Hi Laura: I finished my first year of Reclast following stopping Evenity after 9 months due to ever increasing joint pain in my right hand from month 5 to 9. Reclast unfortunately increased the pain and it spread to my left hand. Now I have decided to do Actonel but the once a week because the dosage is lower and hopefully won't cause any or less problems. When you said you had only mild aching with the once a month dosage did you have or are still having the aching with each dose; has the aching decreased with continued usage? As you can imagine I am very reluctant to take anything but realistically that is not a good idea. My hand pain is getting better but not back to anything near normal. But I can open jars now with a little help; so a plus. I'm just concerned that the hand pain will get worse with Actonel and I'll be back to where I was a 8 months ago.
Just an FYI after 9 months of Evenity my spine went from -3.6 to -3.0; the total hip didn't change -1.4; but the trabicular bone score (probably didn't spell that right) went from a 1.00 bad to 1.355 normal.