alert on osteoporosis meds and irregular heartbeat

[grannyh]

Since all of the medications made me ill.. I do not take any of them but was surprised when I heard this on the news.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster ... is-dr.html
grannyh

[tex]

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Thanks for posting that.

Tex

P S It's good to see you posting again. I hope your MC is behaving itself these days.

[grannyh]

I have had to restore my computer a couple of times this year and lost a lot of stuff and this link. The third service pack for Vista totalled my computer.. found out I had to disable hyperthreading for the service pack to install.. never did enable it again and the computer works fine. Had a virus and the fan went bad so it was in the shop for two weeks.. twice.

So far the entocort is keeping me in remission.. one a day. Thought I would never get down to one a day.. took over two years to do it!
grannyh

[tex]

I hear you on the computer problems. I've had to replace a lot of parts this year, on the one I'm using right now, and a couple of weeks ago, I had to restore the "C" drive image, due to a virus that popped up every time I booted it, even though my anti-virus program would quarantine it each time. I finally tracked the parts problem down to an unstable/inadequate power supply, that apparently was starving some components for power, and every so often, it would fry one. Before I figured it out, it got two hard drives, a video card, and the motherboard, one at a time.

It's great to hear that the Entocort is working so well. That information on how long it took to get the dose down to one a day is excellent information for any one else using it, especially newbies thinking about trying it. You can't find valuable information like that anywhere else but on a discussion board like this.

Thanks,
Tex

[barbaranoela]

WOW Granny------interesting post---for a long time I was taking meds for OSTEO and I did suffer with PALPITATIONS--which is why my retired GP insisted that I had MVP---grrrrrrrrrrrrrr----never a thought of OSTEO meds--and his SPECIALTY was CARDIOLOGY!!!
One day while listening to my heart he said QUOTE *is your heart JUMPING around??? well hell it sure was but that day it was overly beating~~~

Now I am once again furious with myself for not being KNOWLEDGEABLE -----I hated that man but Lou was the leader of the band --he liked him so along I trailed!!!

Thanks much!!!

Barbara

[Gloria]

I second Barbara's WOW, Granny. I also had heart palpitations while taking Fosamax, and osteoporosis med. Since I stopped using it over three months ago, I don't recall having any palpitations. I never would have associated the two without your post.

I'm happy to hear that you've been able to get down to one Entocort per day. I was so glad when I reached that milestone. It wasn't much longer after that that I was able to get off of it completely.

As Tex wrote, we are the recipients of so much valuable information from this board.

Gloria

[annie oakley]

I already have a irregular heartbeat since I was in my early twenties. I don't take Osteo meds at all thank goodness. That was an interesting post thanks for sharing.
Love Oma

[barbaranoela]

had to add---and it was the highly touted Fosamax


Barbara

[grannyh]

All of the osteo meds gave me terrific stomach pains and I decided that if my body didn't like something maybe I shouldn't take it no matter what the GYN docs said. It was suggested that I put up with the once a month discomfort to protect my bones... but I had to wonder what else might be going on and what other effect the meds might have. I had already read that the osteo meds could cause deterioration in jaw bones and thus cause all kinds of dental problems. I already had dental problems and didn't need more.
grannyh