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Any success stories about Evenity to share with fearful me?
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@callmekate: I’ve been on Evenity for 3months. I researched for 30 days and bit the bullet with Evenity because of good bone building in hip & lumbar spine. I didn’t want to start this procedure but I was afraid of fracture at 80 yrs. My Effects are mostly fatigue & not feeling my best (1st time I had bad-burps for a couple hours, but that was only once).
This is what I do to prepare for Evenity injections that I give myself in stomach:
Drink lots of water for 24 hrs prior
Take shots out of refer 1hr prior
Drink 1c caffeine coffee 1/2 hr prior & I eat 3 green olives (caffeine & salt supposed to prevent headaches by dilating blood arteries)
Put ice pack at injection site
At injection time I remove ice pack, swab injection area with alcohol, pinch-up some fatty tissue over 2 inches away from belly button and inject one syringe slowly; remove syringe slowly & repeat 2nd syringe.
Reposition ice pack on injection site.
I lay down & stay still for a couple hours or take a nap. Don’t get up & get active until you feel better.
You do what you think best, but I wanted to share my procedure in case you were on your own.
I don’t know any positive reports about Evenity except what others have shared on Mayo Connect.
Best of health to you… dbamos1945
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Hi, thank you for your thorough advice! I will use your ice before & after tips. 🙏
I am preparing for Evenity too, because I have a wedge fractured L1 vertebrae from a severe fall on July 13, 2025, and just that has worsened my spinal pain and scoliosis angle by a shocking amount, causing my lower ribs to now be “ sitting on my pelvis”. It is beyond shocking. The surgeon wants to have surgery side by side with start of Evenity bec he clearly feels my spine will worsen; the endocrinologist said absolutely not, six months minimum taking Evenity before my bones could hold the hardware. . . so who does one listen to?
Both the surgeon & endocrinologist feel the severity of reaction is from osteoporosis. I’m still mostly bedridden, but walking 8 blocks a day now to recover along with PT. I am terrified to start the drug, because I have frequent, lifelong intractable migraine since age 5, now 74.
Curious, when you lie down after teach injection until you feel better, what symptoms do you have immediately after each to need to recover & lie down?
Thank you again for your clear words. 💜