Femur symptoms and conditions

oh please your all a bunch of whiners. I don't understand that when people get something medically new that they seem to blame every little thing on it!!! seriously!!! if it were so bad it would not be on the market..... i have had it for two years.....a little cramping in the beginning which is NORMAL and as STATED on the side effects list. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND that these are listed because they DO AND HAVE happened to other people. That is why they are listed! NOW if you died, got cancer, pregnant or what have you then you can bitch. BUT PLEASE don't complain about the LISTED side effects. it is a wonderful product and it does just as it claims. yea the cramping sucks....the spotting is a pain.....men can feel it during intercourse and yes sometimes they can bump it and hurt you. also it causes cysts to grow on your ovaries which can sometimes require surgery. it can also grow outside your uterine wall at time. and it can fall out. all kinds of things can happen that are LISTED. what i would recommend people should do BEFORE they leap into bed with a new contraceptive is RESEARCH the SIDE EFFECTS BEFORE you decide you want it or not. its simple read the damn sheet and decide if you can live with the side effects. maybe one....or all...or none. THEN DECIDE.

I HAVE BEEN ON PREDNISONE FOR 10 YRS. I AM ON 5 MG FOR 4 YRS. I AM HAVING SEVERE PAIN IN RIGHT HIP. I CAN'T LAY ON RIGHT SIDE AT ALL. WHEN I WALK OR BEND ITS FINE. BUT TO LAY ON BACK OR SIT OR RIGHT SIDE I HAVE SEVERE PAIN. I SAW THE DR TODAY HE SAID THE TOP OF THE FEMUR IS SOMETIMES EFFECTED BY PREDNISONE. LIKE BLEEDING OR OSTEOARTHRITIS. HE GAVE ME NAPORSIN. DOESN'T WORK STILL HAVE SEVERE PAIN. I HAVE POLYMYOSITIS. THE PAIN IS SO BAD IT HAS BEEN GETTING WORSE OVER 6 MONTHS. GOING FOR XRAYS. I AM A NURSE AND CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

I was on Fosamax for over 7 years and in October of 2006 I broke my left femur. in March of 2007 I broke my right femur. I now believe that the fosamax is what caused the brakes. Both times my leg just broke each time I just slipped and when I tried to catch myself my let torked a little and the leg broke. I had been having lots of pain in both legs and had been experiencing lots of weakness in the muscle of both legs I was also having pain in both knees and was having trouble walking. I have also had lots of neck and back pain. Have had MRI and could never find any thing wrong. I quit taking fosamax last June and am better but still have lots of weakness in the muscles on my legs. I have no idea how long it take for fosamax to get out of your system Will I ever be the same. I am 65 years old and I know some is just age but I know many women much older that I am that have much less problems that I have.

After 3 weeks on Fosamax, I had an attack of back pain that put me in bed for a couple of days. I wondered if it might be the Fosamax. I quit taking it for 2 weeks. I thought I would give it another try to see if it came back. This time after taking Fosamax for 3 weeks, my ankle is swollen and I am having gout like symptoms and feel achy like I have the flu. My podiatrist did some blood tests for gout. The results came back fine. Low uric acid levels. I do not have gout. He took a lot of fluid off of my ankle joint. The pain has been horrible. I am in athletic shape, working out at the gym 5 days a week, and bicycling. This has been torture. I am stopping the Fosamax. I had a horrible reaction to Lipitor a few years ago with pain from my knee into my back. I could hardly walk. I am the one that figured out what was up then and stopped the med.

All I can say is:

1 – for no “explained reason” my neck collapsed and I needed a life saving fusion operation to prevent my spinal chord from going any farther into the brain. I was told that I “should” have died. I did not. It was less than one year from starting FOSAMAX. and I had no other symptoms that would have indicated the neck would collapse. Kind of like DEAD JAW, but in the neck.

Thankfully, vIOXX (which (allegedly…) prevents bones from healing (and spines – do a google on “vioxx bone healing”) was not on the market at the time… and the operation did fuse (else death).

Go forward one year… a later total lumbar operation, (also going to be added to a lawsuit in re to FOSAMAX) causing the collapse of the lumbar spine was needed. Sure, before FOSAMAX (allegedly) did its thing, it was supposed to be an EASY, ‘no sweat” operation that would merely help my body geometry a bit with a simple procedure - sure one more year of FOSAMAX and the spine was now about ten times worse than expected. The surgeon was stuned.

