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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Aug 20 10:39pm | Replies (69)
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The fracture happened 14 months after taking the first Prolia shot. I’ve read that if you stop Prolia you risk fractures so I thought the fracture was caused by stopping the injections.
I see an internal medicine doctor as my primary care physician. I was not given any information on Prolia; not by my doctor or the hospital that administered the drug.
I too hope for some better informative decisions.
Thank you so much for your time.
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Your fracture might have been from rebound if there was no follow-up drug. Rebound means your bone density went back to what it was before the shot, or worse, and your fracture risk went up. Then again, maybe that one shot didn't address your osteoporosis and your bones continued to worsen anyway.
Primary care physicians/internists tend to prescribe bisphosphonates or Prolia because that is what insurance tells them to do, They consider these drugs "first line." For someone with a fracture, this is very misguided and insurance would cover more expensive bone builders for you since you have a fracture.
We really need an endocrinologist and a good one, and in your situation even more so because extracting yourself from Prolia is going to be complicated.