Yes, I get that vertebrae don’t heal the way an arm would. I hope you aren’t in too much pain and I get your point of view, especially given you personal experience, but so many women are scared into taking osteo-meds before they have a chance to even process their condition. My point, to the person I was responding to, was give yourself a minute to breathe and think and to come up with a plan that would suit her.

You have been through a lot and everything you wrote confirms exactly what I was saying, osteoporosis is not a one size fits all disease. You had cancer. That changes every thing. I think, depending on the cancer/cancer drugs, it’s pretty common to experience bone quality issues w/ cancer treatments. According to my endocrinologist, when ppl talk about bisphosphonates causing ONJ, most of those cases are in cancer patients who took higher doses of zoledronic acid. The other day, I took a 65 y.o. friend to the dentist to have a tooth that was cracked, pulled. Note, he does not have osteoporosis. While there, I asked the periodontist’s medical assistant, if they ever ran into patients with ONJ. She said there had been one person but that he’d also had cancer. I asked her specifically about ppl taking zoledronic acid for osteoporosis and she said, they’d never had any issues with their patients with osteoporosis who were on bisphosphonates. Again, my point is, we aren’t all dealing with the same issue.