Carol Bradley Bursack, an Expert Caregiver with partner site OurAlzheimer's.com and newspaper columnist for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, sent me a question relating to Fosamax, an oral bisphosphonate, and appetite issues from a reader named Floyd:
My wife is in her mid-eighties, has lung problems and is on oxygen. She was taking a medication to make her bones stronger, but she has lost her appetite and her sense of taste.
The doctors took her off of the bone medication, but she still...
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