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Has anyone improved bone density without meds?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 25, 2023 | Replies (487)Comment receiving replies
My endocrin md is fighting for me to start Evenity . My
spine T score is -4.6. I am healthy and take no prescription drugs at all except for migraines. This whole process is so stressful and then trying to fight the insurance companies. They are saying that I need to start with a bisphosphonates such as Fosamax.
Just doesn’t make sense!
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Please check @windyshores reply below. She explains the “insurance” situation extremely well. I agree.
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Every doc I see says it is an outrage that insurance companies require starting with anti-resorptives that affect the effectiveness of the bone-builders. It needs to be the other way around.
One solution might be to bypass insurance and see if you can get patient assistance from Forteo (Lilly) or Tymlos (Radius) and sometimes Evenity (Amgen). Or if you are pre-Medicare there are coupons I believe.
If you try a bisphosphonate and it does not agree with you, your doc can tell insurance that you "failed it" and insurance might cooperate with what you need.
ps Evenity was really new two years ago. I mentioned it to my doc and he gave me the choice between Evenity and Tymlos (I cannot tolerate Forteo). I chose Tymlos because it had been around longer and also because at the time I believed I could do Evenity after Tymlos but not the other way around.