependence.Opiates cause chemical dependency in all people who take them long term, but addiction is relatively rare in pain patients who are not already addicts. Addictive behavior includes obsessive thoughts about the drug, taking more of the drug than is needed to control pain--i.e., getting high--and an inability to function well in day to day life because of abusing the drug. Chronic pain patients may cope very well, not abuse the drug (get high), and even forget to take it (as opposed to thinking obsessively about it).Eperotao (talk) 17:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm bothered by the following sentence:

The National Institutes of Health prematurely terminated a randomized clinical trial of naproxen and celecoxib for prevention of Alzheimer's disease, after preliminary data suggested an increased risk of major cardiovascular events, such as heart attack or stroke, in patients taking naproxen.

My understanding was that it was known if these cardiovascular events were "major" or quite minor, as the data were never released. That's what I just read here at the Washington Post: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52625-2005Jan31.html> Unless, more information has come up, I would delete the word "major." Eperotao (talk) 17:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Naproxen

I'm due to have surgery in a few days for an arthritis issue and was wondering if Naproxen is a blood thinner and therefore wrong to take before surgery —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.240.198.171 (talk) 03:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]