It's well known that NSAIDs can tear up your stomach and cause problems. I am lucky in that my AS has always been fairly mild and I could get away with just taking celebrex occasionally.

This year though I had more pronounced AS inflammation and pain so I had to take celebrex daily for 3 months, and then to top it off I got shingles. The AS pain is mostly gone now, I still have some nerve pain left over from the shingles, and I'm finally off the celebrex.

BUT now I developed a constant cough (literally constant throughout the day), tickling and burning of the throat, made worse by eating just about anything. I'm taking heavy dose of PPI (pantoprazole) but still it only helps a little.

I imagine others on this forum have taken NSAIDs and ended up with GERD. Any recommendations for how to make it go away? Does it ever heal?

Didier

Last edited by Didier; 05/01/18 08:45 PM.