Luc--Actually, I really appreciate that you don't want to be alarmist, but i already got a super scare when I had the stomach bleeding from Nsaids a few years back.

Sheila--about the cymbalta ad -- yes, it really got my blood boiling. The Pharma merry-go-round.
Since the RXs for opiates in the U.S. have skyrocketed in the past 10 years--epidemic of addiction-- you can just imagine the marketing wizards at Cymbalta thinking, "We can market this as a non -narcotic pain killer" (that's the prominent message of this ad). So, a crisis created by one drug is added to with another (and oh you poor suckers--doctors and patients who believe this malarky--who think Cymbalta is not "addictive" --some are in for quite a ride when they try to quit, and that special definition of "addiction" they use that so conveniently excludes ADs -- semantics won't be much help with the withdrawhell)