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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BONIVA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Ostersporosis | I took once-monthly Boniva for the first time 10 days ago. Within hours I felt extreme nausea, severe abdominal cramping, fever, chills so bad I was shaking, my teeth and gums hurt, along with horrific headaches. I did not associate any of these symptoms with the Boniva. I thought I had an intestinal virus. I could not eat for days for fear of vomiting. Every bone in my body hurt so bad, it was painful to even lie down. I was dizzy and so miserable and the pain was so relentless. It wasn't until my husband mentioned my taking Boniva, that I looked up the side effects. Low and behold, this was happening to me. I will never take Boniva again, and will warn all my friends to do the same. I am looking into natural healthy alternatives. | Doctors should never prescribe this medication. Take it off the market. | F | 65 | 1 weeks 150MG 1X M | 2/11/2010 | 1 | osteoporosis | severe hip and leg pain weight loss due to nausea nose bleeds loss of mobility twitching | how can i make this stop | F | 54 | 6 months 1X M | 2/11/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Severe chest pain, trouble taking deep breaths, muscle pains, and joint pain. That was the first day within 24 hours of taking one pill. Second day had troubles standing up and sitting down, let alone walking. I was taking double doses of Advil to try and be at least comfortable. Third day was stomach cramping, gas issues. I was afraid to eat because I was not sure if I would keep it down. At night it was unbearable to sleep. I had a hot pad on me just to be comfortable. I would wake up freezing but I was sweating. I will find a natural way to strengthen my bones. DO NOT TAKE | F | 44 | 1 days 150 1X M | 2/10/2010 | 1 | osteosporosis | back pain, severe chest pain, muscle aches--could hardly walk | I am just being released from the hospital after taking my first (and last!) dose of Boniva. Within 24 hours of taking the first dose, i found myself in the emergency room with severe chest pains and pain and numbness down the entire right side of my body. I spent 2 days in the hospital as they were trying to make sure I did not have a heart condition. I am a healthy 52 year old female that blindly followed my doctor's advice to take this medicine. I only wish that I had checked out this website before! My chest pain is now tolerable but my muscles still ache and feel very tight. The discomfort is unreal. I will begin my own regiment of vitimin D and calcium supplement to combat my condition. This is a medicine that should not be on the market. I do intend to call the FDA and register a formal complaint. Hopefully, other unsuspecting women will be spared the pain the many of us have endured. | F | 52 | 1 days 150mg 1X M | 2/9/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Within 24 hrs. of taking the once a month Boniva, I woke up shivering, excruciating low back pain ( could hardly walk), muscle and joint pain, chest wall pain in ribs, skin sensitivity. It was like a bad case of flu without the fever. Advil didnt even touch the pain. I finally took 20mg. prednisone and within a few hours the symptoms subsided. Today I still have a minimal amt. of back pain but still have the chest discomfort when taking a deep breath. I will never take this, or any Osteo. med again. | Took the 150mg once a month on Friday and had these horrible symptoms on Saturday. | F | 53 | 150mg 1X M | 2/7/2010 | 1 | osteopeina | I am writing for my mother who is 82yrs old and started taking Boniva 3 days ago. She was awakened during the night, on the second day, with severe pain in her legs. The pain has not subsided and at times appears worse. I am going to report this event to the FDA and hope she will not continue to be in such severe pain as some of the other patients have reported. | F | 82 | 4 days 1X M | 2/6/2010 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Some nausea, bloating and headache. WEIGHT GAIN! I couldn't believe the weight gain. In 2 months I gain 10 pounds. | It should be taken off of the market! | F | 57 | 2 months 1X M | 2/5/2010 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Red, tearing eyes. | A doctor recently took me off of Boniva and thinks that this has been causing my problem for the past 6 years. No one, including myself, has ever connected it to Boniva until now. Has anyone experienced this condition? | F | 75 | 6 years 1X M | 2/5/2010 | 1 | Osteoporosis | Terrible pain, broken femur | I am writing this short note on behalf of my mother in law who is not very familiar with Internet communications. My mother in law has terrible problems after taking BONIVA for a while. Most recently her femur broke without any outside force and very likely because of this terrible drug. She was also experiencing incredible bone pain and she could only stand the pain by using extremely strong pain medication. I started to research the web when a physician mentioned that her broken femur could be a result of taking BONIVA. I am simply shocked to find all this information about terrible suffering on the Internet and I am convinced there are a lot of people out there that can't voice their suffering and make it public. IMHO this has nothing to do with "side effects' of a drug because it can destroy the life of people who took it. Please, everybody who has these kinds of terrible problems call FDA at 1800-322-1088 or to speak to someone 888-463-6332. There is a form 3500 that one can download from their web site at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Safety/MedWatch/DownloadForms/UCM082725.pdf. You need to fill out and submit electronically or by mail to file an official complaint. I spoke to a staff member at FDA and she stated that there needs to be a volume of complaints from several people for them to recall but she said that most likely they will if they continue to receive complaints similar to ours. Please list all your symptoms as they need to know. | F | 74 | 3 years 1X M | 2/3/2010 | 2 | osteoporosis in one vertebral body | Rotator cuff syndrome (both shoulders) requiring major surgery in one shoulder, plantar fasciitis for the last 15 months (both feet; orthotics, cortisone shots, night splints did not help - cannot walk without pain), thumb pad pain (both thumbs). | I was looking for some kind of connective tissue disease that would explain my symptoms, but after researching it, I suspect the Boniva. Is this what Roche means by "severe muscle, bone and joint pain" as a possible side effect? No more Boniva. I'll take my chances with the osteoporosis, as my quality of life now sucks. I used to be a runner before Boniva, but now I can't even walk without pain. FML! | F | 54 | 5 years | 2/1/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | Thankfully I decided to research this drug before starting the free sample my Dr. provided - I already have hip and knee pain and chronic colitis,I certainly don't need to add to it!! I take 50,000 units of Vitamin D weekly, cannot tolerate calcium supplements. My dexa readings have been the same for 4 years, osteopenia, so I am going to keep chasing my 5 grandchildren, eat my vegetarian diet, take Vitamin D, B12, B6 and pray daily. THANKS for adding your comments - you saved those of us who still had a choice of starting this horrible drug. Bless you all!! | F | 52 | 0 days | 1/30/2010 | 4 | Bone density score very bad | A little flutter in my heart when I am bicycle riding up hill for a long distance at fast speed. | No problems at all reported with Boniva. I have been on Fosamax and later switched to Boniva for 11 years total. | M | 53 | 5 years | 1/26/2010 | 2 | osteoporosis | I have experienced continuous, severe lower and upper back pain beginning after the 3rd time taking monthly boniva pill. The Muscle pain and stiffness in the left hip has been debilitating and both physical therapy and back shots do not help it. I had to stop walking 4 miles at the YMCA. Now, this past month my jaw has began to hurt. | I have just discontinued Boniva and will not take it again. | F | 57 | 5 months | 1/23/2010 | 1 | osteopenia/osteoporosis | I refuse to take boniva or any other osteo drug after researching thoroughly and reading this site. From what I am reading, drug treatment should not even be necessary for osteopenia! Should be able to treat yourself, naturally, with supplements. Do your homework...........do not blindly accept what the Doctors are pushing. It sure sounds like they don't know all that much about these drugs! If this many people are having all these problems, how can these drugs be beneficial to your body???? | F | 67 | 0 days | 1/23/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | rib pain that got worse with each injection, up to the pain level of almost going to the emergency room in the middle of the night, thought I was haviing heart problems. sternum pain, jaw pain, rash on side of