Side effects of fosamax symptoms and conditions

After being on Fosamax for 6 years, my yearly bone scan didn't show much difference in my bone loss. I started wondering about the pain in my knees, right hip, hands and fingers. It wasn't until I started noticing my index and little fingers starting to grow in the opposite positions and hardening around the first joint, and shooting pains that I started looking up side effects of Fosamax. I have taken myself off this medication since reading that it can cause joint pain. I'm not sure this is the problem with my fingers, but time will tell. Who wants crooked fingers caused by Fosamax.

recently developed under skin "rash",from ankle and upward on legs, my dr. is now doing blood work for ecchymosis petechiae, I am curious if anyone has this experience while using Fosamax D 70 mg. I am in good health and it is possible that this symptom is not at all related to Fosamax, which by the way I have stopped now for a while and probably won't go back. Stopped due to severe ache/pain in shoulder area and lower, so bad it was difficult to walk properly. Since stopping it I am walking straighter and no ache/pain. Even though my latest bone scan showed my osteopenia was better, I am off the drug on my own.

After three years on this drug I have had a lot of hair loss and terrible numbness in my toes. The numbness was toward the end of the day when I would sit down. Until I began to read what others have had to say on this web site about numbness of the feet and hair loss I had no idea that Fosamax was the cause. I did not experience these symptoms until I had been on the drug for a couple of years. My homeopath told me to read about the side effects of Fosamax on the web and that is how I found this web site.