Notes About The Poem

1) TO  Blythe Danner who appears in this commercial, shame on YOU

https://saveourbones.com/prolia-the-commercial-all-lies-and-my-parody-the-truth/

2) Here is what I was NOT being told. I was using a drug I merely thought was to strengthen my bones while on estrogen blocker. I did not even have a bone disease. This was all in the name of "prevention." Eight doctors have seen me and did not even know this simple fact (and if they knew, they did not care to tell me): that Prolia is used for bone cancer treatments and is VERY powerful stuff. Finally I found my answers to my conditions by seeing THIS from the MHRA while looking up Prolia used in chemo:

Different chemotherapy drugs have different short term and long term side effects and certainly not all chemotherapy drugs cause every side effect.   In general, chemotherapy damages cells that are dividing, so the parts of the body where normal cells divide frequently are likely to be affected by chemotherapy.  The mouth, intestines, skin, hair, bone marrow (the spongy material that fills your bones and produces new blood cells) are commonly affected by chemotherapy.  Hair is growing all the time. The skin is constantly renewing itself. So are the lining of the mouth and digestive system.  To do this, the cells of all these body tissues must constantly divide to produce a steady supply of new cells.  And when cells are dividing, chemotherapy drugs can attack them.

How does chemotherapy affect the mouth?
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancer. These drugs kill cancer cells, but they may also harm normal cells, including cells in the mouth. Side effects include problems with your teeth and gums; the soft, moist lining of your mouth; and the glands that make saliva (spit).

It's important to know that side effects in the mouth can be serious.

  • The side effects can hurt and make it hard to eat, talk, and swallow

  • You are more likely to get an infection, which can be dangerous when you are receiving cancer treatment

  • If the side effects are bad, you may not be able to keep up with your cancer treatment. Your doctor may need to cut back on your cancer treatment or may even stop it.

If the side effects are bad, you may not be able to keep up with your cancer treatmen (GEEZ, I was not even being treated for cancer!)3.

You can find true tales all over the internet. Anyone interested in a few Prolia horror

stories? https://healthunlocked.com/bonehealth/posts/138323479/prolia-adverse-side-effects

 

 

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A Prolia Rant

My doctors, by omission, lied to me.
They had me take a drug I didn’t need.
It does no good; that drug’s a travesty.

Injections twice a year I’d get for free,
so to their “sage” advice I then agreed.
My doctors, by omission, lied to me.

Rare side effects I never could foresee,
but they’re online for anyone to read.
It does no good; that drug’s a travesty.

I trusted men because of their degree.
They’re full of crap. How could I ever heed
those men who by omission lied to me?

Their drug is used in chemotherapy!
That fact withheld from me was their dark deed.
It does no good and is a travesty!

To make bones strong?? I rant like a banshee
from Prolia’s effects – that demon seed!
My doctors, by omission, lied to me.
It does no good and is a travesty.

