I have been on meloxicam for two months and the thing nobody warned me about is the reflux.

What helped was writing down what I could physically do that day rather than a pain score. Numbers lie, function does not.

Timing matters more than I expected. Taking it at the same hour every day made the reflux less random.

My doctor wants to separate tolerance from a genuine change in the underlying problem, which sounds sensible until you try to describe the difference in a ten minute appointment.

Would rather hear from people who have lived it than from the leaflet.