Good for you for NOT taking Fosamax! But sorry to hear about your stress fractures. Hope you have plans and guidance from your doctor to get rods in there soon, because they will not heal on their own satisfactorily and that places you at a very high risk for a complete break. I am here to tell you that you do not want that to happen! However, regarding Fosamax, there are certain signs that go along with the Fosamax connection, such as a "bulge" at the break site etc. I do not hold this against my doctors for prescribing it, but the drug companies are just too big and too much! Doctors are lulled into prescribing the "newest and best" for their patients and are rewarded in many ways for doing so. I do feel that a doctor should have said after 3-4 years of usage that it had done it's job instead of keeping me on it for 10 years and a good year and a half beyond when the FDA issued a warning regarding the breaks. Already there was plenty of evidence that it caused a rotting jawbone. At any rate, I wish you well and though some things in life happen because they happen, there are too many coincidences with the Fosamax connection to be ignored. Vicki
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Good for you for NOT taking Fosamax! But sorry to hear about your stress fractures. Hope you have plans and guidance from your doctor to get rods in there soon, because they will not heal on their own satisfactorily and that places you at a very high risk for a complete break. I am here to tell you that you do not want that to happen! However, regarding Fosamax, there are certain signs that go along with the Fosamax connection, such as a "bulge" at the break site etc. I do not hold this against my doctors for prescribing it, but the drug companies are just too big and too much! Doctors are lulled into prescribing the "newest and best" for their patients and are rewarded in many ways for doing so. I do feel that a doctor should have said after 3-4 years of usage that it had done it's job instead of keeping me on it for 10 years and a good year and a half beyond when the FDA issued a warning regarding the breaks. Already there was plenty of evidence that it caused a rotting jawbone. At any rate, I wish you well and though some things in life happen because they happen, there are too many coincidences with the Fosamax connection to be ignored. Vicki
June 19, 2009 - 11:10amThis Comment
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