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 |
| 4 | to deter the effects of Arimidex | None | I am taking extra Calcium and Vitamin D along with the Boniva which I have been taking for 3 months. I am taking it to deter the side effects of Arimidex for Breast Cancer. I must say -- I have no side effects from Boniva -- and no achy bones | F | 57 | 3 months | 9/19/2007 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Took this pill after having it on my table for 4 months...Was scared, as the list of side effects was so scary sounding. Then I finally took it one day when I got brave and OH boy....18 hours later I got a pain/ache in my lower back side...It felt like it was in an organ.....went to bed and I could not turn my body or sleep on my right side as it hurt so much. Could hardly sleep and at 6am it spread to my back...just that quick. Then it spread to my hip and joint area and the pain was so severe I was having like I have never had before...Like in the core of my very bone...I could not walk, or sit as the pain was so intense. My Dr. gave me Vicodin to take every 2-4 hours for this #10 on the scale pain......What a poison pill this crap is and approved by the FDA....OMG the most severe pain I have ever had. Long lasting for a week...on Pain meds. Never take this pill ever again. POISON use at your own risk...should be labeled on this medication!!! | NEVER AGAIN One month 1st time and LAST time for this FDA approved pill....(POISON) take at your own risk! | F | 60 | 1 days | 9/19/2007 | 1 | osteoporosis | nausea, diarrhea, trouble sleeping due to the terrible pain, flu symptoms, under rib cage aches, shoulder aches, can't stand longer than half hour, chest heavy feeling,can hardly walk due to joint pain, can bearly turn steering wheel when driving car, can not pick up anything without having shoulder pain. | This medicine should be taken off the market. After I took medicine, in about three hours later, I started to get sick. My doctor said that boniva has to just work out of my system. First time I took pill which was on 09/13/07 and would never take it again. | F | | 9/19/2007 | 1 | Osteoporosis | On May 22 2007 I had the IV injection and 24 hours later I felt I was suffering the flu with aching all over. It was so severe, I went to bed. Upon waking the next morning, I was totally incapacitated, needed help getting out of bed, couldn't take a deep breath, needed help getting dressed, needed help going to the bathroom, and experienced hot flashes. These symptoms lasted for almost 2 weeks and to this day, still have neck pain. | Bone Specialist was simply not responsive to any of my problems after taking Boniva. His comments were that he'd never heard of such complaints before and suggested I take a couple of Aleve. Since then I have dumped the Doctor and in consultation with my Gynecologist have increased my Vitamin D and other natural calcium sources. | F | 61 | 3 months | 9/18/2007 | 1 | To help keep bones healthy | Serious joint pain, muscle pain overall extreme discomfort. | Not a good drug. Took for three months, one a month. | F | 60 | | 9/16/2007 | 1 | OSTEOPOROSIS | TOOK BONIVA ONE HOUR PRIOR TO BREAKFAST. FINE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WENT TO BED AROUND 8 P.M. WOKE UP AT 2:00 AM MORE SICK THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN IN MY LIFE. VOMITTING AND THEN DIARRHEA. PAIN IN MY BACK AT THE SHOULDER LEVELS WAS INTENSE. HAD LESS INTENSE PAIN IN LOWER BACK. SYMPTOMS CONTINUE BUT SEEM TO BE IMPROVING TODAY - DAY THREE! | I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG TO ANYONE AND I THINK THE FDA PREMATURELY APPROVED BONIVA. I THINK A LOT OF DRUGS ARE STAMPED FOR APPROVAL WITH INSUFFIENT CLINICAL DATA OR WITH DATA WHICH HAS BEEN MANIPULATED BY THE DRUG COMPANIES PERHAPS. SOMEWHERE IN THE LINE OF APPROVAL SOMETHING IS DRASTICALLY WRONG. | F | 67 | 3 days | 9/13/2007 | 1 | To build bone density | I took my first - and only dose - Sunday morning 9/9 - as instructed. By noon Monday, 9/10 I was experiencing back and muscle pain all over my torso. I felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to me. I couldn't even take a deep breath, getting up out of a chair was toturous. I have felt an ovary explode and only screamed or cried at the point of it bursting, so I have a very high tolerance for pain. But last night I couldn't sleep becuase everything was hurting so badly, I just laid in bed and sobbed. I am an otherwise healthy, active 45 yr old woman who walked my 70 lb dog daily until last night. I couldn't even walk her because every step reverberated the pain throughut my torso. My sternum, my ribs, shoulds, neck - even my breasts are painful!! