Forteo vs. Tymlos: Which did you choose?

@contentandwell, Yes I have the drug part or Medicare D which is then farmed out to another carrier. Since the Tymlos hasn' been a whole year....I can't fill in all the gaps.

Initially, I paid about $550 a month in the summer. Then it went down in the coverage gap. Then it went down further in the last two months. I picked up 3 prescriptions ...2 very pricey ones and gabapentin last Friday. The total was $90 so I am pretty sure that the Tymlos was about $50.

My advisor said I need to stay with the same carrier and that financially it will be about the same as last year. Is there something you want to know specifically? I am not good at this stuff at all. I can barely understand all the ins and outs of the plans. That is why I have an insurance advisor who keeps me "covered" pretty well. Have a restful sleep. Chris

@starkl @migizii @butch24350 I am in such a similar position. I thought I was doing great, exercising a lot and feeling good. Then I fell from a pre-syncope episode, fractured my “greater trochanter of L femur” (hip) and have been in pain ever since and worried about a fall, particularly with winter almost here, with its icy parking lots.
I can still be independent and have resumed exercise, painfully. I was told I cannot make anything worse so I can do what I can tolerate, the fracture is not a weight-bearing area.
I had been planning to start/resume doing yoga (I had done some in the past) but that’s out now, it’s too difficult to get down and back up from the floor.

This article came in my email this morning about osteoporosis medications. I have found “everydayhealth” to be a fairly reliable source for information and I think there are not too many sources for objective appraisals of medicines.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/osteoporosis-drugs-safe-dangerous/?slot=0&xid=nl_EHNLwomenshealth_2019-11-09_18569130&utm_source=Newsletters&nl_key=nl_womens_health&utm_content=2019-11-09&utm_campaign=Womens_Health&utm_term=creativeA
JK

Well which person should I have sued? I do have a suit against the outdoor shopping area where the walk was broken.But Tennessee has a very stringent test for how bad the sidewalk has to be broken and or what level of negligence occurred to allow the sidewalk to be in disrepair. Now, they will try to get out of it because of the second break. All I know is it’s been over a year, I was fine when I walked to the restaurant, had never fallen in my adult life and they’re still fighting just paying my medical bills ...let alone all the pain and suffering from the broken femur, cracked hip and pelvis and the IM Nailing exchange surgery. I was an independent 3-5 mile a day walker and now I am lucky to go to the store alone! It’s such an ugly business of blaming the victim! In fact the manager of the mall inadvertently told the intern my attorney sent
( he thought it was his insurance company rep) to take pictures, that my two friends and I were drinking in the bar in the corner for three hours and we were drunk. I don’t drink, we had been in town less than 2 hours and I had 3 conversations with the office staff at our resort just 30 minutes prior to the fall....Fully sober! Thanks for letting me vent!

Sadly, suing a company or any “entity” almost always has the cards stacked against the claimant. For the few stories that get published about some cheater making false claims and getting some huge payout, I think there are hundreds (or thousands) of people who should receive compensation, but get nothing. The state of Virginia really stacks the deck against people who get injured and try to sue for negligence. The interpretation is that if the claimant has any responsibility whatsoever for the injury (... you should have been paying more attention and not tripped over that big crack in the sidewalk, or that pool of soapy water on the floor, etc., etc.), then the claimant gets nothing. It’s crazy.

I am just completing my 10th month on Tymlos. I've had very little reaction. Similar to you at the beginning, but very slight, nothing that made me feel nervous or that I wanted to quit. I too was told, and all the research I've read supports, it needs to be followed up with something because you start losing the bone you built up. It's not like a bisphosphonate or prolia that stays in your body for a while. I am going to follow up with a 6 month iv dose of reclast. i didn't want the full dose in order to minimize any reaction. I may then do a second 6 months and then nothing for some years.

I am afraid of the Reclast -- have read so many reports of bad reactions. Women over 65 are more prone to the side affects; I am 80. I'm also concerned about the necrosis of the jaw -- I've had many dental problems and am concerned I might be more susceptible. Not sure what I'm going to do after the Tymlos -- looking into Chinese herbs and/or a Naturapath -- but I have several more months on Tymlos.

I am afraid of the Reclast -- have read so many reports of bad reactions. Women over 65 are more prone to the side affects; I am 80. I'm also concerned about the necrosis of the jaw -- I've had many dental problems and am concerned I might be more susceptible. Not sure what I'm going to do after the Tymlos -- looking into Chinese herbs and/or a Naturapath -- but I have several more months on Tymlos.

I am afraid of the Reclast -- have read so many reports of bad reactions. Women over 65 are more prone to the side affects; I am 80. I'm also concerned about the necrosis of the jaw -- I've had many dental problems and am concerned I might be more susceptible. Not sure what I'm going to do after the Tymlos -- looking into Chinese herbs and/or a Naturapath -- but I have several more months on Tymlos.