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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you all getting bone scans on your own? My dr refused even though I have a family history because I'm only 50. Said the rec was 65. [/quote] Switch doctors. I had my first in my 40s. Sadly, while my woo woo doctor recommended a dexa, he never told me about fosomax or anything else so mine turned into osteoporosis. [/quote] Given Fosamax's adverse side effects, it might have been a conscious decision on your doctor's part not to prescribe it.[/quote] I've not had any adverse side effects. Not one. Are you talking about the scary yet rare side effect of femurs breaking? I have questioned both an endocrinologist and a rheumatologist about this very topic while deciding if I wanted to take the medicine. In the professional medical opinion of these two people (one with a Doctor of Pharmacy in addition to his MD), this was not likely to happen and even less likely to happen before five years. At five years, they give you a medicine "holiday" to prevent the side effect. So, I'll listen to the two experts with many years of education and experience over what another doctor called my "quack doctor," who tried to give me $200 supplements to "cure" tinnitus, which can't be cured according to medical science. And then sent me for a DEXA while giving me not one lick of advice about what to do about the osteopenia -- whether medicine, diet, or exercise. He offered nothing even though diet and exercise don't have side effects. So, it wasn't due to the side effects of Fosomax that he didn't offer advice. He probably didn't even know about the side effects because he was so busy ringing up another $200 charge and telling me I have Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. [/quote]
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