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Disappointing update on Tymlos
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Mar 25 7:51am | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
@oopsiedaisy unfortunately, I did fracture my L1 vertebra in October 2023, but the cause is a bit ambiguous. Obviously osteoporosis didn’t help, but I fell after I tripped over my canister vacuum, tried to recover, ricocheted around the room, slammed into a closet door, and wound up falling hard on my lumbar spine. I don’t consider it out of the question that I would have fractured even if my spine were stronger. That is the only fracture I’ve had so far (crossing fingers)! And it has healed and is stable.
It was after this happened that my endo said it was time for an anabolic agent to try to strengthen my bones. Unfortunately, I turned out not to be a great advertisement for tymlos.
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@anewyorker I remember reading your story before. Your fracture timeline is similar to mine; I fractured my thoracic spine bending over my tub and pressing down hard on my ribcage back in December 2023. I was started on anabolics for the same reason.
I’ve had a couple of fractures before but both were the result of a motorcycle accident (collarbone and transverse process on my spine). This was a situation where one would be expected to fracture and it was amazing I didn’t have a worse fracture than I did considering I had osteopenia in my spine and osteoporosis in my hip at the time.
The odds of having another vertebral fracture within twelve months is 7 to 19% so it looks like we’ve both beaten the odds. I’ll take that as good news.