Doctor told her that the radiation from vaginal wall cancer has damaged her bone so the fracture will not heal. She is in good health and really wants to get rid of this pain and be able to walk again with the walker.
Can you point us to the correct procedure that could help her?
Azlady
Hi azlady, so sorry to hear about your mom... Could you get a second opinion? Due to the radiation, she wouldn't be a candidate for Forteo, but I would look for the nearest University Medical Center, and see if there isn't an Orthopedist or other specialist that could offer some help. What is her doctor offering for help, nothing??? I find that unexceptable if that's the case, and would start making a lot of phone calls; pelvic fraxs are very painful.
Good luck and let us know what you find out.
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I have a 14 year old femur break that has never mended and am very interested in this study. I am encouraged with the results you have had in the curent study. Whether I am eligible for the continuing study or not, I will be discussing this with my orthopedic surgeon as another experiment to mend my bone. I do have a rod inside my femur so I am not in any pain from movement. But the xrays haven't shown any signs of calcification. I did see Dr Regis Okeefe this year at Strong Hospital. He stated he would not suggest any further surgery at this time to do bone grafting or internal electronic stimulators. I am interested in trying Forteo but would like a recommendation from you on your prognosis with my fracture and possible results.
Hi Dave: I'm sorry you are having such a hard time with this old fracture. You probably won't qualify for the current study at Strong Hospital, but that doesn't mean your Dr and you can't discuss this type of treatment to help your un-healed fracture. As you probably noticed, other Dr.s are using Forteo for other types of fractures, so if your Dr. thinks this could help that would be great.
I can't tell you what to do, since I'm not a health professional, but from reading many different articles on this new application it *might* be something to consider. Ask your Dr what he thinks, since he's at the same hospital doing this study. When all else fails like bone stimulator devices, etc, I don't see why you couldn't ask about this.
After you talk to your Dr. about this let us know because I would be very interested in the forteo application on a non-healing leg fracture. One thind that I didn't cover in this blog was the quote from the lead Dr. who said they use "careful application" of Forteo and I couldn't find an explanation of what that meant. Could it be a site-specific treatment (applied directly into the frax) or a 2 year course, or less, of fortoe. It could also mean a various course of forteo, but they don't explain this.
Best of luck to you and I hope this type of forteo application will do wonders!!
If I was in your shoes I would look into it, but I would need to know if it would work with my many spinal problems and the fact that we all react differently to all medications. Please check with your Dr.
It's definitely worth a shot to find out if it will heal a frax as old as your's.
I really hope you can get some treatment from this even if you can't get into the non-healing pelvic frax's trial.
I wish you all the luck and hope your Dr can help you tremendously!!
Keep us informed on how you do, so we know if this can work on very old frax's, which could possibly help those in a simialar situation.
Good luck and please hang in there!!1
Thanks for getting back so quickly. I hope to be talking with my doctor this week and plan to go over the Forteo study and the results with him. I don't expect any quick response from him but will keep you informed on whatever outcome follows. I am still very encouraged with this study and very happy that there is help for many of the elderly that have long healing fractures.
I haven't heard of any negative side effects of the medication but am interested in any that have been highlighted.
Thanks again,
Dave