I had my 11th Evenity shots yesterday and have only experienced a tenderness at the injection site on my left arm. Basically, that is all I have ever experienced in the previous months also. I have an appointment next week to discuss what is next after my 12th shots and try to determine when and what it will be.
This journey with OP is truly an individual one, as evidenced by all the posts available on this website; every journey is so unique, but being able to read everybody's posts about their experiences has been so helpful and informative.
I have been trying to do my due diligence and read as much as I can and ask questions to whomever I can to try to make sense of my own experience also.
I have since come to the conclusion that my breast cancer in 2014 and the resultant radiation for seven weeks may have cured my cancer, but it did my spine no favors. I had my first compression fracture in 2017 (T-7) and was put on alendronate for 4 1/2 yrs. After a DEXA revealed no further bone loss, I was given a drug holiday. In January of 2023, I experienced my second compression fracture (T-3). An MRI revealed that 2-4 additional vertebra are weakened as well and that is how I agreed to the Evenity. The irony is, that my lumbar dexas have always been in the normal-osteopenia range. Dexa reveals nothing about what is going on in the upper spine.
Family history suggests that I probably would eventually develop osteoporosis at some point in my life (my mother experienced her 1st (out of 10) compression fracture at age 87 (she passed away just 4 wks shy of her 100th birthday). The last decade of her life was spent in a lot of pain. At 76, I am anxious to avoid as much of that as possible, if possible.
I wonder why do bone screening scans not include the upper spine as well as lumbar?