In their suit, the plaintiffs allege Fosamax is "defective, dangerous to human health, unfit and unsuitable to be marketed and sold in commerce and lacked the proper warnings as to the dangers associated with its ingestion."
The suit also alleges Merck pharmaceutical reps bribed physicians to prescribe Fosamax, and that the company knew of the medication's dangerous side effect but "maliciously" marketed the drug anyway.
View our page on Fosamax side effects to read what others have experienced with this drug or to share your own experience.
]]>This finding "is fully concordant with a similar analysis in women," noted Harri Sievänen, Ph.D., and Pekka Kannus, M.D., Ph.D., both of the UKK Institute in Tampere, Finland, in an accompanying editorial.]]> ]]>
A farmer all his life, he maintains a good appetite - he loves sweets, the family says - and a positive, upbeat outlook.
His birthday party has been postponed, but Krabbe says he is looking forward to it and to having an angel food cake with strawberries and ice cream.
With a positive attitude like that, there is no doubt that he will heal fast and live to enjoy may more birthdays.
]]>I was 11 when we found out that I had scoliosis. It was during a scoliosis check that they found it. It was just a small curvature but it was significant enough to where they had me go see a specialist.
A year later it had increased so much that we had me go into chiropractic care with Dr. Shelby of Shelby chiropractic. They had me doing exercises and traction. The traction started out with a contraption that made me get flushed and feeling really hot but after a while we stopped doing chiropractic for about 3-4 months and went back to it and by then he had a new way of approaching the scoliosis traction, instead of having me standing up he had me lying down.
]]> But since we had stopped for so long the scoliosis had progressed so rapidly, to 56 degrees, that it could not be stopped, only slowed down a tiny bit. So we went back to the specialist and she said that the only way to correct it would be surgery, and that not even a brace could stop it.After she said the word surgery I almost collapsed with fear. I had had surgery a year or two before hand.
So after about 6 months I finally had the surgery. I had to have 9 discs taken out of my back, I had a chest tube, and they had to remove a rib to get in through my front. When I awoke I felt so bad, and man was I in pain!
I was in the hospital for a week and then at my aunt's for another week because she is a nurse. She took real good care of me and even changed my dressings so well that when I went to get my staples taken out, my doctor told me that whoever was changing my dressings was doing an excellent job. My curvature went from 81 degrees to 35 degrees. My curve was the worst I had ever heard of. I went to a lot of websites about other people's surgeries and the largest curvature I had seen was 50-60 degrees.
I am feeling so much better now that the surgery is done and over with. I'm still on like 5 different pain meds but I'm in a lot less pain. I hope my story helps other people who are going to have the surgery done on themselves.
]]>I am so thankful for this site. My GYN (dr.) has been urging me to try Fosamax for a few years. I resisted because in general I prefer the more "natural" route.
After first dose, I woke up at night because when I opened and closed my right hand, the knuckles would click, almost like they were coming out of joint and then back into place ... very wierd! I must have done it in my sleep and woke up because it felt so strange. The knuckles in my right hand ache. After the second dose, I noticed that now my left hand knuckles are getting stiff. And I mentioned to my daughter the other day that my knees feel stiff and my forearm bone on each arm feels like I clunked it against something.
]]> Before Fosamax I had none of these bone/achy/pain issues. Call me naive, but I was thinking "maybe this is my bones densifying and this is what it feels like". Another side effect I am noticing is numbness and ache coming down from under my right arm, through my right elbow, into my right hand to the pinky. Sometimes my right hand knuckles around the pinky and ring finger feel "mushy". Now that I have read all of the postings, you can bet that I am pitching out all of these darn pills! My instinct told me not to take them, but I tried anyway. I already have TMJ and soft teeth - you can bet I don't want to start up anything in that area!!Check out Kevin Trudeau's work. He is on the cutting edge of busting the big Pharma and FDA.
Somebody needs to hold these people accountable!
Thank you for posting & God bless.
]]>Click here to read the concerns of doctors over the longterm safety of the drug. More and more cases of osteonecrosis and other Fosamax side effects are emerging. As with many other things, side effects occur after many years of use.
