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PATIENT COMMENT #1.
One week ago I felt great! That's before I took my first and my last Boniva "once a month pill". Stomach pain began 2 days later and then within 4 days my whole skeletal system became effected. I am 57 and feel like I am 80+. I never have reactions to drugs and had not heard anything about this drug. Only knew Sally Field said she used it. It's horrible!!!! I hurt all over, can't breathe well, and walk like someone who's had surgery. It even hurts to sleep; joints hurt and they are so tender. Thought I might have to go to the emergency room last night. My chest and back hurt so badly; felt like I was getting pneumonia. I thought this was crazy, so I got on the computer to see if I could find more info about this drug. Found this forum. Only wish I had investigated before I took that first pill.

PATIENT COMMENT #2...
Please do not take this med or let anyone you know take it. I'm not

PATIENT COMMENT #3...
I have been sent to the emergency room (my cost $2000), and a huge amount of blood tests all showing I am as healthy as I can been. I just realized tonight all the symptoms I have been having are most of the ones mentioned here. I am never going to take this medication again...... LEAVE THIS ONE ALONE.

PATIENT COMMENT #4.
I am writing this about my father a healthy, still working 73 year old up until he took his second dose of Boniva in August of 2005. He was in and out of the hospital and emergency rooms so many times I couldn't keep track. He had all kinds of tests and nothing showed up. He was on so much pain medication and nothing would help. He couldn't sleep, eat sit or lay. He was diagnosed with mutiple myloma late September. This was also the wrong diagnosis. He was then diagnosed with acute leukemia which is what he died from October 29, 2005. I don't know if the Boniva caused this or if it just brought this disease out. As I said my father was healthy and working before Boniva and he also had regular check ups. I have never seen anyone in such pain! I asked the doctors from the beginning if the Boniva could have caused this and they wouldn't even talk about it. No one can make me believe that Boniva didn't have something to do with my father's death.