New warnings about the dangers of leg fracture while using drugs to prevent osteoporosis

rheumatologist Dr. Robert Bunnin, of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC:

"The drugs are supposed to work by shutting down the cells that re-absorb the bone, the osteoclasts. The ones that make the bone, the osteoblasts, are supposed to keep working. However in biopsies of patients who have had the fracture, it shows that both are shut down."

Image left: Double the bone with double the risk of fracture

Bunning calls it "frozen bone," which is brittle and more susceptible to these types of clean fractures. He says in the U.S. There have been 50 to 60 reported cases of this.

"Even thought it’s rare, I think we’re going to be seeing quite a few more cases."

Dr. Bunning says that in all of the reported cases, most patients had been taking Fosamax or another type of bisphosphonate for more than 5 years.

Fosamax Doubles the Risk of Subtrochanteric Fracture

"A 65-year woman visiting Europe stepped off the bottom step of a van and collapsed. An x-ray revealed a nontraumatic fracture of her left femur. She had been experiencing a dull ache in her left femur for some months.

The patient underwent placement of an intramedullary rod. One year later she developed a dull ache in her right femur. A bone scan showed a stress fracture in the right femur. A bone specialist recommended prophylactic rodding of the right femur, which was done.

The patient had been on alendronate for 9 years."

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Gary Moller comments:
If these drugs are so damn awful, then why on Earth do doctors keep prescribing these to men and women as young as in their 30's, why do Health Department officials keep taxpayer funding of them and why do drugs companies keep manufacturing them? This has to stop now!

(If you are not convinced that the prescribing of these drugs is scandalous and causing irreparable harm to countless thousands of unsuspecting people, then you have some reading to do! Read here.)

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