ACTONEL Reviews (RISEDRONATE SODIUM)Average Rating: 1.4 (1412 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ACTONEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ACTONEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Bone mass loss | 35mg - wiped me out > severe dizziness, luck of energy, heart palpitations, chest pain, dry mouth; I got scared I am going to die! Switched to 5mg and used this one since > side effects not so severe, but still present: luck of energy, problem sleeping, cloudy thinking; joint, hip, ankle pain; sinus problems, heaviness in the chest. | Will get rid of it and try natural solutions. Just wondering if this drug could cause leukemia in my friend. It is scary to be fragile in the older age, but this is not working. | F | 49 | 8 months | 4/2/2006 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Severe reflux that came on rapidly. Still suffering from it three months after ceasing the medication. | F | 61 | 9 months | 3/29/2006 | 2 | osteoporosis | Heart palpitations would wake me in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. | Spoke to doctor about heart problem and was on Holtor monitor for 24 hrs. Irregularity was associated with something else. After reading article re: "Is your medicine making you sick" stopped taking actonel, no more nightly palpitations. | F | 62 | 4 months | 3/26/2006 | 5 | Osteoporsis | None but follow directions re laying down/eating | Taken for 1 yr. have not had bone test since. Runs in family so am glad there's a medicine to help me | F | 70 | 1 years | 3/23/2006 | 2 | osteopenia | Each time I took it, everything ached for the day and then cleared up. As months passed, everything hurt, I felt tired and hadn't the energy to do anything other than lie on the couch. After almost a year and a half of my feeling worse each subsequent week, I realized that I was being poisoned by something. My sister suggested that Actonel might be the culprit. I thought so, too, so I quit taking it: cold turkey. | After I quit taking it, I DIDN'T feel worse the following week or the week after that. Gradually, I've regained strength and energy. I'll take my chances on a broken bone--I exercise a lot. | F | 63 | 17 months | 3/23/2006 | 1 | Osteoporosis | One side of head pain the night of taking the weekly dose. Also I experienced chest pain and pain through my shoulder blades. I am 73 years old and have been taking Actonel for 6 years. I didn't have any of the above symptoms until a few months ago.I wouldn't recommend the drug at all due to the bad effects from long term use. It is a very potent and scary drug to take. | F | 73 | 6 years | 3/12/2006 | 1 | osteoperosis | Thought I was having a heart attack, esp as both my mother and brother suffer from conjestive heart failure. Thought it could be stress as my mother just died and I was taking care of her affairs. Couldn't breathe. My chest muscles ached the next few days. | Good thing I found this site. I am not into taking drugs as a cure all and it took me a couple of days after reading the warnings on the label to add it all together as this was not something I had experienced before. Take Evista and Caltrate as well. If one is in one's fifties and having these side effects I would not recommend. | F | 54 | 1 months | 3/10/2006 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Discomfort due to bloating & reflux. Lethargy. Dry skin. Dry mouth | After taking actonel for 2 years I gave up taking it for 2 years. 3 months ago my doctor persuaded me to take it again. Bloating, fatigue, unpleasant taste in my mouth, reflux have made me decide to cease again. | F | 81 | | 3/10/2006 | 1 | osteoporosis, loss of bone mass | Took first pill on Saturday morning. By that evening had severe headache and neck pain at the base of my skull, running from ear to ear. By Sunday morning I could hardly move my neck. Sunday night I could not sleep because of pressure of the pillow on my neck. Monday morning (today) have severe pain in the neck and back of my head if I move my neck in any direction. I can't turn my head to look for traffic when I drive. I am very healthy. I walk , jog, garden, clean house, and work fulltime in an office at the age of 67. I am never sick, blood pressure is great. I only went to the doctor for a routine annual check up. She insisted on the bone density test and now insists on the medication to reverse bone loss. So, I went in feeling great, and now the medicine is making me sick. To the lady who says at 56 she is continuing her HRT, I would like to beg her to consider getting off estrogen -- it is very dangerous and now known to accelerate if not actually cause breast cancer. Nu | I have taken my first and last dose of Actonel. | F | 67 | 1 days | 3/6/2006 | 1 | osto | severe chest pain, arm pain, bloating, racing heart, hard beating of the heart and acid reflux.This drug is bad, bad, bad news. I'm just going to exercise, take calcium and pray for the best. | I wonder....with the chest pain, what exactly did this stuff do to me? How long has this drug been tested and what was the follow up of those that could not continue to take it? I really would like to know more...especially, if any damage was done permanently. | F | 52 | 2 months | 3/5/2006 | 1 | osteoperosis/compression fractue | Neck pain, shoulder pain with upper arms and extreme muscle pain and stiffness.Tired all the time, am so thankful for this web site and the other comments--I took my last pill Sun. of this week so it's too soon to tell--I was blaming all of this on lifting our grandaughter and another little one that I watch. Then I started thinking I've been on Actonel since Nov. and felt like I have the flu and achy all over most of the time. I am 61 and very active and this is really getting me down. I am so very appreciative of all of those who responded to this web site--I feel better just knowing that this drug is probably the cause of me feeling so lousy. It scares me to think what it's doing to people, I'd rather have the pain from the fracture