Don’t trust them! My osteoporosis is very advanced now, but I’m 84 so to be expected. Doctors tried 10 years ago to get me to take Fosamax, but I had just had oral surgery and knew it would lead to jaw necrosis in me. Thank God I refused it. Fosamax is deadly.
Many years ago when I was going through menopause, and been diagnosed with osteopenia, I was put on Actonel, and told to take 50,000 units of Vitamin D once a week. At some point my bloodwork alarmed the P.A. at my Gastroenterologist's office. She asked me if I drank a lot of alcohol, which I didn't. She ordered a sonogram on my liver because she feared I had liver cancer. There was no cancer. She told me to stop taking the Actonel as she believed it was causing my liver enzymes to be out of whack. Once I stopped it, my liver enzymes went back to normal, and have been normal all these years. I'm 77 now. I also had to stop taking Vitamin D, because it turns out I have a hyper parathyroid, and it produces more calcium than I need. My calcium numbers are always high.
About two years ago, my Endocrinologist/Family Doctor wanted to put me on Fosamax as I now have patches of Osteoporosis. I told him about the problem I'd had with Actonel. Both meds are in the same drug classification. I took it for maybe a month, when my doctor changed two of my other meds: Prevastatin and Lisinopril, to Atorvastatin and Lisinopril with Hydrochlorothiazide. At the time he prescribed the Lisinopril with Hydrochlorothiazide, I advised him that I had been told to stop taking Hydrochlorothiazide back in 2015 after being hospitalized for very low levels of sodium, magnesium and potassium. He told me the amount in the new pill shouldn't cause a problem. However, within a week of taking the two new medications along with the Fosamax, my urine had turned orange, I felt weak, fatigued, shaky, had loss of appetite, and I had problems controlling my blood sugar. My doctor sent me for bloodwork, and everything he tested was either too high, or too low. Nothing was in the normal range. I stopped taking all three of the medications right then and there, because I knew it was the combo of one, two or all three meds that had brought on the symptoms.
When I went back to see my doctor, I told him I had stopped all three. He put me back on the Pravastatin and Lisinopril. When he asked about the Fosamax, I told him I would just deal with the Osteoporosis on my own. It took me 6 weeks to finally start feeling better. Thankfully, my Endocrinologist/Family Doctor retired that December, and I have since found a new family doctor and a new Endocrinologist that I like much better.
Mr m m had osteoporosis, as verified by a hip fracture and bone density scan.
They wanted him on Fosamax and he took it for a few weeks but didn’t like the side effects and the long term ones listed, so he went off it.
By eating better, exercising, and lots of Vitamin D, he’s managed to completely reverse it. His bone density scan
All without some poison from big pharma.