I understand what everyone has said about Vioxx because Vioxx also hurt me. I am a 24 year old female that has had a stroke. You might say 24, but yes it's true. I broke my foot and had to have surgery so the doctor said lets try these samples of Vioxx and see how it works...it worked great until November of 2002 when I had a seizure that sent me to the hospital only to find out that I had also suffered a stroke. And up until this point in my life I had never had a seizure until that day. And the seizures seemed to last a couple weeks, and I went until July without seizures. This time they lasted about a month then I didn't have another one until about a month ago. So i went almost 2 years. I dont know if this is a side effect from the stroke so if anyone knows the answer please let me know. But all this time before I found about Vioxx the only way the doctors could explain it was stress related seizures because all EEG's showed nothing. So they wanted me to go on Paxil and all these other stress realted drugs to help stop seizures. I stopped taking all that medicine on my own and went close to 2 years with nothing. And in that time I moved to another state, started and new job and got married...and if that isn't stress what is??? And guess what no seizures. At the time all this was happening no one knew what Vioxx was doing so they didn't know what was going on and they had to explain some how so they did...and it was wrong. I only figured all this out when Vioxx was withdrawn from the market...so i lived all this time thinking what the doctors said where right, Now that I have talked to them they see what really happened to a young girl with no history of anything except a broken foot. I sit here wondering if I will have to deal with seizures the rest of my life. Speak out and get the word out is all we can do now.