@njx58 I had a (now deceased) Physician friend who told me about drug company salespeople who would take them out to lavish restaurants, give them other perks to try to get them to prescribe their drugs. I don’t know if it’s still true today, but that’s how my ARPN acted about TYMLOS. She showed me how to do it, by quickly shoving it in to her abdomen. I mean she was PUSHING it on me to the point she was acting like a car sales person. I researched it. At first I wasn’t going to let her prescribe it and frankly I was surprised when my insurance approved it with only a $12 co-pay. After doing more research on YouTube by a Dr. who said that the studies were only conducted on still growing mice for two years and that the side effects would never have been done on growing toddlers, to give an example, I decided that made sense. Of course he was also trying to sell a supplement. But it did make sense. I read many journal articles also. I have been in such excruciating pain for so long because of crushed vertebrae from falling and a broken rib from just turning over trying to stand up, I decided that I really didn’t have anything to lose. I’m 75. Live alone and do not have good enough insurance to go to a nursing facility if I fell and broke my hip. Luckily, an epidural helped with the pain. I was actually considering going on opioids and DEFINITELY did not want to take those.
So, what’s the worst thing that could happen taking TYMLOS? Absolutely nothing.
But I did not appreciate the APRN’s approach.