Comments on: Sally Field pimps Boniva — oh, I mean “Bone Health”

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:12:05 +0000

Follow up :
Typographical error, should be one month in the hospital. Looks like 11. Sorry about that. It seemed like 11.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:09:27 +0000

Please don’t take Boniva. I took it for several years, Last winter I fell in my house and broke my femur. It was the most severe pain I have ever had. I spent ll month in the hospital. It has been 8 months and I am just now able to walk some without a cane. I advise anyone I talk to: Please ask your dr if you can take something else if you have severe osteoporosis. I didn’t have it, just osteopina, could develop it. I am 87 years old and don’t have that many months of my life left to waste
getting over a femur break.

By: Mary Warriner

Mary Warriner — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:05:50 +0000

what is the eliptical machine sally uses in her comercial?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:51:42 +0000

Please, Please DO NOT take Boniva, Fosamax, or any of the supposed bone builders — not even if your bone loss is considerable. I have stopped taking the bisphosphonate Boniva [I have also taken and stopped Fosamax in the past]. My doctor is upset with me, but I will suffer the increased stiffness, aches, pains, acid stomach and reflux, and who knows what else, for years — maybe the rest of my life. Even though those drugs are supposed to prevent brittle bones, more and more research is showing increased occurrence of unusual fractures [especially in the femur] and no reduction of fractures overall. These drugs inhibit iconoclasts and so prevent the body from getting rid of old bone [thus increasing thickness, but now research shows also increasing brittleness] AND ALSO PREVENT FORMATION OF NEW BONE. Taking Boniva for a couple of years caused a friend’s vertical femur fracture[she just stood up; she did NOT fall]. Vivian Goldschmidt has written “The Bone Health Revolution” with a lot of documentation and research cited. Bone is 65% mineralized collagen and 35% collagen matrix [flexible]. What are our bones without that 35% flexible collagen? Think of a dry, brittle dead branch and a green, flexible living branch. Continuous old bone removal is a natural process and creates space for new bone formation. Disruption, which bisphosphonates do, prevents new bone formation, leaving bones brittle and inflexible. Bisphosphonates are bone hardeners, not bone builders. What is really scary is that this bone hardening and subsequent brittleness is NOT a side effect like nausea or difficulty swallowing, which affect relatively few. This prevention of old bone removal and new bone formation is what these drugs DO. Everyone who takes these drugs will likely have problems with brittle bones and more aches and pains. Please do the research, stop the drugs, and spread the word!

By: Sandi

Sandi — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:17:46 +0000

Just please be careful, Tova! I would never take it again knowing what I know now. Unless your bone loss is considerable I wouldn’t do it. Or if I had to take it, I’d limit it to under 3 yrs at a time. Good luck, I know the dr’s tend to scare you…sometimes unnecessarily.

By: Tova Bidney

Tova Bidney — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:47:50 +0000

My doctor want’s me to take Boniva but I don’t Know what to do with all the side effect’s I have read.

By: Sandi

Sandi — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:50:21 +0000

I too have a horizontal fracture of my femur which my orthopaedist has attributed to long term use of Fosamax/Boniva. Have always been very active, no falls, no health issues. Now the femur is not healing as expected. So I’m meeting with a leg orthopaedist this week to discuss options (nail in femur?) I’m concerned, don’t want to have the surgery if possible, but don’t want the femur to break completely. And what’s to prevent the other femur from fracturing?? This is driving me crazy! Are there not any class action lawsuits yet? It’s a pity: you follow the dr’s and drug manufacturer’s orders to prevent an issue and it backfires!

By: ghart

ghart — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:07:56 +0000

I am so glad to find a place about Boniva..my pain is getting unbearable.
Been on Boniva for 6 months..I’ve always had pain since 2008..my T score -2.7 High risk for fractures. That scared me so I agreed to Boniva..May 1st was my 6th and final dose..I awoke twice from sleep with acid reflux chocking me! and now this muscule and bone pain makes me want to cry and my hubby said..enough.stop taking it and stop talking about it!
I will be making a appt. Monday talk w/my Dr. I just want the pain to go away..everything I try is temporary.
Can we just stop taking Boniva? I have a lot of bone loss in my hip but what is Boniva suppose to do for that?
I’m listening..
tks
ghart

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:18:24 +0000

I have been taking Boniva for 6 or 7 months for osteopenia, am 56 years old and work in a lab on my feet all day, ride my bike to the bus stop 1 mile away about 4-5 days per week. I have had no ill effects from the Boniva, but was dubious when I was prescribed it. My dad, age 86, told me about the Dr. Besser interviews on ABC, so I am very interested in the Fosamax bone fractures.

By: Rebecca L. McAvoy

Rebecca L. McAvoy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:10:27 +0000

I live in Marietta, Texas and just had a second surgery on my broken femur….this time it had to be cemented in or I could lose my leg. I was never on Foxamax as it made me very sick. Changed be to Actonel & then changed to Boniva. Will need to do some research on how long I’ve been on it. I was walking, swimming arobics and living a normal live. Fell at work and then a month the femur broke. Doctors stated that the case was from the radiation 20 years ago that left my femur bone brittle. I believe the the fall I had a month before had something to do with it also. Please keep me undated. I will be here as I will not be returning to work this time.