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Evenity and side effects: What helps joint and muscle pain?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Oct 9 6:23pm | Replies (157)Comment receiving replies
hopefullibrarian, quite helpful and thoughtful.
Because low blood calcium can cause tingling and pain in the hands or feet, Because Evenity can cause low blood calcium, you might want serum labs. Easier still to add calcium. I'd want to know, (and would have a foot x-ray) but would probably want to get rid of the pain right away. I hope it is just calcium.
"Evenity may also cause muscle spasms, neck pain, and burning or tingling (usually in the hands and feet)." https://www.healthline.com/health/drugs/evenity-side-effects--not my favorite source.
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My endo did some troubleshooting. It looks like it was excessively high serum B12 that caused the problem. After stopping my B12 supplements, the tingling quickly went away, and there hasn't been anymore pain. As @windyshores pointed out, excess B12 gets flushed out in the urine, so once I stopped taking it it was cleared out of my bloodstream pretty quickly.
Of course, I can't 100% sure, but it seems pretty unlikely that my tingling and pain were a side effect of Evenity.
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Thank you @gently. The pain fully went away about 24 hours later. I've been able to resume my exercises.
Hopefully it was a one off. I'll tell my doctor about it, and if it happens again, I'll definitely get my blood calcium tested. I appreciate the suggestion, and the link to the side effects even if it's not from your favorite source. LOL!