Anyway, that (total lumbar fusion) - failed because (allegedly) along to the market comes vIOXX…. I am pursing the detail, but as FOSAMAX is now known to give many DEAD JAW and it now appears that my neck bones destruct – which are near the jaw decided to destruct. Further, FOSAMAX is showing to have more problems than DEAD JAW. Had FOSAMAX and vIOXX not entered my life, I would have merely had arthritis and had done fine except for some pain. My brother, having exactly the same arthritis, DID NOT have either “poison pill”, and has done just fine, by the way.

2 - They are now finding that FOSAMAX also tends to provide problems with long bones and people are breaking femurs (allegedly) from FOSAMAX. Nice huh? So, now what happens? I simply fell and broke my femur – or I am now realizing that I broke my FEMUR THEN FELL – another thing people are finding out about (allegedly….). It also should not have happened as I DID NOT HAVE OSTEOPOROSIS and had fallen many times before I took the FOSOMAX POISON and it imbedded into my bones (takes about 6-12 months). FOSAMAX took me down big time, vIOXX kept me down. Almost having died 3-4 times from operations that failed and complications - I did not die obviously, and will continue my pursuit of the truth – look for a web site in a month or two…..

3 – So, FOSAMAX caused/contributed (allegedly again I must say….) the broken femur, and vIOXX stopped it from healing. That is called the “double whammy” in recent vernacular. After several operations (and over 6 months of hospitalization; 8 months total) failing without anyone knowing why or expecting that (my overall health was just fine except for arthritis and it was supposed to be a routine operation), they were about ready to amputate the leg. Fortunately, an astute NJ surgeon 150 miles away just realized IT WAS NOT GOING TO HEAL, and patched it together with glue, thus saving the leg and walking for first time in more than ½ year.

4 – I am going to leave alone the issue of “stress fractures” as this is enough to digest for now… but watch out for this issue….

5 – someone mentioned this: -- > “Can Fosamx D 70 mg be the cause of Ecchymosis Petechiae, I have developed what looks like an "under the skin" rash, on the ankles and upward on the leg, sometimes dark and also gets lighter…”

All I can say is that I went from having TEXTBOOK just beautiful circulation in my legs (was sincerely told it should be in a textbook) to a lot of problems, including very similar to the above AFTER taking FOSAMAX for 2 years. That was another quick thing to happen. Readers can interpret if FOSO may have caused that.

6 – I shall not forget, also, the horrible aches and pains I had within a few months of having FOSOMAX. I just thought it was arthritis acting up. NO, now I know it was from FOSAMAX. My whole history fits like a glove…

In fact, FOSAMAX brought me down, and vIOXX kept me down (allegedly). Merck should not sell their wares when they know their bone “science” was not “science” but a fraudeulent, dangerous and even (vIOXX) killing poison(s)…. (allegedly….)….

FOSOMAX and VIOXX were the very worst things to have entered my life. I pity others who had them concurrently. I shall spend 2009 finding others in the same situation with bone – spine problems from either or both concurrently.

If you have have had a bone/spine destruction or healing problem and taking FOSAMAX and/or vIOXX at the time – please feel free to email me at badbonehealing@hvc.rr.com. I will be creating a Web Site to dialogue and share research on. These (bone – spine) are horrible problems from these two poisonous (allegedly…) drugs and the PUBLIC NOW NEEDS TO KNOW. I asked the courts to help, and they have not. So, I cannot be blamed for not being transparent and doing as I said I would do.

Thank You…

bones
badbonehealing@hvc.rr.com

I am a 72 year old white female who has been on Fosamax over 5 years for osteoporosis which runs in my family. In December, I had severe discomfort in the thigh area of my right leg. X-rays ordered by my GP showed nothing. Sent me to orthopedic surgeon whose x-rays also showed nothing. He ordered bone dye test which showed stress fractures of BOTH femurs. No one, NOT EVEN THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, could figure out how it happened since I had not fallen or had other trauma. When I began to do my own research, I found answers to other problems I had been experiencing, for which no one had answers.....bone and muscle pain, hair loss, depression. I realize doctors are overwhelmed with info but I am especially disappointed in the orth. surgeon who should have known this was a possibility since the study came out in The Orthopedic Journal. As I continued my research, I find that women have been experiencing these side effects for years. I was previously very active and a dedicated walker, but this has robbed me of my confidence since I fear breaking other bones. The femur is the largest and strongest bone in the body and if I broke both of those with no trauma, what else could happen? I want to get the word out to women but am not sure the best vehicle for that. Any suggestions? There are Fosamax lawyers anxious to jump on this but I am more interested in spreading the word, not litigation, however I think there are possibly many unreported cases of the Fosamax side effects just because people don't know where to turn.

