Posts Tagged ‘bone loss’

Osteoporosis Hip-Fracture Drug Risks?

Why am I not surprised that another highly popular 3.5 billion dollar drug (bisphosphonnate) turns out to be deleterious to your body.

Two new studies show the bones of some post-menopausal women who take a bone-loss drug like Actonel, Bonive, or Fosamax to ward off osteoporosis, result in hardening of their bones and eventual brittleness with a high risk of fracture of the spine or pelvis.

Researchers are now urging limiting the length of time people take these drugs.  The FDA is now reviewing the long term use of these drugs.

Here we are again spending a fortune on high priced prescription drugs which lead to the eventual  destruction of the very bones they were designed to protect, leaving these users at severe risk for spine and hip fractures.

Why are doctors prescribing these drugs in the first place when they have available a permanent cure for bone loss that is nutritional and only costs pennies a day?

Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser, chief of orthopedic-trauma surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York said, “These drugs are good drugs.  They strengthen bone and protect you from fractures for a while. (Italics mine)  But in some people they can become deleterious after a period of time.”

It is difficult for me to understand how a doctor, at his intellectual level, can claim that these expensive drugs are “good drugs” that will protect you from fractures “for a while”.

Whatever happened to Vitamin D-3, Calcium and Magnesium, which cost pennies a day, to naturally build bone strength and keep them strong for the rest of your life?

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