Sorry, I somehow lost everything in the midst of answering your last post. But has given me an opportunity to rethink this. First of all I am not a medical professional, and I am not comfortable advising you what you should or should not do. But it IS your body, and you only have ONE, so you need to take good care of it, right? I would advise you to put your question to the group on this site, that deals with Bones, Joints and Muscles. These are the people who really know about that stuff - as opposed to our PMR group who have those issues, but so many others as well. Unfortunately Prednisone has given us the marriage from hell. I hope you can get some good answers from these folks. You don't have to resign up or anything, just click on their group and pose your question. The answers will come in looking the same as the PMR group's posts. And I still think it would be a very good idea for you to do your own research on bisphosphonates. Also windyshores on this forum has tons of information on those meds. See if you can find some of her posts. Don't be in too big of a rush to decide what you do. Since you haven't even been diagnosed, there's no emergency. Take your time.