If you overdose seek medical attention immediately. The most common symptom of overdose is nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, drowsiness, black or bloody stools, coughing up blood, shallow breathing, fainting, or even a coma.

To make the best of Celebrex for your arthritis pain, it’s important to keep away from certain types of foods and drinks. You should avoid drinking alcoholic beverages, over the counter cold, allergy, or pain medication, or other medications similar to Celebrex.  

Celebrex helps keep the lithium in the blood by 17 percent higher and that is why there should be a lithium therapy to closely monitor during and after the therapy with Celebrex. In addition, if you are taking blood thinners like anticoagulant warfarin you should your blood tested when there is any type of change in the Celebrex treatment.

Celebrex is a very risky treatment that need close monitoring. With in depth supervision, Celebrex has been shown to help to relieve some arthritis patient’s painful conditions. However, it does not prevent the progression of any type of arthritis and only lowers the symptoms and signs of arthritis.