My sister was on Fosamax for 7 years. A few months ago she was walking and her femur broke... After surgery and check up it was determined that her other femur had a fracture in it too so she needed another surgery. This is all from a drug that is supposed to make your bones stronger. They are just finding out about this side effect. Recently they told her that if you have thick bones, you should only take Fosamax for 3 years. Personally, I will NEVER take this drug.

I am a 66 year old male being treated for giant cell arteritis and have been on prednisone for one year and ten days. The disease and its treatment with prednisone has completely reordered my life. My doctor told me that I dodged the big bullet but there would be more. He was right. The 60 mg dose of prednisone I started with was both a life and eye saver. Three months later I was down to 40 mg and I was starting to sleep more than the two - four hours per night that allowed me to all kinds of things done which the increased adrenlin made possible.

Unfortunately, the prednisone made control of my blood sugar nearly impossible even with maximum dosages of metformin and avandia. I was soon forced to add injections of insulin to my daily regime. As I gradually reduced the amount of prednisone I gained some measure of control but was not able to start decreasing the amounts of insulin I was taking until I had dropped down below 20 mg. Now that I am down to 5mg I'm off the insulin and two weeks ago I took my last metformin tab.

Prednisone accelerated the growth of cataracts in both of my eyes. I was taking the prednizone with the hope it would drive the arteritis into remission and I would avoid going blind. And I was blinded anyway by the cataracts. Fortunately the cataract surgery I had in May and June better than restored my sight. I now only need glasses for reading. I was thrilled and could even see myself going back to work at least on a part time basis. No such luck.

After telling my doctor how great it was to be able to read again I mentioned that I thought I had a groin pull because I had been experiencing pain in my groin area and the top of my right thigh just above the knee. That got his attention and he said it might be related to the prednisone. He sent me for a MRI of both hips. The results were not good. I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis in both femur bones with some deterioration of the right femoral ball. A month later I had core decompression surgery of the right femur. The surgeon told me that we had caught it early and this surgery had a 50/50 chance of restimulating the venus blood path that fatty deposits caused by the prednisone had closed off causing the bone to die. Unfortunately, it now looks that it didn't work for me and I have additional micro fractures of the ball joint that weren't there when he operated. My left hip isn't far behind and I now have enough pain in both hips even with the anti inflamatory medicine I'm taking to make it difficult for me to walk to the mail box or negotiate stairs.

I hope that I'll be able to wean myself off the prednisone entirely, but for those folks that are putting up with all the most common side effects, getting down to and below 5 mg per day will seriously reduce if not eliminate the effect they have on you. That includes the fat face and turkey neck, and the thin skin that shows vividly every bump and bleeds profusly with the slightest abrasion that more often than not you can't recall the incident that caused it. The giant cell (also known as templar) arteritis disease I developed was devastating to me and really put me down for the count. I lost 30 of my obese pounds in the first two weeks of symptoms I had with this disease. Even though I was over weight, I was very active and got lots of exercise doing my own lawn work ( 1 acre lot) with a walk behind mower and lots of leaves to rake. Within two months after diagnosis I had managed to work my way up to a two mile walk everday. After 3 months I was walking between 15 and 20 miles every week. Now, as I said, I'm lucky to walk to the end of my driveway to get the mail.

Prednisone is not a miricle drug. It is a terrible medicine with terrible side effects that has been arround for a very long time. Unfortunately, it is the only medicine available to successfully treat a wide range of autoimmune diseases that have no cure and would be absolutely unbearable without it.

I have been on zocor because of high cholesterol. It was caused by a kidney problem I have. I now can hardley walk across the room because of the hip pain,leg pain, femur, side aches,I even have pain in my back side which makes it hard to sit. I have trouble sitting, standing. and laying down I can not stand to be touched any where below the waist. it sends pain all thought my lower body. My back hurts also. I also have problems with my left arm. I can not even life a cup of coffee with it and at times have to use my right arm to move my left one. We thought I might have fibermyalgia until I came upon this website. I also had my medications changed a month ago and have read on a different web site that if you take zocor with cyclosporine it can increase the chances of muscle damage. I have such sever pain at times I have gone in to the emergency room for relief. Even taking a pain medication and getting pain shots at times has ony relieved it for a few hours. I have not been able to sleep because of the pain. is there any lawsuits against cyclosporine or zocor. No where is there any reference that you can not take both at the same time.

