Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Frightful Fosamax
Fosamax is the most prescribed drug to prevent osteoporosis, mostly in elderly women. As with many allopathic medicines, it costs a lot, cures nothing, and causes problems worse than those it was meant to treat. As usual, lifestyle changes like proper diet and exercise, are the solution and provide side benefits instead of side effects.
Like other fast-tracked-to-Wall-Street drugs that are effectively "tested" on the first users, adverse reports about bisphosphonates came from patients and practitioners long before they came from the FDA or manufacturers.
Bisphosphonate patients have documented excruciating pain from Fosamax since 2001 and GlaxoSmithKline's Boniva since 2006 on askapatient.com, many calling the drugs "poison" and saying they were forced into wheelchairs.
But only in March did the FDA alert health care professionals to the "severe, sometimes incapacitating, musculoskeletal pain" that bisphosphonate drugs could cause in their patients and caution them to consider whether musculoskeletal pain "might be caused by the drug" rather than the bone condition.
