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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ACTONEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | osteoporosis | Tingling..numb hands, left jaw pain & just recently mammogram came back abnormal. Right breast shows mass..biopsy recommended. Called FDA they tell me possible side effect is esophagul cancer..so probability possible. | Any symptom your experiencing stop taking immediately. I have lupus and the tingling feeling I attributed to that. | F | 61 | 1 years 30 | 1/27/2015 | 2 | Osteoporosis | Flu-like symptons - face flush, headache, body ache. In middle of night (approx. 18 hrs after dosage at 7:30 AM) woke up with horrible pain in descending colon and feeling as if I could vomit. By mid-afternoon the day after initial dose was feeling better and by next day felt back to normal. | After reading comments of similar symptoms (at this site), I notified my doctor of what I had experienced. He told me I had had a reaction and to discontinue. But because I had read a comment another woman had written about (Boniva?) who had similar symptoms but after taking her 2nd dose the symptoms went away, I decided to try my 2nd dose a month later. After taking the 2nd and 3rd dosages of Actonel, I suffer only minor headache beginning within 9 hrs of dosage and wake up the next morning with aching in my sinus area and lower neck, also minor nausea. Will take 3 more monthly dosages and then consult with my physician. If next bone density test does not show some improvement in my osteoporosis, I will discontinue Actonel. Perhaps, as another woman wrote, 35 mg once per week would have less side effects. | F | 67 | 3 months 150 mg 1X M | 1/19/2015 | 1 | osteoporosis | 12 hours after first dose, experienced total body aches and pain, fever, stiff neck and migraine | never again! | F | 65 | 1 days 150mg 1X M | 1/7/2015 | 1 | Osteopenia | I started to suffer joint and muscle pain mainly in my right foot, right hand and wrist and upper right arm. Also some lower back pain. | F | 56 | 9 months 35mg 1X W | 12/29/2014 | 2 | Paget's disease of L-3 spine disc. | Failed disc fusion of L2-L4 may be due to over use per my neurosurgeon. Continuous leg, lumbar and joint pain. Worsening indigestion requiring use of Chlord/Clidi. Increased anxiety. Most recently increased joint pain in both arms. | Since I was taking drug for Paget's disease I cannot confirm that it helped any. It was a nuisance to take because you have to take first thing in morning with 8 ounces of water and remain upright for half hour after taking and could not eat during that half hour. I was shocked to learn the FDA findings and that my PCP didn't inform me until Oct. 2013. I had been on Actonel since Nov. 2000 when I was diagnosed with Paget's. After two lumbar fusions during 2012 I still suffer with severe pain and needing 10mg Oxycodone 4X day and Morphine Sulphate 30mg 3X day. I see pain management doctor every 4 weeks to re-evaluate and renew medications. | M | 61 | 35 1X day | 12/23/2014 Patient History | 1 | Osteoperosis | I had taken 35 mg once a week for several years and experienced no problem. However I switched to 150 mg once a month after taking a "vacation" from weekly dosage. The 150 mg is horrible! Both times I experienced flu like symptoms...had chills, Achiness and even temperature. This came on about 20 hours after taking dosage. I think the 150 mg is just too potent and should not be taken. I will attempt and go back to the weekly 35 mg and see if I still can tolerate. | F | 64 | 2 months 150 mg 1X M | 12/14/2014 | 1 | Osteopenia | I HAVE NOT TAKEN ACTONEL SINCE MARCH OF 2005. I AM STILL EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS TO THIS DAY THAT ARE RELATED TO THAT DRUG. IT HAS RUINED MY LIFE. IF YOU READ THE PRODUCT INSERT YOU WILL FIND A VERY CAREFULLY WRITTEN STATISTIC THAT REVEALS THAT THE MANUFACTURER KNOWS THAT ABOUT 2% OF PATIENTS WHO TAKE ACTONEL WILL DEVELOP ALL OF THE SYMPTOMS YOU SEE EXPRESSED IN THIS SITE. IT IS POISON. | I STILL CANNOT IMAGINE WHY THERE HASN'T BEEN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE MANUFACTURER AND WHY IT IS STILL BEING MARKETED IS ANBODIES GUESS. | F | 56 | 2 years 1X day | 11/16/2014 | 1 | Osetoporosis | I had been on Actonel for about four years but due to painful tongue and mouth, throat and blisters on inside of mouth my doctor and I decided that I should