reclast infusion
Had my first reclast infusion in in February. It is now May and since then I have had lower back pain. I haven’t been able to work out at the gym as far as doing leg exercises because it seems to make it worse. I don’t know if this is a side effect or if it’s just something else has anybody had this issue?
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I had my second reclast infusion Feb 5 and within a few days, my right hand, wrist and forearm began to hurt. I have some arthritis in my right thumb joint at the base. The tendons feel like they are inflamed. Had X-rays at a walk-in clinic, they were normal. Said I had tendonitis possibly caused by the arthritis. Will see my GP tomorrow. Have had sporadic and intermittent bone/joint pain since taking reclast.
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6 ReactionsReclast is a HORRIBLE treatment. I had 1 infusion and past out. Nomore for me. That’s poison.
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3 ReactionsI had a Reclast treatment about a month ago. I will not do anymore of those! I had a terrible reaction to it. I woke up shaking in the middle of the night, tried to get up to go get a thermometer and found that I had no control of my muscles or spine, and couldn’t walk. I ached for days and had no control of my hands the next day. I had to miss teaching yoga for a couple of days. Within a week I was mostly back to normal. It was terrifying. My doctor never offered a slow infusion or a saline flush—I don’t know what they do, but I assume from other comments that that is supposed to help with side effects? Worts thing was, I called the doctor the next morning after the infusion, and no one would talk to me, I had to call again at 4pm because they didn’t call me back all day. Such a scary reaction and no support!
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6 ReactionsDebi,
I just posted about my horrible reaction to Reclast. It’s decisively poison to me! Don’t know how I’ll follow this up, but won’t do that again.
Donna at gbear
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4 ReactionsIt seems that Reclast really increases inflammation in the body. That’s my experience anyway.
Also a very bad reaction immediately after the infusion and for about a week.
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4 ReactionsI have new pain in my big toe, wrist and jaw since Reclast infusion. Thought maybe I was going a little crazy.
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2 ReactionsI practicly begged my Dr to give me a lower dose. He wouldn’t. I had no saline before or after. I passed out 12 hours later then had all the flu symptoms. So scary. Dr said no more. I don’t know what to do. There really isn’t anything else that I can take. I had Gastric Bypass years ago so not much out there for me to take.
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5 ReactionsMy Drs nurse said That me passing out had nothing to do with the infusion.
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2 ReactionsTry Prolia, which is a shot you get every six months. I had that for about
ten years with no side effects. But the doc said she thought I needed to
take a break from it, a “drug holiday”! I hope I can go back to that,
although the copay is very high.
Good luck to you!
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4 ReactionsI had mine last week and I thought I did fine, then on day 4, I had chills and extreme bone, joint and muscle pain. It’s day 8 post infusion and I am exhausted and have rotating joint pain. I already have arthritis, but this is arthritis of the worst ever. I’m supposed to take this again in 6 months, but can’t go through this again!
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