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Thank you for such a positive, uplifting comment about your Fosamax experience. You should be their poster child! If my two years will be as good as your experience I will be happy. I feel good, sleep good, eat good, walk and exercise with 3 lb weights. I am trying to regain some muscle mass. It is affecting my walking gait. But otherwise, except for some fatigue that comes on quickly in the afternoon, I think the two years my doctor suggested will go by fast and worryfree, I hope. Thanks again for the positve info!
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Dear Shirley74, please don’t let me scare you off Fosamax. I’ve just had a evening chat with my best friend Noeline, X-nurse and my age. She finished Fosamax after 7 years on it shortly before I started. She swears by it… She’s ‘still’ tall and has a straight back. I’m a bit of an invalid. So if you like me have osteoporosis Fosamax will definitely help you. As I said earlier, I cannot remember I had problems with pain when I started it’s the last year my back doesn’t want to be kind to me even though my Dexa scan has dramatically improved and only shows a little bit of osteopenia. Nothing to worry about at my/our age. You will notice a big gain at your next Dexa scan, guaranteed. Gain against pain, if any. Xx
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Oh no! No poster child? for me! I was so against Fosamax when it was suggested to me, that I blankly refused. The America FDA changed the recommended time limit for use from 10 years+ to 5 years maximum I believe, as the ‘maker’ Mercs? had so many lawsuits regarding side effects, especially ONJ. This was about 2012-2015 after recovering from chemotherapy and I’d read about ONJ, when the jaw collapses… so I was so against it. However, I ended up, quite fast, with a crooked spine and very bad Dexa scan result. So,
at the end, a bit too late,
I started Fosamax and as I’ve said my Dexa scan is good. I won’t do the 5 years though, 3 years are enough, especially because of my age, 77.
Thinking about it now…
I do have terrible back pain due to my crooked back. Don’t say it’s because of Fosamax? I do take 10 mg of m-Eslon SR
daily (morphine sulfate) twice daily.
Can’t remember I had problems when I started though.
Maybe I’ll stop taking it right now to find out if my pain disappears in a couple of months……???