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Prolia discontinuation

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@jheieck

I have not stopped Prolia yet. I had a subsequent injection 7 months after my last shot, so mid January 2025. I have been seeing an endocrinologist to determine whether I have hyperparathyroidism. After several months and several tests, including a nuclear medicine test recently, it was discovered that I indeed do have a tumor on one of my parathyroid glands which has been causing many of my osteoporosis symptoms and high levels of calcium in my blood. The plan is to have the tumor removed and then monitor my blood to see if PHP and calcium levels drop and if the phosphorus level returns to normal. If those changes occur, I can begin to look at weaning off of Prolia and doing a one year regimen of Reclast, followed by weaning off that with the goal to keep my bone density scores closer to osteopenia or normal levels rather than osteoporosis. As far as my dental work that I postponed due to the ONJ risk, the plan is for me to wait till I'm 5 and 1/2 months out from my last Prolia shot to attempt to have one of the implants redone and see how that goes. Supposedly there is a small window of time approximately 2 to 3 weeks before your next Prolia injection that is safe to have dental work. My next Prolia shot is now due in mid July because my last shot was in January. That delay of one month allows me to plan my dental work for late June time frame. Fingers crossed that all goes okay. I will try to update the group with my progress on all of these issues as soon as I have any news to report.

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Thank you for posting, I did see where you had posted this earlier, sorry, I have a hard time searching in these posts. I wish you the best.