come off the drug to try and find out what was causing my problem. I saw two ENTs, one dismissed me completely and the other diagnosed me with Burning Mouth Syndrome and told me that I had to live with it. Go home and get the info from the internet. Prior to seeing these two Specialists, I had tried all kinds of meds to relieve my painful mouth and throat but nothing worked. I came off the drug and after 2 years, I was starting to feel that my mouth was only beginning to feel normal again. Finally, after years of not being able to taste my food and staying away from many foods, I was starting to get back some normalcy in my life. Then I had a Bone Density done and I was found to be at very high risk to break a bone, so my doctor suggested I go back on this drug again. I did not know about this forum, nor did I know with cert | This drug is very, very dangerous and needs to be taken off the market. | F | 62 | 3 weeks 1X W | 11/6/2014 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Took this killer drug 1 time. Many and all the side effects as previous comments reported. God have mercy on all of us. I literally felt I was dying. At two o'clock in the morning I prayed to God to help me, and if he couldn't then let me die. The doctors and drug companies should be forced to take this poison. It's two months hence. Feeling better, but it ripped my stomach apart. Doctors and more quacks. Then I feel two weeks ago and fractured my elbow. As others commented wish I saw this site before. I'm going to take my chances as others with calcium. May you all be well and overcome these horrific side effects. God bless all of you. 😊 | F | 68 | 1 days | 10/25/2014 | 1 | weak bone density | Got a chills, high fever...chest pain, flu like stomach pain,loss of appetite, feels like I'm dying. | should be off the market. | F | 60 | 2 weeks 35 mg 1X W | 10/16/2014 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Severe aching muscles and joints, flu like symptoms,severe diarrhea which lasted 2-3 days, rash on my arm and pain in groin area. First month I took Actonel my chest hurt just to touch and breathe plus all the other symptoms Second month I experienced the same symptoms plus the severe diarrhea. Then all the symptoms are experienced at once. I felt like I had taken the medication to clean your colon for a colonoscopy plus the flu symptoms. | This drug is a killer...If I were a doctor, I would never recommend Actonel to any of my patients. I wish I had done my research before taking this medication, but I trusted my doctor. I will not take this or any drug containing oral bisphonates ever again. If I had a job, I would have been out of commission for a week each month. I wonder if any of the doctors prescribing this drug would take it themselves; probably not. | F | 60 | 2 months 150 MG 1X M | 10/11/2014 | 1 | Low bone scan results | Was good at first A couple years ago diagnosed with RA/ lupus/unspecified inflammatory polyarthropathy, whatever that is. Now thinking it is more a side effect of the Actonel Thinking i am calling my pcp this morning and if no results call my rheumatologist I hope to get off the Actonel & Plaquenel i take for the RA | F | 62 | 4 years 35 mg | 9/11/2014 | 1 | Borderline osteopenia | I was started on Fosamax when it first came on the market. It irritated my stomach so my gyn dr. Switched me to Actonel when it became available. After 14yrs. both my femurs broke spontaneously, 6 mo. apart, requiring insertion of intramedullary rods. I had no idea that this was a result of Actonel until the 2nd. Surgeon stated that the femurs are the strongest bones in your body and do not fracture spontaneously, mid-shaft, both at a 45 degree angle and stated that this was definitely caused by the Actonel. The bisphosphates prevent your bones from producing natural healing elements and results in stress fractures in your bones which do not show up on x-rays. I have also suffered a fractured pelvis and sternum in the past 5 years. | This medication has made me completely disabled with a great deal of residual pain and loss of ability to perform even simple things. This medication is horrible and the amount of damage it is causing should be more than sufficient to have it taken off the market. My own primary physician refuses to prescribe any bis phosphates. Please don't take it! | F | 75 | 14 years 150 mg. 1X M | 9/4/2014 | 1 | osteoporosis | Lost most of