Dec. 23, 2018 for the Let 'Er Rip #2 Poetry Contest of John Lawless

If you or any woman you know is considering this drug for her bones, please read the parody of the Prolia commercial I put a link to above my poem. If only I had seen that parody before two years ago!! The greedy company Amgen is doing much more harm than good and the FDA just lets this "wonder drug" on through the gate. Denser bones, yes, but stronger no. A class action law suit has been won by people getting fractures months after going off Prolia because it makes holes in your bones and once you go off, you could get this horrible "rebound effect"!
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Allison Avatar
December 29, 2018 at 3:58 PM
Hope your rant proves as a warning to other's Andrea and there are so many other drugs that have negative side effects but this gets brushed under the carpet, medicine certainly is big bucks for these companies, yet its the patients that pay the highest price:-(:-( hugs jan xx
Dietrich Avatar
December 29, 2018 at 7:56 PM
If I can save at least one other woman, I will have done my job here. My own family doctor I just saw yesterday about a totally different matter did not even care to know this information I gave him. In fact he said something like this: "you just react differently to things than most people." He is as careless as my oncologist. Uggg they all make me sick. They are only trained to prescribe prescribe prescribe, without getting to the core of our problems or thinking up numerous options for people!! One doc told me that in all their years of education, hardly any of it is spent on learning how food affects our bodies.
Devonshire Avatar
December 26, 2018 at 1:31 PM
Andrea, I'm so sorry you had to go through this. When there are this many problems with a medication, it should be taken off the market at least until the FDA has a chance to investigate! Sending healing wishes your way, Carolyn
Dietrich Avatar
December 26, 2018 at 5:20 PM
they really do need to remove it. EIther that, or not allow it for moderate things for which natural methods of getting calcium are much healthier. Its risks are now being spread online because people have now been doing it long enough to see its rebound effects of fractures when they go off it. It was not tested thoroughy before put on the market.
Horsman Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:49 PM
Wow, Andrea, i've been through all of this myself,,although 30 years ago, but the nightmare is still with me,,,,Not only poetry but a statement, which needs to be seen......But Andrea, i am also here you wish and your family a wonderful christmas, and new year..You are my first ever american friend, and hope you'll continue to be ....
Dietrich Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:54 PM
TEll me your story in a soupmail if you would like, Harry, I'd love to hear your nightmare story. Someone should write a book about them all!! That was so sweet of you to say, that I am your first ever American friend!! Merry Xmas to you.
Rodrigues Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 10:39 AM
Wow! So awful! Not as devastating but after having gallbladder surgery, they gave me percoset and because they figured I speak Spanish (I don’t) because of my last name, they gave me the sheet in Spanish. So I started hallucinating, having horror level nightmares. Nuts! Say NO to drugs. :0 Great work here, Andrea!
Dietrich Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:53 PM
They are all nutsos!!! Sorry that happened to you.
Mandani Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 9:19 AM
You know, I have a simple and best solution: Don't go to a doctor! I have not been to one so far--69 years. We have to die any way, then why make these crooks richer. An aspirin here, a tylenol there; and that's it to keep me going. I wish the best of health for you, Andrea.
Devonshire Avatar
December 26, 2018 at 1:30 PM
Sometimes doctor end up hurting us more than helping us.
Dietrich Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:48 PM
abdul, I was healthy as could be till breast cancer got me two years ago. I turned down chemo(suggested to me for "prevention" sake) and did only the radiation(which was bad enough), but they managed to get chemo on me anyway, by telling me I needed Prolila afterward to keep my bones strong while blocking my estrogen(stuff you learn about only by being a woman with breast cancer). They screwed me in the long run. Unfortunately one has to see a doctor when one gets cancer. I see a natural doctor now but insurance is not crazy about natural doctors.
Pandit Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 7:07 AM
Didn't know about this drug. This is good information for many. Thanks for sharing Andrea. You have a right to be upset about the doctors and the drug industry in general.
Dietrich Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:52 PM
Yes, I hope someone will see it who will really need to know about this dangerous drug.
Y. Avatar
December 24, 2018 at 3:42 AM
Hi Andrea, This is so sad. We go to doctors to make us well but bottom line it's all about the dollar. As long as the big machine is making money( through various drugs) they will omit the truth.So sorry you were not giving the correct info on what you took. I am happy you found out about the dangerous side affects. Thanks the foot notes- Very informative. Good luck in the contest-Alexis
Cunningham Avatar
December 23, 2018 at 11:28 PM
That is an absolute disgrace Andrea, docs prescribing drugs we all know get big fat checks from drug companies, there is no money to be made in curing a condition but you've got an everlasting cash cow by treating it. I hope you aren't suffering any long term effects from it. As you say you put your whole trust in them, all they see are dollar or pound signs. Tom.
Dietrich Avatar
December 23, 2018 at 11:34 PM
I never seem to be able to find good doctors, Tom. My side effects are subsiding now so I am feeling hopeful. Thanks, you absolutely understand. They are trying to make us sicker so they can get more money. That is why the injections are free to women like me. We are vulnerable and they are trying to suck us in.
Krutsinger Avatar
December 23, 2018 at 9:25 PM
I am so sorry this has happened, but I appreciate you letting us all know because that is the best gift - to save your friends from believing in the same horse pills that took you down. Thank you for the warning, Andrea. I am thinking maybe GOOGLE is the best doctor. They told me my culture came back negative and they did not take one. Merry Christmas. Great write! and Grate Right also.
Dietrich Avatar
December 23, 2018 at 9:29 PM
thanks, Caren, I have learned a lot since traveling down the rabbit hole about three years ago. Before this Prolia crap too. My 4 sisters hopefully will learn from me if they ever face similar health issues that run in our family.
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