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Reclast Infusions: Side-effects & Recovery time
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Dec 9 8:45am | Replies (644)Comment receiving replies
I hope you think long and hard before you decide to try what they are
telling you is your only choice. They did me the same way. I was so lucky
I found those women on an osteoporosis website on Facebook. Who told me
what happened to them on those “bone building” drugs. There is not much
you can do once you have osteonecrosis of the jaw. I think the FDA has not
done enough research on those drugs. Please let me know if you have any
questions about what I did. Do you have a strong family history of breast,
ovarian or uterine cancer? My mom had cervical cancer,but not so bad that
it took me away from using a low dose estrogen patch 0.025 mg twice a week
- Medicare even pays for half of it! Maybe ask your gynecologist. I have
a reprint from a medical journal about the effectiveness of this and you
don’t even need the whole patch! I’m not sure what I did with it but if
ifind it, I will let you know. My DEXA scan score was -5.9. Are you worse
than that? Whatever you do, i wish you all the very best. I had at least
four doctors telling me I had no choice so it took guts to do what i did.
My best friend’s mom died from complications of osteoporosis and she never
did anything more to treat it but get those infusions.
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I was going to have biodentical
But cancer and some of the side effects made me afraid. Did the low dosage of estrogen help your scores ?
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Hi parrotqueen, thank you for responding, I was never on Facebook but joined yesterday simply to become part of the support group you mentioned in your note. I requested to join and was accepted. I live in Ponte Vedra Beach and am hoping to meet someone from Jacksonville to share her info because I don’t know where to begin, other than I know I simply can’t go down the path of horrifying side effects. My score is a -3.3. I’ve been hypothyroid fir over 25 yrs. My parathyroid is 61, w/ a low serum Ca of 9.2 because of my malabsorption problems. I have no hx of fx to date thank God or Ca, have had a recent neg PAP and plan on getting a Mamogram so than I can see a bioidentical hormone replacement specialist to get started on hormone replacement. I would live your GYN reference if you could share it.
We permanently moved to PVB from MI in 2019 however when I was seen at Univ of MI for osteoporosis, the advise for injectable tax was the same, except they hadn’t yet advised for f/u w/ infusion therapy. Nonetheless, I wasn’t willing several yrs ago to risk side effects from drugs as I’m not now, particularly since I’m on so many because I have 2 cardiac stents and have had a minor stroke and a past closed head injury.
Are you in the PV area? Thank you again for getting back to me and for sharing the wonderful information I so needed.