I certainly hope you’re fine, just a bit shaken up. But I do want to offer my story as a cautionary tale. Last October I tripped over my vacuum cleaner, ricocheted off a wall, and landed on a wooden floor smack on my lumbar spine. After a few minutes I was able to get up. I went for an X-ray the next day, and was relieved to hear there was no fracture, since my spinal Z score is -3.3.

I had enough pain after several days that I called my physiatrist, who immediately ordered another X-ray and an MRI. Both showed a new compression fracture at L1, even though that wasn’t where the pain was.

My point is that it apparently can take some time for a fracture to show up. So unless you see a rapid decrease in pain, it might pay to try to get additional imaging done.

I had been struggling over what meds to take. Prolia hadn’t done much in about three years, so I went back on Fosamax in the spring, but that made me so sick that my gastroenterologist thought it wise to do an endoscopy (fortunately negative except for my longstanding GERD). So I sucked it up, spent the required thousands, and went on Tymlos in January l, so far w/o major problems.

My point is that if you continue to have pain, perhaps it might be a good idea to reconsider your entire situation. I hope your time on Evenity and Tymlos have you at a point where you can withstand a fall w/o breaking something. But it’s not always obvious at first.

Osteoporosis is no fun.