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Prolia treatment for osteoporosis: What is your experience?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jul 13 3:27pm | Replies (1246)Comment receiving replies
This article says "as early as eight months" after discontinuing Prolia.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5915244/
My doctor didn't mention anything about Prolia side effects, only that I needed to take it to offset side effects of anastrozole that I started taking after completing chemo and radiation. I was already suffering nasty side effects from anastrozole when I got the Prolia injection and got some new side effects. That's when I looked up Prolia side effects and decided against using both of the drugs. I never saw the Prolia box, only the needle. It's been about six months since my one and only Prolia injection. I'm doing what I can to improve my bones with diet and exercise -- and even positive thinking (without it, there wouldn't be a placebo effect). If I get a recurrence of my cancer (which anastrozole is supposed to prevent, though it causes osteoporosis) or if I get spinal fractures, I'll post my experience. If I get run over by a truck, you probably won't be hearing from me. I do not recommend my particular decision to anyone else. If you are younger than me, have fewer age-related illnesses (and on and on), you will need to assess all the risk factors for your situation. Thank you to everyone who participates in the Mayo Clinic Connect conversations. I value your comments.
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I have good doctors now but I swear that the habit of double-checking everything has paid off. I was once prescribed penicillin by a doctor only three after telling him that I'm allergic to it. A friend was in the hospital with increasing doses of antibiotics to knock out a thriving infection until I called my pharmacist who pointed out the it could not be taken with the milk it was, well, being taken with every morning. My friend's doctor and PA didn't believe it until they double-checked online.
There are inexcusable things like doctors failing to adequately inform patients about drugs' specific protocols and risks and interference with other drugs or even foods that are not uncommon enough in my opinion. As a former president suggested, in reference to a different set of risks, "Trust but verify."
Dodge those trucks, we need your insights and wit!
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Usually patients who only have one injection will be just fine. At the osteoporosis clinic I go to at a major teaching hospital in an urban centre, the patients are strongly advised to not go beyond 7 months btwn Prolia injections. Stay well and watch out for those trucks:)