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My Experience on Evenity for Treating Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Apr 16 11:23am | Replies (967)Comment receiving replies
@charleneb I am not on Evenity, I am on Tymlos but I just wanted to make a comment here.
The daily injections take about two minutes, part of that is deciding using the diagram, where each shot should best be, and preparing the needle. The whole thing is quick and most often painless. Once in a while, I get a little twinge of discomfort but nothing that I would consider pain. I like that I just do it before I go to bed and I don't have to make appointments and go elsewhere.
I am on Medicare and getting it approved was not a problem. I had a minor hip fracture so I think that clinches it (a minimally displaced trochanteric femur fracture). I just don't want you to be afraid of the daily injections. The only negative for me is the cost. If you are on Medicare it will most likely cost about $560 a month initially but with such a large copay you do get into the "donut hole" quickly and the cost is greatly reduced. If you are not on Medicare then there are often programs where people pay nothing for it! The only way that happens if you are a Medicare recipient is if your income is less than $60,000 a year.
JK
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I have had to use those self injectors before, for something else, although it was on a weekly basis, not a daily basis. I wouldn't say I feared it or that it was very painful but my stomach became a mass of bruises even after just 10 weeks of weekly shots I have also had them done in a clinic and rehab setting for other reasons. My stomach was much less bruised when done that way.
My doctor said in home self injection treatments are not approved by Medicare as quickly and easily as ones done in the clinic. It only took a couple days for them to approve the Evenity. We have delayed starting it because I am going in on Tuesday for surgery to insert a rod in my right femur before it breaks like the left one did.
I agree that not having to go anywhere can be great. The clinic where I will be getting it done is 30 miles away. I try to look at it as a reason to get out of the house. If it weren't for Covid we would go out to eat after the shots.
Thank you for the concern.
Char