Well right now as it stands I am on the weekly alendronate. I never realized that you had to take this with only water so for a whole year I have been taking this pill with juice or milk so i feel that it was all done for nothing. As for my calcium pill i use to buy the ones with the vitamin in it to help absorb but I never knew you cant take it with just anything else I have been reading up on this now a bit late but certain vitamins and food will stop it from totally been absorbe, plus i was told your body can only absorb so much at a time i thought they meant per day I was just taking one pill a day when now I am reading i should of been taking more like 3 but spread out. My specialist mislead me about prolia she never told me the severe side effects and never mentioned coming off it what could happen never mention while taking it could get spine fractures. This is why I am going to evaluate this all over sit back and find my numbers and see exactly where i stand before making a radical decision. All because I asked my family doctor about these needles from that question I was sent to a specialist out of town so it was a zoom call. I need to really look into this before i make a mistake maybe I am not that bad yet to jump into this. The specialist did not know what i was on how long i took it this made me wonder are you not corresponding with my family dr do you not have all those records on hand. I have a hard time trusting dr now a days cause of stuff like this. I prefer hearing peoples experience then a specialist that just hands out the presc