Reducing joint inflammation keeps people with arthritis pain-free and mobile. It also preserves bone health – that is, if certain classes of anti-inflammatory and disease-modifying drugs are used. But when inflammation is brought down with corticosteroid drugs, bones may be harmed. Corticosteroids, such as prednisone, make bones weak because they decrease the amount of calcium absorbed by the intestines, increase the amount excreted through the kidneys and can have a toxic effect on the cells that form bone.
Currently, the bisphosphonates are the standard treatment for corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis, but study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that for people with prednisone-induced osteoporosis who are at particularly high risk for fracture, using parathyroid hormone – a bone-formation agent called teriparatide injection (Forteo) – may be a good option. Parathyroid hormone is approved for treating women who develop osteoporosis due to a decline in estrogen after menopause, or for men whose osteoporosis is linked to a hormone deficiency.
In the study of 428 men and women, ages 22 to 89, whose osteoporosis was caused by taking prednisone for three months or longer, bone density of the half who received the daily injections increased by 7.2 percent – twice as much as it did in those who took the alendronate pills (3.4 percent). Those who received the injections also had fewer spine fractures, but, as a side effect, some had periodically elevated blood levels of calcium.
do some weights,& strengthening exercises.
Oh yes, I use a product over the counter, that helps joints, there are 2 or 3 advertised regularly. I think it helps.
I used to lay on the floor and cry my hips and hands hurt so badly. I play tennis,ice skate, dance and work part time. I am almost 75 yrs old.It is an on going work in progress, but it has paid off. I was
in my late 30's when I started having trouble, and have just kept trying to do more things as the years have gone on, that are supposed to help. I eat a very healthy diet too, that help build bone. I hope this helps someone . Linda
Having said that I want anyone considering "Reclast" as a treatment option for their Osteopenia/Osteoarthritis disease to KNOW THAT IF YOUR CALCIUM IS ELEVATED INTO THE 10'S (OR HIGHER ON YOUR LAB RESULTS) IT MIGHT VERY POSSIBLY BE AN INDICATION THAT YOU HAVE A TUMOR ON ONE OF YOUR PARATHYROID GLANDS SECRETING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF PARATHYROID HORMONE!
CAUTION!!!! SHOULD BE EXERCISED PRIOR TO HAVING AN IV SOLUTION OF "RECLAST" INJECTED DUE TO THE FACT THAT "RECLAST" IS CONTRAINDICATED--I.E.-DO NOT USE "RECLAST"IN THE PRESENCE OF EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EXISTING "PARATHYROID TUMOR."
Reclast was used on me under the above circumstances and I experienced a very violent and severe reaction to the action of this drug. My "Reclast" side-effects put me in bed for a total of almost three months and it was over 4 months before I was able to resume what is normal activity for me on a daily basis. I seriously thought I was going to die and had absolutely no recourse or ability to reverse the side-effects I was experiencing because once it is injected as an IV-Solution it cannot be stopped and it has to run its full-course until it is completed. There's not a way to stop its side-effects which are horrific--going to an Emergency Room is of no value as they can do nothing to stop the all consuming pain everywhere in your body, high fevers, chills, grinding teeth, horrible non-stop headaches, total body weakness and etc...too many too list them all.
I am not trying to scare anyone who knows that their lab results for Calcium and/or Parathyroid Hormone are NOT elevated I am only concerned with trying to protect anyone else who might possibly have a Parathyroid Tumor from experiencing the horror of months' of uncontrollable excruciating pain and suffering which I experienced.
Most doctors will tell you that these Parathyroid Tumors occur in only "1 in 100,00 people" but I am here to tell you they are much more common than that and are responsible for many people dying of unexplained or misdiagnosed causes everyday. If you don't believe me checkout, "Parathyroid.com" by Doctor, James Norman, Leading Parathyroid Expert and Surgeon, located in Tampa, FL.
Parathyroid Tumors/Adenomas are responsible for secreting excessive amounts of Parathyroid Hormone(PTH) which causes a quite serious form of Osteoporosis/Osteopenia by leeching the Calcium from all of your body's bones and causing it to circulate throughout your bloodstream where in larger quantities than normally required by the body it causes damage to all of your major organs.
Just be aware that NOT ALL Osteoporosis is caused by being in a Menopausal State like mentioned in this article it can also be caused by the side-effects of having to use Steroidal Drugs over a period of time and that these particular causes can respond favorably to the Bisphosphonate drugs that are available for such treatment of Osteoporosis--be aware, however, that they all can have unpleasant and sometimes possibly harmful side-effects IF you don't carefully follow the dosing instructions.
I currently have fractures in both femurs after taking Fosomax for 9 years.
I really need a treatment that works before the wheelchair is my only solution.
Thank you
she fell and broke her wrist.
she has also been treated for cancer in the neck will this medication do any thing to bring the cancer back? can you please reply to the EMail address thank you
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