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I took 3 months of Evenity shots for low bone density because I have not had any prior stroke or heart incidents. After 3 months I developed severe heart arrhythmias that were occurring several times a day. I went to see my cardiologist and it happened while I was on an EKG machine, so they recorded the whole thing. My heart went to 230 beats per minute for a minute and then dropped back down to 120, then went back to 230. I was oscillating like that for quite a few minutes as I sat on a chair, after getting off the EKG machine. I suspect that if I had any vascular blockages in my system, I would have had a stroke right then and there. I think the Evenity shots caused the arrhythmia episodes. I had to have an ablation heart surgery within 2 weeks. So in order to prevent a POSSIBLE bone issue later in life, I ended having heart surgery immediately. This is NOT a good tradeoff.

Since getting off the Evenity shots, all the arrhythmia episodes went away, thank goodness.

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Wow...that was definitely NOT a good trade-off. I'm so glad your arrythmia episodes are gone, but that ablation surgery was not on your radar before the Evenity. Thank you for sharing this. This is what I am afraid of going forward with any other meds....starting down the cycle of taking one thing to fix a problem, which causes another issue leading to another med and on and on. Every day I take the Tymlos shot I question if I'm really doing the right thing in the long run. Yes, anabolics build bone, but what kind of bone? Is it just dexa test passable, reaching some arbitrary magic t score number creating bone with no substance, or is the bone truly strong? Again thank you for sharing your experience with Evenity.
Cheers!