Fosamax and aching

Yesterday (about 36 hours ago) I took my first Fosamaz, for some minor bone thinning. A few hours ago, I felt like I had pulled something across my back and it has gotten worse. The pain seems to have spread especially to my knees but also my elbows and hands. I have rheumatoid arthritis and take methotrexate, plaquenil, and naproxen. Normally with my arthritis, I might ache SOMEWHERE (for the most part pain is controlled), but now I'm aching EVERYWHERE, it hurts to move. I just thought about looking up possible side effects online and found this site. This feels almost like the flu, but I don't have a headache--yet, anyway. I just took a muscle relaxer to help--I hope I didn't make it worse.

I had a bone density test that revealed that I had major bone loss, so my doctor put me on fosamax. I have been taking fosamax once weekly 70mg for about a year. About 6 months ago I started noticing bruises on my legs and I know I didn't do anything to cause them, like bump into anything. I also started having really bad leg pain below my knee on the tops of my legs, shin area to my feet. They were aching, and any pressure on them, such as crossing your legs laying down was painful also. I started having pain in my lower chest. The doctor said to stop taking the fosamax for 2 weeks. I have stopped for a month now and the bruises have subsided a bit, but no more leg pain (which was my main concern) and the chest pain is gone too. I will NEVER take fosamax again.

I was advised to take Osteophos (Sodium Alendronate) 10Mg. in the morning as I was diagnosed having avascular necrosis of left femur head. I started feeling pain and soreness in my legs. I was taking some ayurvedic medicines also. I could not find out what was causing this muscle pain and bone pain. I stopped both the remedies. Follwing this, I felt burning in the sole of my left leg which lasted for about 1 month. After a gap of nearly 45 days. I again took Osteophos. I again started feeling the same sort of pain, even more severe this time. The whole body was aching. This following sore throat and cough which lasted one week. I stopped the medicine. This severe pain subsided after a week. But now I am again feeling buring pain in my soles, more in the left leg than in right. I also have weakness in my muscles of the whole body which I had never felt before. My avascular necrosis problem is more or less recovered. After a gap of 20 days, I am taking ayurvedic medicines now with some relief.

This is just for information of those who are taking fosamax.

AK Sharma, BHEL, Hardwar

I started taking Fosamax on a Friday morning and by Saturday morning I was aching. By Saturday night I had severe aching and chest pains. My doctor said that my only other alternative was a nasal spray derived form salmon which could cause severe nose bleeds and nose sores PLUS aches.
So I decided to take my chances with Fosamax and hoped that the side effects would go away once my body got used to it. I just started my second week dose again this past Friday and have developed ongoing shortness of breath and chest pain. I can not live like this on a day to day basis and have decided after reading all the different side effects that various women have experienced while taking this drug to discontinue its use. As I am at risk for Osteophorsis according to my Bone Density Test, I can only hope that I never actually develop it and put put myself at risk in the future for hip fracture and loss of teeth.