Fosamax Weekly For Men

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I'm currently taking the daily form without problems but my rheumatologist
suggested 70mg weekly instead. Is there any advantage to this apart from
convenience?

[cyli@visi.com]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:44:04 +0100, "newscache.cable.ntlworld.com"
<trevor._@virgin.net> wrote:

>I'm currently taking the daily form without problems but my rheumatologist
>suggested 70mg weekly instead. Is there any advantage to this apart from
>convenience?
>
Not as far as I can tell. But convenience makes for better
compliance, which is pretty important. _You_ may take your meds as
directed, but many skip them or take them incorrectly. Some of that
can be worked around, as in me taking my thyroid pills a bit
incorrectly and winding up with a slightly higher prescription, but
that's not true with Fosamax and some other meds.

Conversely, there doesn't seem to be a bit of harm in doing the once
weekly dose, so you get to decide if convenience outweighs daily
routine. In my case, my daily routine is to get that thyroid down my
throat at first arising (except on Fosamax day), so it makes it a lot
better for me and for others who have other daily meds to be taken
first thing in the a.m..
--

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Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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[John]

I just spotted your note about thyroid and fosamax. I
am just a patient but was recently advised that if i
had
a thyroid concern that i could not be treated for it by
normal drugs due to my osteoporosis. It surprised me to
see your post.

The endocrinologist's quote about that is as follows:

"If the labs come back positive then I would NOT put
him on thyroid suppression because of his osteoporosis
and the increased risk of bone turnover on thyroid
hormone."

He wrote that in a letter to both my family physician
and my osteoporosis treating physician. The caps on the
NOT are his.

I just had a biopsy and am awaiting the lab results.

Sincerely
John

cyli@visi.com wrote:
In my case, my daily routine is to get that thyroid
down my
> throat at first arising (except on Fosamax day), so it makes it a lot
> better for me and for others who have other daily meds to be taken
> first thing in the a.m..

> http://www.visi.com/~cyli

[cyli@visi.com.invalid]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:53:37 GMT, John <n2rdv@optonline.net> wrote:

> I would NOT put
>him on thyroid suppression because of his osteoporosis
>and the increased risk of bone turnover on thyroid
>hormone."


Key words are thyroid suppression. I'm on thyroid pills because I
let the doctors remove my thyroid gland entirely with radioactive
iodine. If I don't take it, eventually I become a lump and / or die.
If I don't take Fosamax, my bones just follow an ugly progression
(assuming I don't go into weight lifting and calcium on the hour and
all that, some of which I'm doing anyway.) toward becoming one with
jello.

If they're talking about suppressing your thyroid, it sounds as if
you're having a thyroid storm or overproduction. Not good for your
bones, but more thyroid might be less good (giving thyroid to an
overproducing gland sounds just wrong, but it works in many cases,
btw). Thyroid and bones are a very tricky act and have to work
together. Too low is about as bad as too high. Delicate balance.

May I suggest that, if you have not already done so, you go visit
alt.support-thyroid? A wonderful group. If your thyroid is
overproducing, your doctors are going to want to do something about
it. The group can tell you what their doctors did about it and how
they feel about it. I, for instance, would advise a lot of long hard
thought before allowing total extermination of the gland by
radioactive iodine if I knew then what I know now.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

[John/Carmen Carmen]

Hi,
I have thyroid disease. What I can't understand, the doctors can't find
a happy medium for the amount I need to take. They are always having me
get blood tests. The amt of medicine goes from .50 to .75 or from .75
to .50. I was told that too much thyroid medicine is no good for the
bones. So, the way I see it, the doctors cure one thing and destroy
another.

Carmen

Talk to you later.

[cyli@visi.com.invalid]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:09:17 -0700 (MST), sheandi18@webtv.net
(John/Carmen Carmen) wrote:

>Thyroid medicine in itself doesn't help bone loss. That's what I was
>told.


Nope. It just makes you more normal. However, too much or too little
thyroid or parathyroid rioting around in your system apparently does
do nasties to your bones.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

[John/Carmen Carmen]

Hi,
The doctors can't seem to keep my medicine regulated. It's always going
from .50 to .75 or visa versa. It gets annoying to keep going for blood
tests. At the moment they don't cost me anything, but next year they
will. I told the doctors that I won't be able to pay for these blood
tests next year.

Carmen

Talk to you later.