FOSAMAX Reviews (ALENDRONATE SODIUM)Average Rating: 1.4 (1230 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FOSAMAX with similar:
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| 1 | low bone density test | severe muscle and joint pain, headache | After 3-1/2 months taking once-a-week Generic Fosamax, I like many others, got up with a pain in my neck and thought I was sleeping wrong. Within a few days, I could not lift dishes into the cupboard as my upper arm muscles were so sore. Then it hit my legs, it hurt to walk, hurt to turn over in bed. I stopped taking the generic Fosamax and called my Dr. I took numerous lab tests for any muscle/inflammation/disease. All were normal. He was puzzled and had not had a patient with this problem. I don't take any other drugs, just a multi-vitamin, calcium/D and Omega 3 fish oil. He gave me Darvocet for the pain, which made me sick. Just as well, the FDA has taken it off the market! Extra strength Bayer aspirin helps a little. After 9 months, there's been a little improvement but I'm far from normal. I think this is a horrible family of drugs and our problems are not made public enough. I've reported by situation to the FAD/Medwatch, for whatever good it will do. I suggest you all do the same. Here is the voluntary web site: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm If enough of us make them aware what it does to us, maybe they'll take action. I hope so. I'll never take it again. | F | 73 | 3 months 70 1X W | 12/21/2010 | 1 | DO NOT TAKE. POISON. | F | 56 | 0 days 0 1X O | 12/14/2010 | 2 | Osteoprosis | Dizziness, Depression, Knee Pain, Botto of Spine pain, Extreme Tiredness | Was taking generic | F | 51 | 6 months 1X W | 12/13/2010 | 1 | diagnosed spinal fractures | Was prescribed this because of spinal fractures, even tho' scans did not show osteoporosis. From the start until now have experienced a feeling of "unwellness". I have been continually fatigued, appetite has been well down and have experienced night sweats. I have a chronic lung disease (Bronchiectasis) and this has worsened since being on this drug. I have had 5 courses of anti-biotics since starting. I came off this med. for 4 weeks and felt marginally better. My GP told me it was not the Foxamax and should try again. Have done so, and all the above symptoms are again present. It's too much of a co-incidence for it not to be Fosamax. | I am going off this med. in spite of what the GP says. I feel so relieved to have found this website. I thankfully have not had some of the other side effects, and feel so sorry for those people who have. What also amazes me is the attitudes of so many GP's - they treat their patients as morons. | M | 67 | 4 months 30mg 1X W | 11/30/2010 | 1 | Low bone density in spine | A bone density scan after a hip fracture (due to a very bad fall) showed reduction in density in spine only so Fosamax was prescribed. After being on it for about about six years, I was diagnosed as having a complete heart block with a very slow erratic heart rate. On subsequently reading adverse reports re Fosamax and the heart, I had a bone density test, which showed an improvement so decided to stop taking the drug - a friend who had stopped taking it two years ago because of "dead jaw" experienced no subsequent deterioration in bone density. I continued to take a natural bone density supplement and after only 4 years noticed that my pulse rate was faster and steadier. I had a heart monitor check check for a week about four months later which showed that my heart was back to normal. | I will never consider taking it again | F | 71 | 1X W | 11/24/2010 | 5 | ostopenia and very low Vitamin D | No side effects. | I have been taking this exactly as prescribed and do not deviate. It has not bothered me at all. I also take a multivitamin and calcium with D3. My vitamin D levels have now increased to normal but I'm not due for a Dexascan until 2 years have passed. | F | 51 | 6 months 70 mg 1X W | 11/23/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Within 24-48 of first dosage I started experiencing gnawing in my stomach relieved by food-peptic ulcer like symptoms for the past 3 days now. And this is after only one dosage of the generic Fosamax drug. Now taking anti-acids to help relieve symptoms. I wonder how long this will last or do I need to see doctor for testing. I was warned about jaw pain, muscle aches and abdominal pain but after doing research of drug, I found that abdominal pain is the number one reason why people stop taking the drug. I will not continue with this medication. | I have been taking calcium with Vitamin D, fish oil and doing weight bearing exercise for years. I even walk dogs for a living so it came as a surprise to me when I had a bone density test two-three years ago and discovered that I had osteopenia. Thought I would try Fosamax to increase bone density. Now I just hope it did not cause me to develop a peptic ulcer. | F | 61 | 1 days 70mg 1X W | 11/19/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Vision refraction kept changing and I went through 4 changes in two years. Problems quit when I finally refused to take any more fosamax. | It has been 10 years since I last took fosamax. In researching I found that it may have an 80 year half life! I was told today by a dentist that I have more bone loss than I should for my age. My jaws have been feeling tense like tension for over a year now. | F | 66 | 2 years unsure 1X day | 11/18/2010 | 1 | early stages of osteoporosis | After the 2nd pill (one per week) my left knee swelled three times its normal size. Had to see a specialist who drained 2.5 vials of fluid out of it. I also experienced painful swelling of my pink finger. Done with Fosamax! Will never take again! | I took the generic version. | F | 57 | 2 weeks 1X W | 11/17/2010 | 5 | osteopenia | None, except my bone scans show improvement every year. | I take the Alendronate Sodium with eight 8 ounces of water every Monday. I have never had any adverse side effects. Last year I had to have a wisdom tooth pulled which required a blood test to determine my calcium count. It was normal. Any aches and pains I have I consider them normal signs of aging! | F | 67 | 8 years 70 1X W | 11/9/2010 | 1 | poor bone density | Severe hip and arm pain. Difficulty walking. The pain would wake me up at night. Diarrhea. Pain in my fingers and hand. | F | 51 | 1 months 70 1X day | 10/22/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | I took the