I used the Marodyne platform for 7 years as it was the only option offered to me by my endocrinologist in 2013 besides Prolia. I had the first shot of Prolia with no problems but the second shot 6 months later I broke out in a rash. That left me only the machine. In spite of declining numbers on each Dexa scan she offered no other solutions. Since I had had breast cancer I was sent to this endocrinologist by my oncologist. This particular endocrinologist was a researcher in the cancer center and only treated breast cancer survivors. She left in 2020 and I went to a "regular" endocrinologist and am now using liquid Alendronate and have already seen improvement in my bone density. I found out later that my original endocrinologist had received a 1.6 million grant from the Dept. of Defense to conduct research on the vibrating platforms for bone health. She'd already been conducting research on her own before the grant with the founder of Marodyne, Dr Clinton Rubin from Stonybrook in NY. I was, as I'm sure many other patients of hers, were used as "lab rats" for the benefit of both these unethical doctors to try to prove that vibrating platforms can improve bone density. They never did but Marodyne is still selling machines for $3000 as if they are effective. I went from Osteopenia to severe Osteoporosis and I can definitely say it is a scam to line the pockets of unethical doctors and especially Marodyne. I wanted to believe in it because after doing chemo and radiation and long term medicine for cancer, I wanted to not have to take any more drugs. Cancer patients are a particularly vulnerable group to fall for this type of scam because of our experiences already with powerful drugs. In Europe vibrating platforms are only approved for Osteoporosis if they are also used in conjunction with a traditional osteoporosis medication. They are not approved at all in the US. Don't waste your time and money, but most importantly your bone health.

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