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 | osteopenia | I take no other medications so know that Fosamax is the problem. I felt I was doing okay with this drug, but at precisely 5 months I am having pain in my upper legs and hips.......was at the store yesterday and was having trouble walking, one hip wasn't working correctly. I have an athletic background......this type of pain is new to me. And, of course, I don't know if the drug was doing any good for my bones. | No more bone drugs.......I will have to rely on calcium, vitamins and exercise. | F | 71 | 5 months 1xweek | 8/15/2019 | 4 | Osteoporosis | I experienced no side effects. | I took this with no problem until it ceased to work. | F | 65 | 4 years 1X W | 6/28/2019 | 1 | Oesteoporosis | Took this from 30 years of age to 39. I felt like i was 80. Pain in all bones of my body. Took 10 years to get rid of pain. Feel better now than I felt in my 30s. Tell everyone i know never to take this drug. Why is it still on the market? | F | 56 | 10 years | 6/26/2019 | 1 | osteopenia | Severe stomach pains, nausea and vomiting for several hours after I went to bed at night. | I took my first dose of Fosamax at 11:00 AM and felt OK. I went to bed after midnight and by 1:30 AM began having stomach pains. Soon I became extremely nauseated and began vomiting. I didn't feel any relief until I emptied the entire contents of my stomach. The ordeal lasted approximately 2 1/2 hours. I was exhausted the following day. My doctor thought it was unlikely that the cause was Fosamax. I can't think of any other cause. | F | 70 | 1 days 70 mg 1X W | 6/25/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Reflux. Never had reflux in my life. It caused so much pain I almost cried. Took a month of Prilosec and Pepcid to calm the symptoms. It is still occasionally bothering my stomach. | F | 70 | 6 months 70mg | 6/19/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis. | I had what are called side effects: all over, traveling extreme bone pain that went away at 4 weeks. Since the first 5 minutes after taking the first pill, my severe reaction started. My sinuses were affected and over three weeks swelled, caused major swelling on scalp near sinuses. I had to sleep if I didn’t need to be up for work. I was losing my ability to function. Couldn’t get dressed standing up, legs would get weak from walking. Afraid to drive. Took super strength Tylenol all day everyday just to be able to be up and work. Doctor felt these were temporary side affects that would go away. Week 6 my face and eyes swelled eyeballs swelled cheeks swelled. Stopped then. | Before I took the drug while I was actually 64 I always felt 54. From day 1 of fosamax I felt 85 or 95. | F | 64 | 45 days 70 mg week | 6/18/2019 | 2 | Osteoporosis | I took my first once-a-week dosage on a Friday morning. I started feeling a little achy and tired at dinner. Within a couple of hours, I was huddled on the couch with severe aches and chills. On-call doctor said I could take 400mg of ibuprofen. By the next morning I felt fine but my PCP has since advised I not take the 2nd dose and is referring me to an endocrinologist. | F | 51 | 1 days 70 | 6/11/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Diarrhea...terrible pains in abdomen and lower back Joint pain | Terrible side effects..will have to try something else | F | 55 | 1 days 30 | 6/2/2019 | 1 | Low Thinning of the bones | Started with Diarrhea first night that lasted all night with no sleep then next day headache like my head was in a vice and pain in right hip and thigh which not had before and on third day could barely walk and felt dizzy and high blood pressure. | I will be trying alternatives to help. | F | 51 | 1 weeks 70MG | 5/28/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis | I will never ever take this drug again. Naseau and heartburn and vomiting. Mild headache. I am sorry I tried this. | F | 60 | 1 days 60. | 3/31/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Headaches, heart burn, heaviness in jaw. Legs aching. | Unbelievable that this poison is legal and the medical community don't even blink in prescribing this. | F | 60 | 3 weeks 70 mg | 1/1/2019 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Extreme swelling in hands, pain everywhere, so sick I couldn’t move in bed, barely able to get out of bed in morning | Absolutely a terrible medicine. Do not be intimidated by doctors into taking this debilitating drug. | F | 73 | 2 weeks 70 1X W | 11/26/2018 | 1 | Osteopenia | Muscle pain is extreme! Could not walk, move... Pain kept me from being able to sleep. Diarrhea, stomach issues too. Certainly not side effects that someone who also has celiac disease, fibromyalgia & osteoarthritis needs. WILL NOT TAKE AGAIN. | Do not take. Seriously, are there no better options?? | F | 56 | 1 days | 10/27/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | I took 70 mg. once a week for approximately 3 months. Side affects started after 2 months. Not realizing it could be the Fosamax I kept taking it for another 3 weeks and quit taking it today after I researched the side affects and read the reviews on "Ask A Patient". I first experienced horrible jaw pain that comes and goes and is now more prominent in both jaws. I'm having nasty flu like symptoms (aching muscles, nausea, tired, headaches). Luckly, at my age I don't take any prescription medication. The only change I've made is the Fosamax; horrible stuff. I'm ordering the book ""Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox"". A patient I met at NJH in Denver overheard my conversation about me starting Fosamax. He introduced himself and told me his horror story with Fosamax and to get the book and try Vitamin K2 (for bones) with a combination of 100mg. calcium and 1000 iu's of fish oil. What the heck do I have to loose, it's not poison like Fosamax and the gentleman I met swears K2 is helping him. | I should have researched and read the Fosamax reviews and side affects before I started taking this nasty drug. Fosamax is a miserable drug. | F | 69 | 3 months 70mg (wk) | 10/20/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Swollen painful joints in hands and feet. Tendonitis. In hands and tire. Stiff Joints all over. I’ve been off 9 months and the problem is better but not gone. | F | 62 | 4 months 30 | 10/1/2018 | 1 | Ward off osteoporosis | Severe bilateral hip joint pain | F | 66 | 12 weeks 1X W | 8/2/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Head hurts body dizzy legs totally give out stomach ache no energy hurts to walk and feelings like I have the flu | F | 66 | 0 weeks 70 | 7/9/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | 1st day taking this Fosamax. Followed instructions to sit on the chair for 42 minutes. After breakfast I felt dizzy, back of neck and lower back pain hurting badly, muscle pain, abdominal pain, then vomitted for 45 minutes and nothing to vomit anymore except acid. Never had this problem taking any meds. Will stop taking this med and just risk with osteoporosis. Had bone scan and was told in 10 years I will have osteoporosis. Will risk and try anything just by not taking this med. | F | 61 | 1 days 70 mg tab 1X W | 7/8/2018 | 1 | osteoporosis | Terrible drug - took my third pill and the next morning my neck and back were wrenched. Can't move neck up and down or sideways. Shoulders have extreme pain - Tylenol seems to help a little bit - can't take Tylenol all the time have some allergies to it. 5th day of pain so far. Please Lord take away the pain. Threw away the rest of the pills. Pill should be banned. | Manufacturers didn't test the drug correctly. How can this pill be marketed and sold to people with such terrible side effects? They are trying to do us more harm than good. Before I took the pill I was able to move my neck and my shoulder blades didn't hurt. When will this go away? This was my third pill. When will this leave my system? And July 4th is right around the corner. What to do? | F | 70 | 3 days 1X W | 6/30/2018 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Joint and hip pain and nausea after I get up in the morning causing me to vomit almost every day. | F | 63 | 6 months 70mg week | 6/17/2018 |