Dannyandebbie, First of all, I cracked up when I read that you wanted to duck tape your arm to your side at night. Ha!! It's sad that we want to resort to McGiver techniques to get relief from the pain.
As I mentioned, I went to another Rheumatologist this past Friday. I was afraid she was going to say "It's not the Reclast." She stopped short of that, probably because I mentioned that that was what I had been hearing for a year and a half. Instead she said basically that we should forget about the Reclast and zero in on fixing the side effects. And she did listen carefully to my complaints of severe dizziness and sometimes excruciating pain in my right foot. She kind of ignored my other side effects, but if she can fix those two it will be a step in the right direction.
But I don't want to just fix the side effects, I want a doctor to tell me it was the Reclast. I'm convinced it was because I didn't have these problems before the Reclast. And since then I've read more about the side effects in these connect pages and outside sources. Took me awhile to accept that it was the Reclast causing the problems, especially since several doctors said, "It's not the Reclast." How dare they.
So I have a follow up visit with her, but not for three months. Hard to get doctors appointments these days. I'm going to push her for a definitive answer to the question,"Is it the Reclast?" If I can't get it from her I'm going to continue on my quest to find a doctor who recognizes the horrible side effects of this drug. I feel like there are a whole lot of people out there who are trying to protect it, either for the drug company's sake or the doctor's sake.