lindajo

Hello, everyone! I decided to register so I could tell you my experiences with Fosamax.

First, my aunt told me a couple of years ago that her doctor had put her on the "drug" for osteoporosis. It wasn't too long before she began complaining to me that she had joint pain and that food no longer tasted good, that she almost gagged when she tried to eat. She was also suffering eye troubles. Two years after beginning treatment, she began falling down with what the doc called seizures for want of a better term. She would become completely disoriented after these "episodes". I began to wonder if Fosamax could be responsible, since she had none of these problems prior to taking it. So, I came home and began researching the drug.

I discovered that Fosamax is the same poison acid that takes the soap scum off your bathtub. The reason one cannot lie down after taking it for at least 30 minutes, is that if reflux occurs, it will burn your esophagus and throat. It also burns the stomach, intestines and liver, so that you can get ulcers. Fosamax does not build living bone. All it does is kill the osteoclasts that remove old dead bone. Because of this, the osteoblasts cannot build in new, living bone like they should. So your bone scans show increased density, but it is layers of dead bone that have not been removed. This causes the bones to be weaker than they were to begin with.

A dear friend of mine at my church began having the same symptoms as my aunt. She ended up in the hospital because she was falling down with these same "seizures", had the joint pain, and eye trouble as well as stomach hurt. I asked her if she were taking Fosamax. The answer was "yes!" She stopped taking it and has had no further "seizures". She had started walking with a cane because her joints had gotten so bad, but now she can walk without just fine. My sister and I have discovered 8 people in our churches and neighborhoods who have the same symptoms and are all taking Fosamax. This is no coincidence. Even my doctor says we are on to something here.

Unfortunately for my aunt, her daughter says she must obey doctor's orders and keep taking the "drug". They've taken away her car and her townhouse, put her into assisted living. She is down to 77 pounds now with her clothes on. It is killing her - I fully expect her to die from it. No amount of reasoning will change the mind of her doctor. She claims if I were right, the company or the FDA would have come up with these side effects. Trouble is, no doctors are connecting these symptoms with Fosamax, just like they didn't with Vioxx, which is made by the same company and was not properly tested long-range. So, please do not take this drug. It is devastating. There are other drug companies that are making Fosamax under different names, so beware of those, too. Have any of you suffered seizure-like or ministroke-like episodes on this drug? My prayer is that the word will get out before millions are hurt or killed by it. Lindajo