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Struggling with Tymlos medicine
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yds, you probably have a diligent md who follows the guidelines set by the manufacturers of the drug.
There aren't clinical trials on titration with Tymlos.
Very few of our endocrinologists study osteology the way they study immunology or metabology.
It's hard on doctors if patient knowledge opposes what they have learned (probably a long time ago). But we usually have only one maybe two diseases. They have hundreds of diseases to know. We should know more about our own diseases than they can possibly keep abreast of.
We have access to pub med just like they do, but we also have access to the histories of these intrepid members like vickizuckerman82 on Mayo Connect.
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@gently If the doctors are behind on the latest developments, I think the drug companies need to do better at acquiring and passing along information that they obtain . And when a patient has a problem, there should be better methods for the sharing of that experience between doctor and drug companies. When I was practicing as an RN in a cardiac setting, we often needed to change the way of administering a drug (or dosage) because of new information. Currently, it seems as though there is a lot of hype with every exciting new drug, but the people ordering it are not, in many cases, aware (or especially interested?) in the varied responses they may see. Just what I seem to be hearing ...