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Trying to choose supplements carefully

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 3 6:26pm | Replies (44)

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@tilou

Wow, wow, I cant believe all your good people are researching what drugs companies are not able to do on their own! That's why I dont want to take drugs until they can provide a sure and economic way for me to use them and, give me positive results. I think that after considering all those results of real people here on Mayo that living beings are the cobaye for all these pharma researching companies. If you can prove otherwise let me know.

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I think we may be on the same page. I am not anti-drug. My husband had Parkinson’s and before he died the drugs made his life a lot more tolerable. But I am very skeptical of these drugs. The bottom line for pharmaceutical companies is all about making money, and we are a very large and vulnerable group. The companies make billions of dollars with these drugs. My mother had six sisters. All seven of them had osteoporosis and none of them took drugs because they didn’t exist then. They had no major issues and all lived into their 90’s. I know some of you have had horrible experiences with fractures and therefore choose to take the drugs. I understand that. I know many of you have had positive results with the drugs. I know some of you have had horrible side effects. I guess the conclusion here is that we must each do what feels right to us.