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Osteoporosis and Osteopenia treatment and prostate cancer?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 7 11:31am | Replies (22)
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@scottbeammeup

Thank you. The oncologist doubts that I have bone metastasis because my post-ADT testosterone readings have consistently dropped .4 to .1 and now to .04. Do the stronger bone building medications also have stronger side effects? I really feel I was misled re Orgovyx side effects and am going to be EXTREMELY cautious about ever taking any medication again.

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gently | @gently | Mar 22 3:32pm

scottbeammeup,
I don't have any side effects at all with Forteo. An advantage with Forteo and Tymlos is that they leave your system within 4 to 24 hours. So if you don't tolerate you just stop taking it and try something else. Reclast is particularly fraught because is can affect you for an entire year. Prolia is worse because even though it is six months, you can't stop taking it without risking multiple fractures. You have to take Reclast after.
Zometa, the same drug as Reclast, is given at lower doses and in intervals of months. A person is less likely to have intense side effects because the dose is lower. I think that most people ache in the joints with this class of drug.
Did you have a bone scan before ADT. It strikes me that your bone loss is fairly rapid. Is it possible that you have secondary cause for osteoporosis.

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