FOSAMAX Reviews (ALENDRONATE SODIUM)Average Rating: 1.4 (1230 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FOSAMAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FOSAMAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Bad Bone Density test. Thin bones | Took 2nd on Monday. Tuesday knee swollen terrible. Tuesday night hands swollen. Wednesday morning neck stiff and aching every where. Hope this stops very soon. No more Fosamax for me. Done. | I was fine before I took this Med. | F | 68 | 2 weeks 70 | 6/7/2018 | 1 | For my bones | My whole skeleton/joints hurt. Shoulder, chest sore much pain. Back pain, hips hurt. Weird feeling. Couldn't sleep because of pain. Hurt to turn in bed. Feel like I have been beat in the worst way. | F | 61 | 1 days 70mg | 6/7/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Flu Like symptoms, severe bone, joint muscle pain. Leg pain and headache. | This is the worst medicine. The side effects are unreal. I don't know how long I will be down with these symptoms but I feel like someone kicked the daylights out of me. Everything hurts. Nightmares, can't sleep, can't turn my head, can barely move in bed and when I do, I cry out in absolute pain. This is medicine?? No thank you. | F | 54 | 1 days 30 1X W | 5/30/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Will never take this again. Taking this for 2 months. Constipated upper belly bloated and nauseated. Hoping this will go away. | F | 64 | 2 months 70mg | 4/16/2018 | 1 | For prevention of osteoporosis | Horrible drug. Was feeling great until started taking Fosamax. After 2nd dose all my joints were aching, headache, abdominal pain and excruciating pain and swelling in both knees. I am very active but now can barely walk and my knees have swollen to twice their size. Very painful. | Never, ever will I take this drug again. I just hope the side effects do not cause permanent damage and go away quickly! | F | 65 | 2 weeks 70 mg 1xwk | 4/5/2018 | 1 | Osteopenia | My primary care prescribed this, I have taken this exactly 2 months (not on anything else). My hair has started to fall out in globs, I have begun to have numbness in my left foot (I don't have diabetes) and now have dark circles under my eyes. All this started since I began taking fosamax. I just had blood work and all my levels are great so no issues. I do not recommend this medication, too many side effects. | F | 47 | 60 days 70mg | 4/3/2018 | 1 | Osteopenia | 2 months after I stopped taking Fosamax due to severe muscle and joint pain, I still had no relief - so I saw my primary care physician (who prescribed the poison) only to be told that it is unlikely my symptoms are from Fosamax!!!! She has ordered blood tests to rule out other diseases but really does not believe me that all this started after the Fosamax, said it could be a coincidence that something else has occurred at the same time! I did not have any of this horrible pain and swelling before. I had my blood drawn and am awaiting the lab results - it may be a blessing to find out that my symptoms are from something that can be treated instead of these horrible side effects of Fosamax for which there is no treatment. | F | 71 | 12 months 70mg 1X W | 3/29/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | On the first week of taking this drug I experienced tender feet on day 5, when I took my 2nd dosage l immediately broke out in a rash on both legs and my hands and wrists which latest 4 days, my legs were very painful to walk on, apon waking the next day l could hardly move, effecting my muscles bones and joints in my knees calfs ankles heels and my hands fingers and wrists, I have had no strength in them. The first week upon waking was debilitating, my second week eased a little upon waking but apart from that nothing has changed and it has now been a month. | This drug is poison and should be banned, I have seen 3 medical doctors 2 of which are specialists in the last month and they seem totally ignorant about the side effects of this drug, one doctor insisting to treat me for rheumatoid arthritis. I have since found out that even one of the local dentists now are handing out information on one of the side effects this drug can cause concerning Osteonecrosis of the jaw, they are claiming that 1 in 7 people who are taking Fosamax have complications after dental surgery. | F | 58 | 8 days 70mg 1X W | 3/19/2018 | 1 | Osteopenia | Pain and swelling of finger joints, knee pain and swelling, pain in both upper arms. Only medication I took was Fosamax, stopped a month and a half ago, no change yet. I am so angry, I was a very active 71 year old before this drug. Now it is difficult to even get out of bed in the morning. | F | 71 | 12 months 70 MG 1X W | 3/17/2018 | 1 | osteoporosis | I took the one weekly dose, the next day severe back and chest pain every joint feels stiff, Today is day 3, I still have the pain. my doctor said to stop, of course I will not take again, I am recovering from ankle fracture had surgery 10 weeks ago, and I was really improving with walking now this has set me back.I wish I would know how long will fosamax stay in my system. | F | 1 days | 3/13/2018 | 1 | Osteopenia | I experienced horrible diarrhea from Fosamax. I thought I had the flu but figured