Thanks Cynthia. Same here. I did the Prolia infusions for almost 3 years. It was horrible. Dr said my osteoporosis was severe enough that there was a hip fracture in my future and it would be a life changer so I went along with his recommendations. My last Dexa Scan showed no porosis but he said my T score was still pretty bad and he recommended I go back on the Prolia.
I put on my big girl panties, pulled my self up to my whole intimidating 62 (barely) inches and said NO! No Prolia. It may of helped me but the side effects affected my quality of living. Joint pain, fatigue, depressed immune system. Skin infections and if you do your homework on line you will find that it can contribute to intestinal bleeds which is what I had in Sept of 21. I wasn't going to go there again.
Promised him I would do more weight bearing exercises...like hauling 50lb feed bags, 20lb water jugs, helping DH roll around 200lb sections of fire wood into the tractor bucket isn't enough weight bearing exercising. Promised I would walk more and keep up on my 1200 mg of Citracal and 5000 mg of vitamin D3. But no more Prolia.
Plus the expense was pretty bad. Without insurance or Medicare a dose was at the time over 2400 dollars. I was paying over 260 out of pocket, close to 300$. Told my DH that it was the first time in my life I ever paid for being tortured.
