As anyone who’s suffering arthritis knows, a handful of drugs is a daily routine, most often with few results but a long list of side effects.
But how would it change your life if you could just get one dose of medicine once a year, to completely eliminate your arthritis pain? This is what Australian researchers are testing right now.
If you’re suffering arthritis, you may be taking bisphosphonates as oral pills. It’s an inexpensive drug but also pretty ineffective when taken orally and causes some severe complications.
In a six-year study now in progress in Australia, the researchers are giving patients bisphosphonates as a jab – only once a year. And that seems to be enough for at least some to keep the pain away for 12 months.
Taking a strong jab once a year also leads to far fewer complications than having to use it orally, daily.
What’s more, the bisphosphonate jabs may even protect the cartilage of the joints and prevent them from wearing out. If this works, we might be looking at the end of hip replacement surgery.
Although the results are promising, the study is still in progress. So this therapy may not be available in your area any time soon. Plus, the researchers cannot guarantee positive results, nor is there data on long-term implications of annual injections over time. But you can ask your doctor about it.
And what still stands is that using natural methods to heal the underlying cause of your disease is always better than loading yourself with medication.
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bisphosphonates have their side effects.., and if it's a daily dose, you can stop it.., if it's an annual dose/jab.., and you have a problem w/ the side effects.., you have no recourse. Im also wondering if you are confusing osteoporosis w/ osteoarthritis. usually bisphosphonates are for osteoporosis. my primary care doc and my onc doc both were, i believe appropriately, slow to advocate my taking bisphosphonates because of side effects. And i never took them.