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Immediate and severe Tymlos side effects.
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Aug 19 3:52am | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
I've been on annual reclast for 5 years. The odd thing is that my bone loss is stable my it has become easier th fracture my bones. When I got a compression fracture pulling weeds I went to an orthopedic doctor specializing in osteoporosis who suggested evenity. I really feel that my rheumatoid wasn't aggregate enough in my treatment. She kept telling me that when I'm old I'll be in a wheelchair. That's not necessarily so, my new md has told me
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@daun44 Reclast will increase bone density by reducing bone turnover, not by building new bone. So if taken for more than 3-5 years (they found out after it went on the market!) bone quality becomes a problem even if bone density is improving. That is why some- not many but some- have atypical femur fractures or jaw necrosis if on bisphosphonates too long.
@beanieone those are indeed amazing gains and it is reassuring that you got them with past use of Reclast. I have been told and read that both arthritis and fractures can make bones look denser on the DEXA. My gains on Tymlos were 19% on spine and 9% on hip. They omitted L1 and L5 that had fractured but included L2 so I recalculated and my score might be -2.6, not -2.5, due to that fracture (up from -3.7).
I have kept a chart of DEXA's since 2001 and have learned to go by trends over multiple scans so I take the message overall - for you and me- of pretty impressive gains regardless of obstacles to accuracy that might be valid.