medicine exactly as prescribed. No problem for years except for stiff joints occasionally (was tested for RA and others). The joint problems went away and just recently I have been diagnosed with GERD and after an upper endoscopy I have stomach ulcers, stomach polyp, esophageal rings, weak lower esophageal sphincter which causes sore throat, irritated esophagus, ear ache that will not go away! Please post if you have a solution to this! I have been on a strict diet and lost 12 pounds so far ( Now weigh 109), but nothing helps!!! | I would not recommend taking this medicine. I trusted my doctors but they do not take time to read posts like this. | F | 48 | 7 years 70 1X W | 10/19/2010 | 1 | increase bone density | The drug ruined in hips. | If you're taking the drug,stop immediately. | F | 60 | 5 years 60MG 1X W | 10/15/2010 | 1 | Avascular Necrosis | The first evening after taking the generic version of Fosamax, Alendronate Sodium, I began to have pain in my neck and shoulders. After a poor nights sleep I thought I had just slept wrong and had a "stiff neck" a paracetamol later the pain in my neck subsided and then I began to suffer pain in my rib cage. My chest felt crushed as if I had done a belly flop onto concrete. The pain was especially severe in my sternum. The pain spread to my arms and lower back. I went to the pharmacy to ask if it was normal, the pharmacist said that "flu like" symptoms and musculo-skeletal pains were common. Besides the pain in my bones and muscles I also have cramping in my bowels. Despite the little comfort knowing that something else wasn't really wrong with me, I felt horrified that this drug caused so much pain after a single dose. I toyed with the idea that I would take my next scheduled dose, but after a sleepless night where even prescribed opiates didn't dull the pain and a | M | 30 | 1 times 70 1X W | 10/6/2010 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Swollen right ankle and sore knees | I was diagnosed with osteoporosis after suffering two stress fractures in my feet. I am 55. I was prescribed a generic form of Fosamax and after about 4 weeks, my right ankle became inflamed and swollen, almost like a sprain but I hadn't sprained my ankle. The pain was severe and kept me awake at night. I went to the doctor and he was surprised by this reaction because apparently the side-effect most often seen is a problem in the jaw. He told me to stop taking for a couple of weeks. The week after I resumed, the severe pain in my ankle returned. Also, my knees don't seem to bend and flex in a normal manner and I don't feel like I have good balance and thus afraid of falling. After reading the comments on the website I will discontinue the use of this drug. I have always consumed dairy products and have taken One-a-Day with calcium for several years but nobody told me I should be taking more than that! Now I am taking 1500 mg. of calcium per day and 5000 units of Vit. D. Once my feet and leg problems resolve, I'll be in the gym too. | F | 55 | 1 months 1X W | 10/6/2010 | 1 | alendronic Acid generic of Fosomax | The worst drug ever experienced.I was so ill and gradually got worse up to the 6th week as if it was topping up it kicks in after about 24 hrs, bad bone pain, pain in hands and feet and ribs, muscle weakness by the sixth week could not get up from squatting position, a real tiredness just layed on the bed most of the time.Dry hair dry skin and felt and looked 90 as others have said.thats only short term side effects....what does it do long term? taken weeks to get out of my system and still not myself.I will take my chances with vits, calcium and excercise. | I have read as much as I can about this drug and most people say that have stayed on it that they have still lost density!!!! With the long term side effects why compromise the rest of your body...should be banned.All it does it turn old bone brittle and gives you no quality of life while on it.iread all these on here and they could have been me speaking as some of the side effects I didnt put down to that, like my eyes etc......poison!!! | F | 62 | 6 weeks 70mg 1X W | 10/1/2010 | 1 | osteoporosis | Within 3 hours, started getting rash on neck, pain in joints, shoulders, back of legs etc; had the worse night sweats ever; migraine headaches would not go away even with usual meds; during one severe night sweat episode, felt horrible crushing chest and arm pain, felt like the described symptoms of a heart attack, almost went to the ER but pain on right side; extreme fatigue, probably from not being able to sleep and from all the excess joint pain. Took me a week after just one pill to get rid of most of the symptoms, but night sweats continued for 3 months and gradually became less frequent. | The symptoms started so soon after taking it the first time, I knew it was the Fosamax. I refuse to take it and other drugs in its family - I told my doctor I thought I was dying. He still is pressuring me to take something - now it's Evista. I don't think so. | F | 62 | 1 days 70 mg 1X W | 9/19/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Severe right hip pain which radiates to the thigh. Xray of the joint shows a normal result. Pain causes me to limp. Pain keeps me up at night. | Why are we being perscribed this medicine to improve our bones when there are other means to do this? | F | 57 | 2 years 70 1X W | 9/15/2010 | 1 | osteoperosis | my 4th metatarsal snapped while I was walking, and after 12 weeks in a cast it still is not healing. I finally had an Endocrinologist suggest that I stop taking Fosamax, so I looked it up on the internet and was floored about all the side effects! My GP just stuck me on it and I just took it without question....well, I will be much more aware of what medications I take from now on. | My Father died of Esophageal Cancer, and had been on Fosamax for years. I wonder now if it had caused his early death. He stopped taking it when he was having difficulty swallowing. He fought the cancer bravely for 1 1/2 years before his death. | M | 53 | 16 months 70mg 1X W | 9/11/2010 | 5 | diagnosed with osteoporosis | no side effects | Within 2 years of taking Fosamax, I was upgraded to osteopenia in my hip. Within 3 years of taking Fosamax, I was upgraded to osteopenia in both my hip and spine. For the last year, I have been taking the generic for Fosamax with no apparent difference. I also have taken 1000-1200 mg of calcium citrate for 10 years. | F | 56 | 6 years 1X W | 9/10/2010 |