A 63-year-old male asked:
hi can a person with a pacemaker take anti inflammatory medication?
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Dr. Dean Giannone answered
25 years experience Internal Medicine
PPM and NSAID. : As long as it hasn’t literally just been put in, I do not see the presence of a pacemaker in and of itself is a contraindication to use of anti-inflammatory analgesic medications.
Answered on Nov 28, 2017
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