than feel like this--thank you. Has anyone definitely felt better since getting off of this drug Actonel--please email me, how long does it take to feel better after you stop the lx a week dose? Also my arms or sore and I really have trouble sleeping, | F | 61 | 4 months | 3/1/2006 | 2 | severe osteopenia | nausea, burning, extreme tireness, weird vision stuff....will this improve??? | took first dose today (2/25/06) Experienced nausea right after taking then developed GI burning sensation which lasted all day long. The biggest problem is extreme tiredness. Slept for 3 hours in this afternoon. Couldn't keep my eyes open or wake up. This was not a nap! Waking intermittently but could not make myself get up...when I got up, I knew something was amiss ..that's when I looked up this site...it's 8:00pm and I'm so tired again...I am in graduate studies...this will not work. | F | 48 | 1 times | 2/25/2006 | 2 | to prevent bone loss | Gastric reflux and chest pains developed about two days after taking actonel. | I know that this is helping some people. My history of reactions to drugs is that I often develop allergies. | F | 71 | 2 years | 2/22/2006 | 1 | Osteopenia | I had some pain in my teeth, but no other major symptoms. However, after reading several articles from reputable websites about the potential for osteonecrosis of the jaw, I discontinued taking it; and will try calcium, Vitamin D and weight-bearing exercise, along with a very low dose HRT. I am concerned that the long-term effects of this drug are not known. If we start taking this in our 50's; and take it for 30 years, what will this do to our bones? No one knows. | Several articles I have read indicate that 50 percent of the female population over age 50 has "osteopenia." It is a relatively new diagnosis (only around for 20 years or so). Prior to that, there was no such thing. I believe that the drug companies are making 50 percent of the population believe they have a "disease", so they (or their doctors) panic and buy these drugs. It's great for their profits if half the post-menopausal women in the world buy their drug. I'm concerned about potential jaw problems; and also about whether the drug could ultimately make one's bones more brittle and harder to heal if there is a break. | M | 54 | 1 years | 2/22/2006 | 1 | OSTEOPENIA | Extreme shoulder pain, to the point it hurts to breath. Gas, bloating, tired, don't sleep well at all, could be related to the shoulder | I would not recommend, worried about long term effects. I am also worried about the Osteopenia getting worse. I was uncertain if the way I was feeling was just me or the actonel until I read feedback from others. | F | 50 | 3 months | 2/20/2006 | 2 | Osteoperosis | I have been experiencing irregular heartbeat since I started taking Actonel. I'm a runner (usually low mileage twice a week) and had previously been taking a low dose of Toprol (50Mg per day)to control an irregualar heartbeat. Since taking Actonel for osteoperosie, I've had to increase Toprol to at least 100 per day . . . and even that doesn't always work. I'm considering discontinuing the Actonel. | I know there is at least one other individual who experienced this same side effect. Are there others who have experienced irregular heartbeat when taking Actonel? | M | 70 | 3 months | 2/16/2006 | 1 | Osteopenia | Severe bone and muscle pain 3 days after the first once-a-week dose. Felt so horrible I went to bed and missed 2 days of work. After 3 months got up the courage to try fosomax (per my doc)--4 days post, my sternum burns and my stomache aches. | My doc said to try these drugs and see "if I could stand the side effects" so at least he didn't think I was nuts when I told him about them... | F | 52 | 1 days | 2/15/2006 | 3 | osteoporis | cloudy urine | would like to know if cloudy urine is a side effect of taking actonel, and if so, is there a problem? | M | 64 | 1 days | 2/10/2006 | 2 | osteroporosis | Follow up to previous posting. I went off Actonel beacuse of the awful side effects and increased calcium to 1500 mg. That was a year ago and my bone density has increased and I no longer have osteroporosis. | Note to Nancy who emailed me. I emailed you back but it said your blocker was on. | M | 52 | 2 months | 2/8/2006 | 1 | Mild osteopenia | I believe that, after one year on Actonel, I have had some growth of the bone above my gum lines. I didn't notice it until I saw a video of myself; and wondered how, suddenly, at age 53, I had gotten an overbite! So I felt my gums, and found this new bone growth! My dentist didn't think anything of it; but I decided to go off the Actonel; as it made sense to me that any new bone growth could be caused by a drug that promotes bone density. Also, I had been doing a lot of reading about osteonecrosis of the jaw; and it seemed pretty compelling. I was most affected by an article written by an oral surgeon at Long Island Jewish Hospital (Dr. Ruggieri, I think), who encountered 63 recent cases of ONJ (osteonecrosis of the jaw); and learned that every single case involved people who were taking a drug from this family of drugs (the biophosphonates). About 10 percent of those people were taking either fosamax or actonel for osteoporosis. The effects of this condition are devastating. P | I want to make sure this side effect gets reported to the medical and dental experts. I doubt I could spontaneously grow new bone at my age without some drug being the cause. The only other drug I take is Prempro .3. I plan to see if the prempro and calcium supplements can keep my bone density in tact, without the Actonel. I am also concerned about whether the Actonel and Fosamax will eventually make the bones brittle and difficult to heal. I also have a little blurring of my vision. Please write and tell me about all dental-related problems you have had on this drug. If I get enough responses, I will contact the American Dental Association (either by myself or through my dentist). Maybe a class action is in order. | F | 53 | 1 years | 2/8/2006 |