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I am on Forteo injections. I beginning to think this is a money maker.
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: May 4 3:46pm | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
@vmcgrantham I don't know about kickbacks, she's probably just following protocol. Do you know your DEXA scores and have you ever fractured? If you haven't fractured and your DEXA score isn't too bad, tell your Dr you want to take a break from medications to do more research and decide what you want to do. Bones change very slowly, so taking a year to decide what to do is reasonable, in my opinion. My DEXA scores are severe, -4.1 in my spine and -2.7 in my hips. I have parathyroid issues so can't take Forteo or Tymlos. I read Fosamax doesn't offer much as far as fracture prevention, so I decided not to take any drugs. I'm 76 and have never fractured. My Dr wants me to take Fosamax, even said he'd prescribe 1/2 the normal dose, but he respects my opinion to refuse meds at this time. I'm taking a lot of supplements and hoping my DEXA scores at least stay the same and don't progress.
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@daisy17 I never fractured my bones myself, but I had it, but made it a brick wall and broke my fifth in both legs, but I was doing OK. I did get pain in the ankles on and off from it but being on forteo it hurts all over and I mean all over and I don’t know about the any other she will give me a choice about the other one that you were just talking about she’s telling me the Reclast or prolia there was a website that somebody gave me to look up if they do get kicked back or not and I did look it up and she is on that list so I don’t know but she gets more out of the forteo and she gets a lot of Reclast. In the winter time is cold out cause I’m gonna go State summer comes. I’m OK for spring settle down. I’m so I do have that kind of time but that deals with muscle and nurses because they say their muscles strict every time cold with the humidity over rain, but they said my phone cause I’m in physical therapy still the muscle cause I have weak muscle from my coming out of picking up thyroid medicine as soon as I walked out the door put me right into the big wall I was coming right out the door, so yeah, broken tib and fib in the pain in the back one doctor said that i will back pain down the road and I do have degenerative in my back but mild to moderate in some I have been taking D3,K2, and calcium but need to watch calcium because of my kidneys. And my calcium test shows 9.6 higher end of normal level which is 10.2 so calcium good I don’t know what to do. she says after getting off, forteo ,I should return to normal but I read it could take weeks. I wonder if she is saying that she can say it’s not the shots go back on it . I really don’t know