When people have pain, they often take pain medicines called NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). NSAIDs help ease pain and inflammation. But if you have high blood pressure, heart failure, or kidney disease, you should not take an NSAID. And you should not take any drugs that have ibuprofen or another NSAID in them.

NSAIDs are bad for your blood pressure.

NSAIDs can cause high blood pressure. And if you have high blood pressure, they can make it worse. This increases your chances of having a heart attack or a stroke.

NSAIDs are bad for your heart and kidneys.

Long-term use of NSAIDs can make your body hold onto fluid. This can make the symptoms of heart failure, such as shortness of breath, swollen ankles, and a rapid or irregular heartbeat, worse. NSAIDs can also keep the kidneys from working well. This makes taking NSAIDs risky for people who already have kidney disease.

Conditions: Hypertension, High BP, HTN, HBP, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Kidney Failure, Renal Failure, Heart Failure (HF)

Treatments: NSAID, Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen, Aleve, Naproxen, Celebrex, Celecoxib