yes, and you know what helped me make the decision to stay with it? someone (either on this board or elsewhere, can't remember) wrote, if you had cancer that could be treated with chemo, would you leave your cancer untreated because chemo has uncomfortable side effects? somehow that gave me a diiferent perspective. we might not think of osteoporosis as being as serious as cancer, but as i mentioned before, i have seen the older women in my family become completely debilitated by it -- permanently folded over until the end of their lives.