I never heard of Tymlos til seeing I this site last night (I had signed up but somehow never accessed it) So far I am trying to do this drug-free but I know that may be dreaming - my ex sister in law just had her first Reclast the other week, she is in her mid 50s and she pointed out to me that if weight bearing exercises even prevented osteoporosis much less reversed it she never would have gotten it, she's worked out w a trainer for years , plays tennis, fences, skis, runs. It's like the perfect athlete and there she was with a bad bone density test. And yet the side effects so scary - I get dizzy from more than 3 days of anything, otc non-steriodals, Tylenol, so when people mention tinnitus i worry that these drugs affect ears and even if they don't cause the jaw necrosis I'll be dizzy.

It is interesting that you mention Forteo tho. My aunt did that for years - expensive, put her in the donut hole - but a couple months ago I was having a tooth (that had a graft, exactly what you shouldn't do while taking the drugs) being checked by a new guy in my periodontist's practice . Told him my problem. He said you can take Forteo, it doesn't do that. My regular dentist at one point said do none of the new drugs, their half life is longer, just do Fosomax so you can stop taking it if you need a treatment.

I will look up Tymlos.

I am right now feeling dumb because I realized I got my dx at 62, that was only 5 years from menopause for me, I should have done HRT , I would have had a few years to build up bone density before it was too dangerous (although got BC at 66, would have of course blamed self even more if I'd done the HRT the prior 3 years ha ha).

THANKS for response. It is such a dilemma. And now I see a Margaret Martin video that says the way I've been doing squats - holding my 4 pound dumbbells in front as I squat - -is all wrong, that I'm putting a fracture causing load on my vertebrae. You could spend your life trying to find the answers to this.