Reclast Infusions: Side-effects & Recovery time

It's been several months since I first commented here. I have been looking for help and information and still find this the best site for that and I want to say thank you all.

This has all been so helpful. At 81, I have recently been diagnosed with osteopenia in spine and neck and osteoporosis in my right hip. Infusion was suggested by my doctor which I initially refused as I wanted to find out more. I received so much help from this web site for an autoimmune illness (Polymyalgia rheumatica) over the past few years, so I looked for more information here on infusion from people who have experienced it. After 5 years of pain from PMR I am not in the mood for any more pain of any kind, and at 81 I don't want anything ele that makes my life more difficult. The helpful information I have read here has directed me to look for alternative methods of treatment. Infusion sounds so invasive and, as I also have Chronic Kidney Disease to take into consideration I am definitely not going to do anything that upsets that.

My rheumatologist put me on prednisone and just finished my course of treatment and…..well, I really do not feel any better. I do find myself pushing myself on activities that I partake in and the more I do, the better that day they feel. If I have a low key day I can hardly move my arm the next day and my left foot seems to hurt all the time as does my lower back on my right side. Waiting for follow-up with my rheumatologist!

Thank you for input. I took prednisone for ten days and it did nothing. If something comes up I will let you know.

It is 11 weeks a d my back continues to swell and have pain.
I tried everything and finally I decided to govto a really good acupuncturist. I have had three treatments, the first two did little. After the third treatment which was monday, i had a lot of relief. He said my back was swollen e everytime I was there. Mine is all in my right side. My hands still hurt some.my knees hurt too. He is just working on my back. When I told my dr. I had all these pains he said it was not the reclast..,HA they don’t believe us. I fired him. Starte with fever the night of the shot. Pain so bad I wound up in emergency room. I guess I am lucky though. I heard from two different people who knew people who had this who wound up in bed for a year. At least I’m able to get around and just be really uncomfortable.

It has been 15 months and I’m still feeling the results from my Reclast infusion; some nights my shoulders wake me out of a sound sleep and often hurt like the dickens. I find the more active that I am at the moment the less they hurt but hours later I pay the price. I go to physical therapy bi-weekly, not sure it really helps but feel I have to try something outside another infusion!

@dannyandebbietry
Try a. Upuncture…takes awhile
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@kaybollinger79 acupuncture

I had Reclast last November and in April I started with awful pain and lack of usage of left arm, which was arm for the infusion. I saw my rheumatologist yesterday for my annual visit and I told her of my discomfort, even though now the pain is not as bad and my use of my arm has improved, even though I still can not raise it straight over my head. She said probably my pain was due to the injection itself in the muscle and not the Reclast. Regardless I am not taking the Reclast again and she is putting me on Fosamax. I am hoping for no side effects from this but I will be asking the group their opinions. Hopefully your pain will subside after a few months.

@ladybugnc
I am puzzled as ReClast is given by infusion into a vein and not by intramuscular injection.

@dannyandebbie

I had same experience. My bones hurt for 12 months. Now feeling better and it’s time for another Reclast infusion and i am putting it off. I didn’t have side effects at the time of infusion, but bone pain in hips legs and shoulders, tired & drained after vacuuming, depressed. Doctors don’t really believe it’s the Reclast, but I know it changed how i felt.