Updated:NOVARTIS RECLAST BEWARE CAUSES BROKEN FEMURS!!

NOVARTIS AND RECLAST UPDATE: This is an update to my story on Reclast from 2024. On October 23. 2024 I had an Atypical Fracture of my left leg just walking across kitchen floor. I had been on reclast for 3 years. But third year of reclast left leg was getting weaker and weaker. I was using a cane. My doctors had suggested Reclast would be good for my bones due to having osteopenia. It was my endocrinologist who suggested this. She did not tell me of the adverse effects of femur breaks in women over 70. They started me on reclast at 69. I was always a very active woman not a sit on the couch person. When left leg got weaker doctors did not know why. On October 23, 2024 break came walking across kitchen floor. Emergency Surgery followed by rehab in hospital. I was 72 then. 9 months later I thought I was seeing light at end of the tunnel. Back out in my yard repotting plants. It was July 23, 2025 watering with hose and right leg femur cracked and I fell to the ground. Again, Atypical fracture and emergency Surgery on right leg. Doctors in hospital were not surprised to hear this since I had been on reclast for previous 3 years. One doctor told me he never puts women on it over 70. My last Reclast was March 2024 (3rd iv infusion). First fracture was October 2024. Of course i stopped Reclast after first femur break. I am now 3 months out from right leg surgery (July 24, 2025 73 yrs old) and still have a walker. I go to out patient pt twice a week. Of course no more Reclast. Again, there was no great fall! Every woman I speak to I tell them not to let any women they love to be on this iv solution. If u read the small print online thru Novartis it shows a small percentage this will happen to. This time around I have chosen to speak to a lawyer. Novartis tried to contact me with their lawyers when they saw I was putting the word out on their product. Please be aware if u r 70 or older do not use Reclast! My gyn doctor told me last week he never puts any of his female patients on Reclast for he has seen this over and over again. Also, spoke with my Insurance company and they said Reclast usage has dropped significantly in last few years. It was my gp doctor who sent me to an endocrinologist (very young and fresh out of med school) who thought this was a good thing for a woman with osteopenia. Reclast/Novartis knew about femur fractures but were more interested in making money! I HOPE I have saved some other women from this iv solution and the pain from a femur break, largest bone in your body and mist painful to break.