bone in my upper and lower jaw.very painful for 4 years.never recommend this.and who pays for surgery to fix my jaw? Makers of zctonel will or should | F | 55 | 1 days | 7/19/2014 | 1 | Osteoporosis?Osteospina | I took Actonel for the first time on Sunday, and the last!! I developed a migraine during the first day and by night time I had severe back pain that shut through the front of my chest/heart. I could only take short breaths because every time I breath deeply I would feel a stabbing pain in my heart/chest. I also felt pain in my joints on my left arm. During the night I couldn't even turn over without moaning each time. I felt pain in the spinal cord. By the next morning I felt like my whole body was aching. I also felt warm and had chills. It's the third day and I developed a rash around my neck. I also have been bedridden for the last two days on and off. I ache every time I move. I also am having upper abdominal pain since yesterday evening. | I will never take this medication again and hope no one ever takes it either. I don't want anyone to experience the same symptoms. I wish I would have done more research on this medicine before taking this med. | F | 49 | 1 times 35 mg 1X W | 6/3/2014 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Within an hour of taking the medication I started to have dizziness which lasted about 3-4 hours followed by nausea, significant chest pain and vomiting. I initally thought that I was having a heart attack but saw that several other people also reported chest pain and had it medically checked out to find that it was not an attack. The next day the nausea continued and the joint and muscle aches at their peak, not to mention the chest pain felt like a small elephant was sitting on top of me. Breathing was difficult to say the least. It has been 72 hours since I took my first...and need I say...last pill of this poison. My chest pain is as bad now as it was the first day but thank goodness the nausea and vomiting have subsided. I was never warned that I would have any reaction....much less one to this degree. I will never take another dose of this drug or any kind of it's class. Life is too short to take something that can do this much damage with just one dose. I can only imagine what w | F | 1 days 150 1X M | 6/2/2014 | 1 | bone fractures | Took actonel for five months and now I have acute myleoid leukemia. This is a killer drug and should be off of the market. | M | 59 | 5 months 150 MG 1X M | 4/24/2014 | 1 | Osteoporosis | I took my first dose of Actonel 2 days ago. Yesterday I had minor joint pain. Today I feel like I have been run over by a truck. Severe joint and muscle pain, flu like symptoms, headache and wasted my day bedbound. Panadeine Forte every 4 hours has had very little effect except to make me sleepy. I will Not be taking another dose of this medication and am shocked that with all of these complaints, they are still allowed to sell it! | Think twice before taking this medication. My bone density score was very low particularly for my age so I thought taking Actonel would be a wise decision to avoid complications in later life. But the side effects I have are too much to continue taking it. | F | 47 | 2 days 35mg 1X W | 4/19/2014 | 1 | osteoporosis | Been on it for 18 months. I have preexisting fibromyalgia. All was fine til I went off. Now I have such bad pain most of the time. Fingers, knees, feet, and especially thighs and calfs. Just had hip and knee xrays so wish me luck. Went to gp who talked me into going back on it. Now Ive read all your comments jees Im really put off. Ive never had this pain b4 so its not fibromyalgia. Im going off it for sure. Thanks to all you dear people who have warned us. | F | 65 | 1 years 35 | 4/8/2014 | 1 | Doctor Prescribed after Bone Densit | MORE BAD NEWS - SORRY! I reported back in 2009 about being hospitilized after suffering an "ACUTE ATTACK of RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS"-a side effect of Actonel. Last week I had a Consultation with a Peridontal Surgeon and was told that the adverse effects of Bisphosphonates {which is the ingredient in Actonel that causes the problems}tend to stay in our bodies "for LIFE" and should always be reported before having any Dental or Orthopedic Proceedures!Is there NO ESCAPE from this Poison? And WHY is it still being made and Prescribed??????????? | F | 65 | 9 weeks 30 mg 1X W | 3/18/2014 |