chest, some difficulty breathing, no energy, unable to exercise due to pain levels. I can't wait to get this out of my system. | I have researched how this drug works and see that it makes your bones denser, but more brittle, new types of fractures are being seen. I have always eaten a helathy diet, and exercised, now I am looking into the alkaline diet for bone health, check out Susan Ott's website on healthy bones naturally. There are other research based options out there. | F | 57 | 1 years | 1/23/2010 | 1 | Osteoporosis | I have taken Boniva for four months. The first three months I experiences no side effects. But, this fourth pill has created severe heartburn in me. I have not able to sleep for four nights. I have the heartburn day and night and it never goes away. It is so hard to live with. The doctor told me to stop taking it and take Prilesic for the heartburn. | I would not recommend taking this drug to anyone. I am planning to take extra calcium, vitamin D, magnesium, Vitamin K, vitamin A and herbs to correct the problem. | F | 60 | 4 months | 1/22/2010 | 1 | ostopedia | At first severe leg pain, then knee, then hip now I hurt all over. Muscle stiffness, pain. Unbearable! I took fosomax about 3 months. Stopped because of pain. But NOTHING like this. | I have always been very active. Long walks. Large vegetable garden, chickens. I rode a motorcyle myself. I can hardly go up & down the stairs. | M | 58 | 2 months | 1/21/2010 | 1 | Osteopenia | First few months, diarrhea was common, especially the first week after once a month dose. After about 6 months, diarrhea subsided and joint/bone pain started in both hips, knees, calves. Pain changes from one site to another on a nightly basis. One night it will be in my knee, the next night in the hip, and changes from one side to the other side for about two weeks of every month. It wakes me up, and it is very hard to turn over, as it feels like pressure pain. I am sensitive to pain medication, so rely solely on Tylenol, but three Tylenol don't even phase the intense pain. I have taken Boniva for almost two years, and each time I take it, I feel like I am swallowing poison. | I have been very active, first running for about 10 years, and now walking 2-4 miles daily for the last 20 years. I had never had any pain in my legs or hips until I started Boniva. About 6 months into the medication, I consulted my GP about hip pain, which resulted in an x-ray revealing bursitis. The doctor offered me a Cortisone shot, which I refused. My symptoms don't seem as severe the first week after I take the once monthly pill, with the pains increasing for the next two weeks, and then slightly decreasing the last week, and then I start over with another dose. I asked my doctor about these symptoms about 6 months ago, and he talked me into continuing on the Boniva therapy, and wants me to stick with it for three years. After reading your website, I'm not sure I'm going to continue. My pain tolerance is extremely high, but I'm starting to get scared of permanent side effects. I take no other medications except an eye drop for Glaucoma, and have always had excellent health, otherwise. | F | 67 | 22 months | 1/20/2010 | 1 | osteopenia | I posted all the side effects I had in Nov.(SEVERE bone pain in back,hips,heels,pelvic area-sensitivity in teeth and jaw-lowered platelet count and hemoglobin) After 8 weeks of no medicine pain has somewhat gone away. My platelet count and hemoglobin count are back to normal. | I was wondering if anyone else had tested their platelet count and hemoglobin regularly as I do being a platelet donor for 5 years. This was the first time I could not donate due to lowered counts and it stayed this way the entire 7 months I was on the horrible Boniva. I will not take anymore of these drugs and now I must tell my doctor. | F | 55 | 7 months | 1/14/2010 | 1 | osteoporosis | Horrible!!!! Within 8 hours started feeling weak, nauseated and had a headache. My temperature went to 102.6!! I literally thought I would die from the intense bone pain, headache, severe nausea and teeth-chattering fever. My doctor said that he had never heard of such a reaction. Obviously, my doctor was not very well-read on the subject---he is no longer my doctor. It has been 3 years and I have not taken another medication for osteoporosis, other than Vitamin d-3 and calcium. | I think this medication should be taken off the market. Everytime I see Sally Field on tv, I wonder if she really takes it!!! | F | 54 | 1 days | 1/10/2010 |