Deterioration of the bone is usually seen in the disease called osteoporosis. Various treatments were introduced by health care providers and utilized by the affected individuals in the community. Stronger bones and lowered risk for fracture are the goals in osteoporosis treatments which includes several prescribed drugs and some exercises for bone strengthening. There are alternative drug treatments available for those who are at risk for osteoporosis but people who are already suffering from the bone degenerating disease can also utilize these alternate treatments.

 

Hormone Replacement Therapy: Estrogen

For postmenopausal women, estrogen replacement therapy is usually suggested by their personal doctors. Men rarely use this type of osteoporosis treatment since the estrogen production in men is scarce and unlike in women, the influx of estrogen does not affect much the male body compared to a female’s body. Estrogen’s mechanism of action involves bone resorption process that leads to an increase in bone density that is why the bone becomes stronger and is not easily fractured. Estrogen in combination with progesterone were seldom prescribed but doctors but when it was found that this form has the tendency to cause grave adverse effects such as ovarian and breast cancer, cerebrovascular accident (CVA which is commonly known as stroke), blood clots and myocardial infarction (MI also called heart attacks), this combined form is rarely prescribed by doctors at present.

 

SERMs ( Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators)

This treatment functions the same way as hormonal replacement therapies but the harmful side effects seen in the combined form of estrogen and progesterone are not present in this treatment. One of the usually prescribed SERM drug us Raloxifene (Evista).

 

CALCITONIN (MIACALCIN)

Some osteoporosis patients are not advised to take the conventional estrogen and bisphosphonate drug therapies. Since this is the case, a drug that acts the same way as estrogen and bisphosphonate is prescribed by doctors and that is calcitonin.

 

PARATHYROID HORMONE/PTH (FORTEO)

Bone resorption due to parathyroid hormone activation leads to an increased level of calcium in the body. It is important to note that this is a treatment used for men and women of old ages who are at risk for osteoporosis, but children with bone problems should not be given with PTH.

 

BISPHOSPHONATE

Doctors who specialize in osteoporosis cases usually prescribe thie antiresorptive drug. Alendronate Sodium (Fosamax), Ibandronate (Boniva), Risedronate (Actonel) and Zoledronic acid (Reclast) are some of the bisphosphonate drugs usually used. Bone density is increased and fracture incidence remarkably reduced, but increasing reports claim of some unusual adverse effects after prolonged use of bisphosphonate drugs, especially Fosamax use, such as sudden, low-impact femur fracture and osteonecrosis of the jaw.

 

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