out it was from Fosamax. My doctor never explained this was a potential side effect. I’ve been off the drug for about a month now and am still having problems. | F | 54 | 21 days | 2/28/2018 | 1 | Bone loss | Cannot move, joint pain extremely severe muscle pain. Just horrible. Was making final plans. Thought I must be on my end days | WHY | F | 70 | 7 weeks 70mg | 11/29/2017 | 1 | Osteoarthritis | Severe pain in legs. My knee is much worse than before taking this. Horrible drug! | Do not take! Terrible side effects | F | 69 | 2 times 1X W | 11/26/2017 | 1 | Osteoporosis | 9 days ago I took my first and last Fosamax. I had so much pain everywhere in my body that was unlike pain I'd never felt before. I also continue to have stabbing head pain around my temples along with jawbone pain and aching teeth. I feel like I have been poisoned! When will this pain go away? | Horrible drug. | F | 62 | 1 days | 11/16/2017 | 2 | Osteoporosis | Horrible diarrhea and gas. I am afraid to eat anything. Flu like symptoms along with random stabbing pains including side of head. I feel exhausted. | F | 60 | 7 weeks 1X W | 10/19/2017 | 1 | Osteoporosis | This drug is horrible. I just started taking it for the first time this past Saturday. It is Wednesday and I have had severe stomach cramping, bloating and diarrhea.I am a 72 year old female in good health, active and follow a regular diet and exercise routine. The effects are horrible and are preventing me from living a normal lifestyle. I am not continuing this drug but will take a holistic approach instead. I hope these side effects stop. I don't understand why a doctor would even think about prescribing it. | BAD DRUG! | F | 5 days 70 MG 1X W | 10/4/2017 | 1 | Low bone density | Took it the first week and felt okay. The second week I noticed a bit of numbness in my left calve. A few weeks later I had general pain in all of my limbs. My legs ached so bad that I thought I had some sort of horrible disease. I also had tingling in my mouth and upper lip. After 7 weeks I opted to go off the fosamax. It's been two weeks since I stopped talking it. I feel better, but my legs still hurt quite a bit. | Also had 3 days of intense shoulder pain. Thought I slept funny. I'm betting that was the fosamax as well. I'm so disappointed. Now I don't know what to take. | F | 65 | 2 months Once week | 9/12/2017 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Couple days after taking 1st dose my eyes became extremely sensitive to light, with a black line in my vision, then my jaw and side of my face became extremely painful, then came severe stabbing head pain, I cannot even have A hair band or clip in my hair, sinus pain like broken glass in my sinuses, accompanied with an odor i can smell like my sinuses are rotting,my hand became tingly and would totally lock up, my foot would become numb and tingly also. Then came severe stabbing cervical spine pain, stabbing thorasic spine pain, with pain that wrapped around in my kidney area on both sides, rib pain that felt like they were broken, to take a breath is excruciating , abdominal pain, pain in an ankle that I had previously broke. The pain in my thorasic spine feels like it is deteriorating or broken. All this combined with severe fatigue, was majorly magnified after receiving triger point injections in the thorasic region, (non of the Dr's I went to over this period nor myself figured out it was from the Fosomax yet, so each symptom was being treated separately with no relief) a problem with memory, some hair loss. I literally feel poisoned. I am to the point that I have been bed ridden for 2 days. There is no way to position myself to relieve the pain, when I do walk I am hunched over because i can not straighten up. Even my hips hurt, literally everything hurts, a horrible debilitating kind of pain. A pain that makes you have to wonder if this is life threatening, be | I read the information insert for this drug, these side effects were not listed, so I kept taking it not realizing i was continuing to poison myself. I do not know yet if any of these symptoms are reversible. Greatful I have found information on line from other patients confirming what I am experiencing. I just really wish i knew if this hell is permanent or not. | F | 57 | 3 days 70 mg | 9/11/2017 | 1 | Oseoporosis | I took only one dose... my first dose one pill and the next day my body was all sore. Then the next day, today, I have horrible stomach pains all day and hasn't stopped. I am an active person who jogs every day and I couldn't even do anything g today. I hope this goes away. I will not take again and calling my doctor tomorrow. I was feeling so good before taking this shit. | F | 55 | 1 days | 9/10/2017 | 1 | osteoporosis | I took my first pill on a Saturday morning and was fine. Sunday I woke up and felt as though someone was stepping on my chest, neck and shoulders. I could barely move or lift anything. Will never take again. Going to try natural remedies. This should be pulled off the market and doctors should stop prescribing it until they have tried it themselves..... | The doctors that prescribe this medication must own stock in the company. They do not care about their patients, only the money involved. | M | 1 days 70 1X W | 9/4/2017 |