That's great that you've had improvement! Knowing that it works for others gives me a positive outlook. Good for you! I see my doctor in June and hopefully she'll schedule me for a second scan.

I've never had any gastrointestinal problems. Well, I take that back. At the beginning I did have a lot of gas, quite a lot more than usual! But that seems to have subsided. I don't have problems with constipation -- I make sure I eat a bowl of oatmeal with almond milk and blueberries most mornings. That helps greatly. I have the minor ache or pain, which may or may not be due to the Alendronate. But I can always blame it on that anyway!

I'm not sure what I think about the other meds. Like you, I would worry with the once a year injection. They all seem to have some major side effects, though in an extremely small sample of the population. Still...