]]>Here is what has happened to me over the last few years.
]]> I have had at least 4 -6 rib fractures; T6, T7, and T-2 fractures in my back; my left foot has been fractured 3 times and it is now fractured. I think I fractured it around Dec. 9 and T-12 at the same time. I was dancing with a two year old at a Christmas party for some Veterans in a VA nursing home. It is hard not to be able to lift a child.My orthopedic doctor told me Friday I had to get my bones strengthened and quick. He is afraid I will break a femur or hip. Then I will be in big trouble. I am only 53, so it looks like I will have the rest of my lifetime in caution and pain.
I even fractured a rib lying on my stomach during an epidural on my back. I felt it when it happened. I waited about 3-4 weeks before I went to the orthopedic doctor because it takes about two or more weeks for the fracture to show up. When it starts to heal, he can find it. That is what my orthopedic doctor told me.
I have been on long term steroids for lung problems brought on by acid reflux. Long story. Now, I have Addison's Disease. My teeth are crumbling from my mouth. But I can't get my blood pressure down and my other health up enough to go have them fixed. Not to mention how much it is going to cost.
I am going to try to see if there is some sort of waiver they can do with the pharmaceutical companies to help me. My doctor gave me a script for Zetia (to lower my cholesterol). I told his nurse I couldn't afford it. She said she would tell him. Well, he sent me a script for Lopid, it costs more than the Zetia. Can't win!!!
I take over 21 different pills every morning. I usually miss the lunchtime dose and the bedtime dose. At least I try to do this. Hubby gets his meds from the VA, but we don't take the same meds. We tried, but I couldn't take his. My cholesterol is 328 (OUCH), triglycerides are 346. I tried taking cinnamon pills for over 3 months. That didn't help.
Thanks for letting me vent and maybe someone will have an idea that I can use for the bone building/strengthening that I so desperately need to do.
J :)
Our study, which controlled for factors that may affect the reliability of the data, shows that daily SSRI use is associated with a two-fold increase in bone fractures caused by low trauma events,'' said Dr. Brent Richards, lead author of the study, who is a former post-doctoral fellow at the McGill health centre, and is now based at King's College in London, England.
This study is particularly interesting because in recent months it was supposedly found that Prozac may increase bone mass in mice.
Once again, we are presented with conflicting studies. What a surprise!
]]>Bone breaks
Family history
Low dietary calcium and vitamin D
Excessive smoking or drinking alcohol
Low body weight
A chronic medical problem
Persistent back pain
Short height
Click on the link below to learn more about each.
]]>The researchers developed a revolutionary, software-based approach to detecting osteoporosis during routine dental X-rays by automatically measuring the thickness of part of the patient's lower jaw, according to the study published in the journal Bone.
Ordinary dental x-rays could detect osteoporosis automatically
Detecting osteoporosis via dental X-rays
Some cases of ONJ have appeared after someone using bisphosphonates has had a tooth pulled or some other dental procedure, but other cases have appeared “spontaneously,” according to a recent article in Dental Economics
“As far as the dental profession is concerned, there is a definite link [between ONJ and bisphosphonates] and there is no question about that,” Foulkes said. “Our controversy is how to deal with it.”]]>
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]]>"Treating animals for six weeks with Prozac resulted in an increase in trabecular bone mass," said study lead author Ricardo Battaglino, assistant member of the staff in the department of cytokine biology at the Forsyth Institute in Boston. "It was a pretty significant 60 percent increase."
The study is surprising because a previous study in children found that Prozac slowed bone growth. Also, the new study found that Prozac only built bone in mice with circulatin estrogen in their bodies.
"It looks like, to be effective in relation to bone loss, Prozac needs to be in the presence of estrogen." This has implications for women moving into menopause who lose estrogen and have an increased risk of osteoporosis.]]>
Women who drank cola every week had a bone density that was 5% lower than women who didn't drink any cola.
The researchers did not work out specifically what in cola was to blame, however other studies have suggested that phosphoric acid, which is found in the drink, may cause calcium to be excreted from the body.]]>