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Choosing Our Poison
Our bodies are very complex entities. The drugs used to treat Osteoporosis can also affect other functions but that often seems to be ignored or glossed over. I wish some expert would be brave enough to publish a paper listing the possible ramifications for each drug.
For Tymlos and Forteo, the medication also controls abdominal fat formation.
For Evenity, Sclerstin moderation may also play a role in plaque in coronary arteries.
Prolia decreases immunity.
Those are a few examples that come quickly to my mind ad I admit I may be in error on these
We NEED to be aware of what other functions could be affected to choose wisely. I have a bone cancer with my immunity already being depressed. I need a drug that does not depress that further or have a negative effect on my bone marrow.
Doctors and pharmaceutical companies must start treating us a whole entities and not just bones.
Enough with my rant.
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@normahorn I have no idea what you are saying to me?
Though I don't understand it, it does have a negative feel to it? It seems you are taking my brief post in support of exercise for heart health to imply I meant something negative for those who cannot engage in vigorous exercise. And that that somehow makes medication irrelevant. I don't understand what that even means and I had no intention of entering into whatever area of thinking or argument that even is? It's as if I stumbled into some sort of controversy I didn't even know existed.
Again, my brief post was just in support of another posters endorsement of exercise and was not an attack on anything else or anyone's particular situation.
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