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I am very fortunate to have a rheumatologist who "gets it" when it comes to Celiac.  I brought him some of the emails you all sent me regarding Fosamax, Actonel and other drugs and he said, "Well we obviously can't give you any of the oral medications.  It's too risky."

So starting this week, I'm going to take a six-week course of teraparitide which is an osteoporosis medicine you take by injection and that is apparently the only approved treatment that acts to stimulate osteoblastic bone formation.

I've read a little bit about it and there are no side effects for humans (there have been some bone cancers in rats, but that's because they give them massively greater amounts than any human would ever get).

It's a new drug so I'm wondering if anyone else out there has taken it and what your experience has been.

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I am really only interested in hearing from people who have taken teraparitide.  I have received lots of helpful advice about other things I might do to treat osteoporosis.  Please don't write me with that information.  Sorry to be so explicit, but I've been on the list long enough to know that it's sometimes helpful to be very explicit.

I will summarize.

Thank you,

Richard Paul
Washington, DC

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