West Virginia Lawsuits and Fosamax Femur Fractures

Modern women’s dilemma: Your doctor recommends Fosamax to prevent osteoporosis. Like a good patient, you have been taking Fosamax for many years (4 to 10 years).

In March 2010, studies became public revealing that some women who have taken Fosamax for many years are beginning to develop brittle bones.

Once a drug like Fosamax passes through the FDA approval process, you assume the product is safe to use for the purpose of which it is intended – to build bone. What do you do when it’s not?

There is cause for alarm now that there are reports of some women (enough to matter to the studies) taking Fosamax breaking femur bones. Most women say they felt thigh pain and then crack – the femur bone broke – before impact.

Is this a pattern Merck, Inc., the manufacturer of Fosamax knew about but failed to reveal in a timely matter on the Fosamax packaging?

How can this be so? Fosamax has been long advertised as the pharmaceutical drug that builds bones not breaks them.

One of the problems with Fosamax and other drugs of its genre is that clinical tests are not long term. So initially, women and their doctors don’t know what long term effects Fosamax has on patients who are taking the drug for more than four years. As a matter of fact, prolonged use of the osteoporosis drug may overly suppress bone metabolism by affecting the ability of the bone to repair micro-damage to the femur.

West Virginia residents: If you or your wife, mother, grandmother, sister, or favorite aunt has suffered a femur fracture after taking Fosamax for too many years…you or your family may be entitled to a Fosamax unsafe drug lawsuit.

Take action now and contact Wheeling Attorney Barry Hill to what your legal options are regarding an unsafe drug Fosamax femur fracture lawsuit.