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! | I will be sending a letter to the FDA, the manufacturer and hope they take this drug off the market until further testing or at least full disclosure is made part of the packaging and promos that run every 5 minutes. I feel so taken advantage of....tsk! tsk! I go back to my doctor this Friday and let's just say he is going to get an eraful about this 'health product'! Let me grow old naturally!! | F | 45 | 3 days | 9/12/2007 | 1 | doctor reccomended for prevention o | FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS ??????? you feel like your dying ...chills, feverish , aches ,lost of strenghth ....couldn't even see straight. after 1 monthly pill !! Believe the people here................... | F | 52 | 1 days | 9/11/2007 | 1 | bone thinning | I can hardly walk when I get up the morning. After I get going the pain in my feet get better, but it's still there. Also, my hip bones may ache at times. | I tried taking this drug once before even after I was warned by others that it had bad side effects. I stopped taking it and went to my chiropractor who said my body was way out of whack. I thought that was the reason for my pain, so I started back taking it recently, but I've had it with Boniva. Never again. | F | 56 | 2 months | 9/10/2007 | 1 | bone loss | legs and arm ache, thought I had the flu. Vomiting | OMG thank you for letting me know its the drug and not me How long till its out of my system? | F | 49 | 5 months | 9/10/2007 | 1 | borderline osteoporosis | neck pain and stiffness, back, shoulder pain, flu-like symptoms, spacey feeling, lower jaw pain (especially where I had dental work done in the past) nausea, bloating, loss of appetite, muscle aches and stiffness, lethargy, hands and fingers stiff, ache - and unable to open jars or make a fist, chest (sternum) discomfort, ringing of ears, headache, burning feeling of joints upon movement, weak. | Took first pill 2 days ago - just a little heartburn after swallowing the pill, burping....then 36 hrs later all of my symptoms started. I will never take Boniva again...and I am going to file a complaint with FDA and with Roche. Please, if others have had these side effects and are now over them - please post your experience to encourage those of us who are suffering. | F | 58 | 3 days | 9/9/2007 | 1 | osteoporosis | I had purged my med list of all meds with back pain as a side effect and had been feeling great. New doctor concerned about my osteoporosis and height loss suggested Boniva. Tried monthly oral for 2 months. Due to reflux issues he suggested the IV. April 2007 first IV. Niggling back pain started so I started seeing a Chiropractor but no real relief for mild to moderate pain. On the 2nd of July I had my second IV. That evening back muscle pain started ratcheting up and by the 4th of July I was in severe muscle spasms. Flexeril & ibuprofen gave minor relief. A chiropractor specializing in soft tissue treatment (+ flexeril & ibuprofen) gave short periods of relief. Slowly the back pain is subsiding after 9 weeks. I have also had pain in the arches of my feet and charley-horses in calves. Dr. doesn't think that this was caused by Boniva and that symptoms are coincidental. I felt great until I started Boniva. I do not intend to take that risk again as I have been barely | I am afraid that we are victims of advertising drugs that are not really the miracle cures that are portrayed to us. The only miracle cure is in the pocketbook of the drug companies. | F | 63 | 7 months | 9/5/2007 | 1 | Osteopenia | The day I took Boniva, I ended up with severe diarrehea and the next day I had to leave work with severe nausea and very severe "flu like" syntoms. I hurt so badly, that I could not stand to be touched. Every muscle and bone hurt in my body. Since then, every bone that I have had a problem with (due to a horse rolling on me 20 years ago) hurts so badly that it is difficult to sit at my desk and I can not stand for any length of time. I seem to be better when I move around a lot. It has been 2 1/2 weeks since I took my one and only dose and I have a call in to the doctor for severe back pain, hip pain, left (yes, left) shoulder pain, and neck pain. Last night I stood at the kitchen sink for 15 minutes and had excruciating pain. My rib cage felt like it was caving in on itself. | This is really poisen to my system. I asked the doctor what the side effects were and she said they were mild. I really wonder if I will ever feel right again. The pain is