BONIVA Reviews (IBANDRONATE SODIUM)Average Rating: 1.3 (1605 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BONIVA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BONIVA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Osteopenia | The first day after taking: severe flu-like symptoms, jaw,back, leg, head pain, trouble swallowing, lump in throat, fatigue | F | 52 | 1 days 30mg | 8/17/2012 | 1 | osteopenia | extreme muscle pain in both legs, increased pain in lower back, fractured pelvic bones, extreme sweating at night. | I am scared to death of this medicine and afraid to take any other products that claims to strengthen bones. I took my Boniva pill the first day of June, and am still unable to do normal housework. I can't even walk through the grocery store to buy groceries and have to depend on my son and husband to run errands for me. For the past two months, I have felt like a prisoner in my own home. | F | 77 | 1X M | 8/3/2012 | 1 | Osteopenia | Back, buttocks, legs,chest, neck pain hurts to breathe in, stiffness. | Feels like i've been hit by a truck. This came on the about 8 hours taking the medication. Dr. never told me this could happen otherwise I would not have taken it. I not going to take another tablet. | F | 48 | 1 days 150 mg 1X M | 8/1/2012 | 1 | Osteopenia | I thought I was having a heart attack...chest pain that went up into neck, shortness of breath; esophogial inflammation; fatigue; mucuos, flu-like symptoms; joint aches/pains, heartburn, dizziness/vertigo | I am a wreck!! I started taking Boniva 5 months ago. As the months passed, I began with one symptom, then another. At first, you don't think about a side-effect of medication. This is a very sly, ugly medication...it invades your body and creeps up on you....like a bad storm. During these past five months I kept wondering what was going on with me...what was wrong...I felt terrible...seemed like one thing and another...having to call off sick from my job. I have felt utterly miserable with fatigue, joint pain, chest heaviness, flu-like symptoms, pains here, pains there!! It has been frightening and terribly concerning...and definitely debilitating!!! As I have read other patient reviews I have to ask the medical profession and the FDA.....WHY is this medication being prescribed and still on the market?? There are profound and long-term side effects from women of all ages. It is time someone needs to listen....and ACT!! This has just about ruined my health and now may have to retire, because I cannot continue to work and feel this way...in addition it makes me appear as an unreliable employee. I am angry, frustrated and looking for answers. Now what?? Nothing to reverse the severe, daily trauma....just another symptom lurking to throw your life into a continued spiral of poor health. There should be a class action law suit against the distribution of this medication!! | F | 67 | 5 months 1X M | 7/26/2012 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Sudden extreme flu symptoms and loss of taste. I, too, felt like I had been poisoned after taking only one dose. Didn't connect it until reading other posts but my feet also started hurting and having a burning sensation on the bottom at night, and I am now wondering if Boniva caused this long term effect. I stopped taking it after just one dose when I found data that shows Boniva makes your bones look more dense in a bone scan because it keeps your old bone from sloughing off and it stops new bone growth. I'll take my chances without Boniva! | F | 53 | 1 days | 7/24/2012 | 1 | doctor prescribed | Stomach inflamed, jaws out of joint. loose teeth. terrible pain in right leg thigh. I have been off of it since Jan. still having terrible stomach problems | sorry I ever took the stuff. | F | 75 | 1 amonth 1X M | 7/22/2012 | 1 | osteoporosis | The next evening after I took my first dose I felt like I was coming down with the flu. I even had to call in sick from my job. I felt like this for a whole week. I couldn't eat anything, I would get horrible stomach pain. Not a good way to loose weight by any means. My left hip always hurt me a bit but now the other hip hurts. I also seem to feel "confused" and forgetful which was never this bad. Why is this drug on the market? I will not take it again. | F | 57 | 1 months 150mg 1X M | 7/15/2012 | 1 | preventive | I had no pain before starting Boniva over 1 year ago. Symptoms started with neck popping-joint pain-shoulders -hands..I have decided to stop and take calcium supplements hoping all pain eventually stops. | F | 53 | 1 years | 7/12/2012 | 1 | osteopenia | This drug just about ruined my life. Besides the acid reflux I experienced, and later had surgery for the damage to my esophagus, it caused my feet to hurt so badly I could not walk. It took approximately 2 years to get back to normal, and still have some problems. | F | 65 | 6 months 1X M | 7/10/2012 | 1 | osteoporosis | After researching, I threw away the free sample from the gyn and tore up the