Your pain and loss speak loudly and that is perfectly fine and healthy I think! Your wife is so young to go through such an "old-age" trauma. I, too, was prescribed Fosamax as a "preventive" drug by a young GP. I know he was well intentioned, as most of the doctors are, as a matter of fact this doctor would not want anything bad to happen to us, he graduated from high school with one of our sons!
However, I have learned as the years have passed, that the doctors are vulnerable as well and they do receive "perks" for prescribing these drugs--even if it is only freebie office supplies. Nonetheless, your point of the drug company's responsibility does not fall on deaf ears!! Even today, as more and more women and men are coming forward with their stories, they deny a connection, even to the point of pushing a "survey," which they paid for through individual contributions to the authors. I am still too "young" to remember the details of the radio DJ scandal in the 1950s, when the DJ received "Payolla" to play certain records. If such things were a crime 60 years ago, aren't they a crime today??
I have days when I am so depressed and tired of the pain and the drugs for pain, and the slow rehabilitation time, and the complications, but most importantly, I only took Fosamax to prevent this from happening!!! At his point in time I can not play outside with my grandkids--the beats of my heart--or do the things that nourish me physically and mentally, such as gardening and being active outdoors. I have been robbed of the life I planned for and that hurts. Yes, I may improve enough eventually to play with my grandkids again, but they are growing up and not waiting for me to get better in the meantime.
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Your pain and loss speak loudly and that is perfectly fine and healthy I think! Your wife is so young to go through such an "old-age" trauma. I, too, was prescribed Fosamax as a "preventive" drug by a young GP. I know he was well intentioned, as most of the doctors are, as a matter of fact this doctor would not want anything bad to happen to us, he graduated from high school with one of our sons!
However, I have learned as the years have passed, that the doctors are vulnerable as well and they do receive "perks" for prescribing these drugs--even if it is only freebie office supplies. Nonetheless, your point of the drug company's responsibility does not fall on deaf ears!! Even today, as more and more women and men are coming forward with their stories, they deny a connection, even to the point of pushing a "survey," which they paid for through individual contributions to the authors. I am still too "young" to remember the details of the radio DJ scandal in the 1950s, when the DJ received "Payolla" to play certain records. If such things were a crime 60 years ago, aren't they a crime today??
I have days when I am so depressed and tired of the pain and the drugs for pain, and the slow rehabilitation time, and the complications, but most importantly, I only took Fosamax to prevent this from happening!!! At his point in time I can not play outside with my grandkids--the beats of my heart--or do the things that nourish me physically and mentally, such as gardening and being active outdoors. I have been robbed of the life I planned for and that hurts. Yes, I may improve enough eventually to play with my grandkids again, but they are growing up and not waiting for me to get better in the meantime.
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