incredible. No more Boniva or any other like drugs for me! Will do soy, calcium and vitamin D. | F | 57 | 17 days | 9/5/2007 | 4 | Thinning bones | Do people actually expect not to have side effects and other symptoms when taking a drug that actually grows bone?? A bone fracture will definitely cause discomfort, infection and possible death. Quit belly aching and take your medicine! | F | 62 | 4 months | 9/3/2007 | 4 | osteopenia | I've been taking Boniva for well over a year for osteopenia. My bone density has remained the same, so perhaps it's keeping me from further bone loss. I have had no side effects that I'm aware of. While I have trouble staying asleep as well as trouble losing weight, my gynecologist has told me that these are very common post-menapausal symptoms so I don't attribute it to any medication, including Boniva. | F | 64 | 20 months | 9/3/2007 | 2 | Osteopenia | Aching and stiffness in my neck,shoulders and back. It is so severe that I feel 100 years old! The pain lasts for 3 weeks or so and then gets somewhat better, before I take my next dose. | I am 55 years old, and in excellent health. I was diagnosed with Osteopenia two years ago and started taking Fosamax. I took Fosamax for 1 year, when I learned about Boniva from TV advertising. At my next annual checkup, I asked my gynecologist for Boniva instead of Fosamax because the dosing appealed to me. I have been taking Boniva for 1 year, and have just had my second bone scan. My gynecologist told me that I have regained some bone density, and he told me to continue taking the Boniva. For 4 or 5 months prior to my exam, I have been experiencing really sore neck, shoulder, and back pain. Aching and stiffness that just won't go away and lasts for a few weeks. I feel like an old lady . The aching almost goes away before taking my next month's dose. The pain goes on, but I've been ignoring it, chalking it up to getting older, and not ever connecting it to possible side effects of the drug. I didn't even complain to my physician! After reading the testimony on the website, I can now | F | 55 | 15 months | 8/31/2007 | 1 | Osteoporosis | I took my second Boniva IV injection over two weeks ago, and I am still having back muscle pain and chest pains. I was literally crippled for several days after taking the Boniva. My doctor told me after the first injection that the symptoms that I was having could not possibly be the Boniva - well, think again!! I will NOT be taking the third one! The next one could permanently cripple me or kill me! | F | 59 | 6 days | 8/31/2007 | 3 | Oseomalacia, osteoporosis | First Boniva injection in May was great. Bone pain improved. Second injection in August was horrible. Experienced severe bone pain lasting three days, muscle spasms, headache, nausea. | I work in the medical field and have had other patients state they have experienced the same effects after taking second injection. | F | 54 | | 8/30/2007 | 4 | significant osteopenia | The first time I took it, I had pretty much everything - the flu-like symptoms, the aches, the weakness. After reading this site, I was reluctant to try again. However, my Dr convinced me to try it once more, and everything was fine this time. So, those of you who had a bad first experience, try it again - it might just be OK. Also, I think that getting lots of calcium in my diet (not supplements - milk and yogurt) helps. I feel stronger than before. | This is a strong drug, and one should expect side effects. But theh option for me (being crippled with fractures) is not acceptable. I hope to be able to use this to help me get more density with my exercise and diet so I can stop taking it later. | F | 51 | 2 months | 8/27/2007 | 1 | Osteopenia | On day following the initial monthly dose, I experienced severe back pain. I attributed it to sleeping in a bad position. I had never experienced muscle spasms (mid-thoracic) where I could barely stand or function. Following high-dose antiinflammatories, the back pain is better. Now I'm experiencing leg cramping and myalgias limiting normal exericise. The flu-like malaise, profound fatigue and lack of energy led me to look at the side effects of this drug. At this point, I see no reason to take the medication next month. I'm eager for my system to clear of the drug so that I might resume normal life. Additionally, my normal cheery personality is blunted significantly. | Our doctors do not know enough about the horrible side effects of this medication. I would rather live with weak bones rather than alter my active lifestyle. Do not take this medication. | F | 53 | 17 days | 8/27/2007 |