prescription. Instead, I built up my own immunity. I experienced the worst fall of my life few weeks, but was not in any pain and walked two more miles. And, no bones were broken even though my face went splat into concrete and badly bruised my shoulder and knee. I am 75 years old. So very thankful that I never took the Boniva prescribed by the doctor. | DON'T TAKE THIS POISONOUS "DRAIN CLEANER" (REMOVES SOAP SCUM FROM PLUMBING). TWO OF MY FRIENDS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED BY BONIVA. | F | 75 | 0 days 1X M | 7/9/2012 | 1 | Osteo | I took boniva injection twice, which was given every 3 months.. After 2nd injection severe joint pain and swelling. Was very active before. Now doctor says I have Rumatoid Arthritus which I know the Boniva caused it. i felt so good before taking this drug. | I'm praying and trusting God for a healing. I will never take Boniva again. This should be taken off the market. | F | 57 | 2 times 2X O | 7/6/2012 | 1 | Osteopenia | Bad don't take. I'm really discussed. | F | 62 | 1 years 150 mg 1X M | 7/5/2012 | 1 | Osteo | I am so glad I decided to check this out before I had my prescription filled!! The cost is outrageous and the side effect!!!! NO THANK YOU!!!! | F | 53 | 1X M | 7/3/2012 | 1 | osteopenia | leg pain, fatigue and not being able to sleep well during the night | I stopped taking Boniva in sept 2011 and every once in awhile I have fatigue and hurt all over. These are the same symptoms I had while on Boniva. DONT TAKE BONIVA. The symptoms take months to subside. I hope not years as on other reviews. | F | 64 | 360 days 30 mg 1X M | 6/24/2012 | 1 | Osteoporosis | headache, diarrhea, flu symptoms, nausea, fatigue, constipation, lower back pain, panic attacks (probably from worry about what was happening) | I will NEVER take this again, and won't even try another brand. Too scarey that I will get the same side effects. It's bad enough to have to wait a month and hope this all passes. I have never gotten side effects from anything in the past, but have felt everything possible with this drug. I was very scared the following day after taking the first pill that these symptoms wouldn't go away. They did, but still come back off and on. My one dose will run out in two weeks, and I'm hoping this nausea, constipation and fatigue will go away completely. I'll take my chances that I won't fall and break something before I'll try any of these drugs again. | F | 61 | 150 mg 1X M | 6/18/2012 | 1 | WHY IS THIS ON THE MARKET? WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?!? | POISON!!!!!!! Where is the FDA??? | F | 60 | 1X day | 6/2/2012 | 1 | osteopin | temporary paralysis and pain to point of anguish | do not take this | M | 70 | 2 days 150 1X M | 5/22/2012 | 1 | osteoporosis | acid reflux requiews surgery pain in back from a hemangioma, so bad had radiation, pain in leaft hip with bursitis. There is no words to describe the pain | I had no pain, no acid reflux, I was in great shape before Boniva, The pain incressed ever month when I took Boniva. It taking me almost three years of painfull test, and procedures, I felt like I made a trip to hell and back to get to be pain free | F | 67 | 18 months 150mg 1X M | 5/17/2012 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Diarrhea, flu symptoms, but mostly pain in knees, upper arm, fingers. difficulty turning over in bed, getting out of bed, or getting up and sitting down in a chair. | I recently posted on 11/16.10. After 2 1/2 years off Boniva I still have knee and arm pain. Dr. is giving me steroids like prednizone and wanting to give more horrible meds for rheumatoid arthritis. I got a message from one patient with the same diagnosis. Has anyone else taking Boniva been diagnosed with RA after complaining of joint pain? | F | 68 | 5 years 150 MG 1X M | 5/15/2012 | 1 | osteoporosis | I started with the drug Fosamax. One hour after taking that I had such bad stomach pain I called the doctor who said stop taking, it I will prescribe something else .Then started once a month Boniva . I had the worst pain in my thighs I have ever experienced . Sharp hot pain that came and went for days . Tried to talk to the Dr about it and she said .. oh that is from inflamation , it is not the Boniva . Funny never had it before ... Then the hip pain started a few months later . I told her about that and she sent me for an x-ray. Said to me there is no fracture , it is just a touch of arthritis . I read the insert and said to her, you don't think this could be the Boniva ? She said no the benefits out weigh the risk , just take it . Well now I have reached the 2 year mark and can hardly walk because of the pain in my hips and legs . Never had this pain before the Boniva . I had thought I was nuts , and it was not the drug . I have not had a good nights sleep in months because of | I would recommend extreme caution using this drug ... for some it may be a good thing , but I have taken my last dose !! | F | 60 | 2 years 150MG 1X M | 5/10/2012 |