Day after tomorrow, I’ll have my fourth injections. I have felt okay other than fatigue a couple of days after the injections. Because two of the potential side effects are stroke and heart attack, I saw my cardiologist and my neurologist before I started Evenity. These are both serious, thoughtful physicians who seemed to know a lot about it. The neurologist sent me for an mri of the brain and a carotid artery ultrasound. Those were clear. The cardiologist had recently done some tests and he thought I was fit for Evenity treatment.
Two months ago, I had a hip replacement. I had a great surgeon who seemed supportive of the Evenity treatment. I told him that I had “mushy bones” and especially my right hip. He said not to worry- he was replacing that one with titanium. That all went well.
I am reading Keith McCormick’s book “Great Bones” He has a video on YouTube in which he discusses just drug treatment. He talks about all of the osteoporosis drugs.
He speaks pretty positively about Evenity. I think the medical world is excited about Evenity because it does what it is supposed to do and gets results.
I have a couple who I’ve been friends with for 35 years. We have coffee once a month and talk - and laugh - about our “radical drugs”. She is on a new drug for Parkinson’s and he’s getting chemo for a pretty serious cancer. They congratulated me for taking a drug that had had the black box warning removed.
So, I am hoping that I will get good results from Evenity and that I will continue to be symptom free except for the fatigue that one day. I did switch my injection to a Friday so that the fatigue would be over the weekend.
People have posted on here that they too were symptom free until their 5th or 6th injection. I am hoping that I will not experience that.
If I start to have other symptoms, but can live with them, I will finish the course of Evenity.
I’m 71 and still working full time. I work from my home office as a psychotherapist.
I pick two grandchildren up from school twice a week.
I am part of an environmental group and my focus is invasive species. I take one of my grandchildren on outings to study this and to destroy invasive species when we find them. Don’t cringe - we aren’t attacking animals - more like Chinese Tallow trees and Apple Snail eggs.
This is a long post- I apologize for that - but all that is to say that I am taking Evenity in the hopes that I can continue all these activities by avoiding a fracture.
I will report on my 4th injection which is in two days.