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Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 3, 2023 | Replies (1084)Comment receiving replies
@nancyguy My girlfriend took Fosomax and had jaw problems now she has Barret's Esophagus don't know if it related but she told me not to take it . Then she had somekind of shot almost did her in . My one Dr. is insisting I take something but my PCP has me just on vit. min. I did have 2 fractures but that was from lifting heavy things . A friend here has osteoporosis and says they just break and there is no feeling when they do . She has a hump also . Im for just staying on the regimen I'm on . Good luck to us
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Regarding bone breaks, I do not think hip fractures are painless. The mortality statistics related to hip fractures are not good. You sometimes never get out of a wheelchair. Vertebral compression fractures are no fun either and are very slow to heal. Curvature of the spine or the "hump" often leads to other problems.
So, in the end you have to be a gambler. (Drugs or no drugs).