I have been on Forteo daily injections for 1 year and I have experienced considerable joint pains which did not exist prior to treatment. My left hip and knee, my right knee and my hands have been getting worse each month. Has anyone else experienced similar reactions?
My doctor told me that I have Osteoporosis and wants me to try Forteo an injection for two years. Has anyone tried this drug and what were your side effects, if any. I don't want to make my stomach problems worse than there already are.
I have severe osteoporosis and am trying to take Forteo. I started out with half dose and have worked up to a full dose. The full dose 2 days in a row was disabling. My doctor suggested every other day. So I let the previous trial work its way out of my system for 5 days and tried another full dose. This is three days after the dose and I am weaker each day. I move in slow motion. My doctor is puzzled. Anyone had a similar experience?
Just was informed that I have osteoporosis. My doctor wants me to use Forteo, an injection that you use for two years.
I am worried because I stuck myself with a ball point pen it didn't really bleed but left a little red mark where I got stuck. I am afraid because a person who I KNOW has hiv (he has told me) also was using one of the pen at work to punch holes in bags were were making (working at valentines shop) and stuck himself as well.. I don't know if it was the same pen but if it were does anybody think I could be at risk..
Most facilities use a seperate pen per patent, but some DO use the same pen, and change the needles, that's not really that unheard of. This is definitely not an HIV risk, and would be a VERRRRY low risk for anything else. Minute.
With the nature of how the pen works, it's not like anything gets drawn INTO the pen that could cause a risk that way.
An HIV + person handed me a pen to sign for my credit card purchase that he rang out for me...handling the clothes, my credit card, and the pen...I have a healing cut-seems to be healed, peeling skin, rash from eczema, and cuticle hangnails. Could I be at risk if the man had popped a pimple, or had any other bodily fluid on his hands or pen?
You can purchase a small Sharps Container at Walmart or probably any pharmacy. I think Walmart charges almost $7 for it. I put my pen needles, lancets, and used strips in it.
My primary care physician offered to dispose of my Sharps container when it was full. I just took one to his office last week after using it for 5 months. I check my sugar 4 times a day so that should give you some idea how long the container will last.
I hope this helps.
As for myself, I am a patient suffering from severe osteoporosis. My doctor, realizing I cannot afford Forteo ($950 per month!), has suggested I try to find how I can take the equivalent, generic version, which is Bonista.
Please, if anyone can tell me how to get ahold of this medication, any address, emails of sellers, etc! I would be so grateful!
This discussion is related to <a href='/posts/show/1230787'>Bonista-side effects</a>.
I have been on Avonex for 6 yrs, never given myself a shot (cannot do it, hate the sight of needles) my wife is a godsend. Just got switched to the pen and the first use was spectacular! I was getting ready to ask her when she was going to start, when I opened my eyes and realized she was done! I did not feel a thing, I am actually looking forward to next week to make sure it was not a fluke.
Just a word of advise, we have figured this out through trial and error, we have come across two types of needles for the pen. One is just the needle (it screws on to the top of the pen) the other is a needle (it also screws on to the top of the pen) but it has a plastic cylinder around the needle which you need to press firmly against the skin in order for it to retract the plastic then exposed the needle. My son found this needle very uncomfortable.
Being diagnosed with diabetes doesn't necessarily mean you will be on insulin right away unless your doctor decides so. I have been diabetic for the past 14 years and was only reciently put on insulin. I'm using the Lentus Solostar pen method and I use the very smallest needles to deliver the insulin. There are times I actually don't feel the needle or other wise it's a very painless prick, really.
After the shots are taken the needles on the surface of the skin are removed, but the pen lines remain. When the fil;m is developed this till enable the physician to precisely determine the depth and position of the fragment.
It is possible to take an x-ray without doing this, but an x-ray film involves distortion, and this is the way to establish the exact depth and axis of travel.
The pins and needles and the 'stretchy feeling' you describe sounds more like circulation problems to me, but I ain't no doctor! But I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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