Hi there... I have just found this site and I'm very grateful to everyone who has taken the time to sit down and tell us their story mine is very similar. BELIEAVE me I feel like I am pushing my family away and I'm losing my relationship with the one person who used to make me feel like I was the most beautiful woman in the world.
I'm a 40 yr female have or maybe had a great job that I loved... On April 12 I noticed a small red rash on my lower right leg no big deal went to the Dr. gave me some cream and sent me home well I went to work and by the afternoon things just seem to get bad my legs began to swell and little blisters started to pop up so I went to the E.R. they had no Idea what was wrong with me got me an appointment to see a skin DR. so I went home but the pain from the swelling was so bad I could not walk any longer went back to the E.R. they gave me some pain meds and called in some other DR. things had gone from bad to worse my feet had gotten to big I could not put on shoes and I had bruised completely across the bottoms of my feet they put me on 30mg of PRED. and it seem to be under control sent me home after 3 day in the hospital things were good for about a day or so I thought I would go back to work well that was not a very good idea.... My sister had to come and take me back to the ER where they did 2 biopsies and still have no idea what is wrong with me. so now they put me on 60mg of PRED the rash has gone, lots of scaring on my feet because of the blisters once they broke and dried out but I can live with that....
It's the side effects that they don’t tell you about,
MOON FACE I can't look at myself cause really that’s not me anymore,
WEIGHT GAIN I have always been thick but I can't handle the extra 30lbs I've gained,
MOOD SWINGS are unbearable,
PAINFUL JOINTS, CAMEL HUMP, BLOODY NOSE, BRUSING, SORE TEETH/GUMS, DRY EYES, FAITIGE, and worsted of all
I don’t have a support systems in my life so I'm fighting this by myself everyday, I have 3 kids that I have tried to explain all this to but they don't get it and well my boyfriend he tells me he understands that its the meds pushing him away but if I can't figure away to control this I will lose every thing including my job. I cant even get the energy together half the time to make it up and down the stairs which also comes with the pain of just trying to lift each leg up to climb the stairs, I also have the camel hump which I find very painful, The acne and the hair growth that I have to get wax off once a month cause I feel like a man I feel like a loser and as of the last couple of days I just want to give up I am now down to 20mg per day but I find that I am feeling so sick I cant think straight I hope and pray for each and every person out there that has to take this MED that you get better and I do hope that my symptoms wont come back. Thanks for being here and I’m glad I found this site. I know now that I’m not losing my mind completely. Elizabeth.

I have received kenalog injections (only one) per year during allergy season for severe allergic rhinitis. I was recently out of town and was miserable and tha local ER would not give me the injection. The reason was beacause it can cause avascular necrosis especially involving the head of the femur. Which means it can slow down the blood supply to
the top of the femur and cause the bone to die. I had never heard of this before and I will probably still take this injection as planned when I get back to town.

I broke my femur and had two rods place from my hip to my knee and they gave me vicodin. I liked the way i felt but wen i came off it i couldnt sleep at all and i started beaten myself at night because of how mad i was.. Im good now

Avascular Necrosis - Beware!

I have been taking Prednisone off and on for about threee years now for reoccuring iritis. Have been up to 60 mgs./day a few times, and many of the times I taper, no matter how slowly, the iritis comes back. Since you can go blind from iritis, I guess Prednisone is the lesser evil.

Anyway, during my first longer period of taking it, I had many of the common side effects - weight gain, double chin, facial hair, hyperactivity, moon face, etc. After visiting a classic homeopath, he gave me a remedy which kept the iritis away for a few months. Subsequent attacks did not respond to the remedy though. I have been back on Prednisone for about 8 - 9 months now, and have a drastic side effect to report, which I haven't seen before here.

After a long road trip (10 hours) I began to have strange pains in my upper right hand thigh, which seemed to eminate from the leg joint. No matter what I did, they didn't go away and not even 2 Lortabs could help the pain. I went to the orthopedic doctor and he diagnosed avascular necrosis. The is a condition where the blood flow has been cut off to the bone, in this case, the femur, and the bone begins to die off. If it can be detected in an X-ray, it is already pretty far along. An MRI, which I had yesterday, shows best what is going on.

This is a DIRECT side effect of long-term prednisone use which no one ever told me about! So if you have joint pain, especially at the end of a longer bone, BE SURE and talk to a doctor about it. It is going to be a serious deal to get rid of this.

My mother had been on advair for a few years....she has had multiple fractures from her jaw to her ribs to her FEMUR (the strongest bone in the body)!!! Has anyone else experienced this or known anyone who has??? Please let me know how long after the advair stops, that this will continue. Thanks...Elissa (*******)