As cute as Sally Fields is, she is not a doctor, she’s just an actress who is getting paid to advertise a drug. Now it appears that her radio and TV ads for Boniva, which is similar to Fosamax, may need to add a new WARNING: “Tell your doctor if your femur snaps in half while you’re just standing in the kitchen doing nothing.”
This of course would have to be added to the already worrisome list of side-effects that are recited so fast that you can’t really comprehend them anyway.
The other previously known side-effects include the following: “Don’t take Boniva if you have low blood calcium, severe kidney disease, or you can’t sit or stand for at least one hour.” (because it could wear a hole in your stomach, or cause cancer of your esophagus).
“Stop taking Boniva and tell your doctor if you have difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain, or severe or continuing heartburn, as these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems.” (like an ulcer or Osteonecrosis of the Jaw, which is the disintegration of bone in your jaw)
“If severe bone, joint and/or muscle pain develops tell your doctor.” (this could be a sign that the drug you’ve been taking for five years or more has actually stopped your bones from remodeling as they should every year and now you’ve got new bone on top of the old brittle bone that has become so heavy that it’s now about to snap in two and perhaps cause more severe problems sooner than would have resulted had you never taken the drug at all)
Watch the Boniva ad with Sally Field on the player below. Remember the age old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
The truth is that diet and exercise along with balancing your hormones is the only way to truly prevent and reverse Osteoporosis.
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