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5 surprising things making your bones brittle (slideshow)
4. How bone drugs cause fractures
A group of medicines that were developed to curb osteoporosis are to blame for an increase in thigh bone fractures. When this happens, doctors are recommending that you stop taking the drug and maximize calcium and vitamin D. You think?
These drugs, known as bisphosphonates, are taken to increase bone mineral density. Studies have found that bisphosphonates decrease fractures in the vertebrae by more than 50 percent and fractures elsewhere by 40 percent.
Those stats are great — except for the fact that the drugs are helping cause atypical femur fractures. The fractures typically occur with little or no force or trauma, are often preceded by pain and the majority occur in patients who have used the osteoporosis drugs an average of three years.
