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Undecided choice of drugs for Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 8 8:12am | Replies (393)Comment receiving replies
guinivere, good answer, "no." Reclast isn't the worst osteoporosis drug, but why not take the best, Forteo. I think that is what McCormick recommends and what he has taken. Though it's probably time to visit your brother, I think you can gather as much from the McCormick videos.
I like Forteo and have been taking it without struggle for almost a year. Some have adverse reactions so you have to be ready to switch to Tymlos. I hope you get a good endocrinologist and the best medication. Oh, Forteo helps heal the broken bone. Reclast does not.
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I would like to take Forteo. Or Tymlos, but I for two reasons I can't rught now . First my financial aid app hasn't been acted on yet & I will need that with Tymlos. Not sure about Forteo. Either way the application process can take a long time & I am only about two weeks into it & I am scheduled to start Prolia next week. And meanwhile I have been set up with an appt for Prolia! Not happy.
Need to point out that my bone density test that revealed my osteoporosis was last October & I am still not on anythin except calcum & vitamin D! But I haven"t fallen at all since I did a year ago May & fractured a wrist. So part of me thinks, my god, get ON something & the other part says, you've made it this far. Stick it out until the insurance kicks in & then get on the med I want. Probably Forteo as it's cheaper than Tymlos, I think.
I REALLY coiuld use some advice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What are you going to take after two years on Forteo? I am afraid of Reclast but I have read that Fosomax, which I tolerated very well twenty years ago, does not work as well.