But some anti-inflammatory drugs do seem to make a difference.
"Perhaps once people are so far along in the disease process, anti-inflammatory drugs won't work."
"I haven't had to take any anti-inflammatory drugs since a year ago July, three months after the surgery."
Check with your health care provider before taking any anti-inflammatory drugs.
Oral anti-inflammatory drugs require four to six weeks to work.
Before the Cox-2's arrived, the market for anti-inflammatory drugs had been in decline.
Anti-inflammatory drugs are often used to control the effects of inflammation.
In people with kidney disease, anti-inflammatory drugs may make the problem worse.
In the group that took no anti-inflammatory drugs, 210 out of 2,553 developed dementia.
A doctor said he had growing pains and prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs.