zometa side effects

feeval

zometa side effects

feeval

hi I have been on zometa for 5 months. went too the dentist for a cleaning, The one side of my chin is numb now. Has anyone had this happen to them.

TenderIsOurMight

Hi Feeval,



Yes, I had this happen to me. I get IV palmidrate (sp?) every 3 months or so.



After the last cleaning, I had numbness above the mouth, where the mid lip attaches by that tissue to one's gum. It lasted 3 days or so. Of course, I immediately wondered if it was a complication of the IV bone drug and the gum/teeth cleaning etc..., but it gradually went away. Whew! I was a little panicked.



How is yours doing now? Hope better.



All the best,

Tender

Maudy

I'm suppose to start with ReClast, same as Zometa, but my doctor said there are women who have jaw necrosis caused by this medicine.  Are you aware of it?  Have you heard of this or is it another "scary" exagerated news?

Maudy

kelly99ireland

Hi   i sent in my first comment last week on Zometa + ONJ.  I found myself needed an extraction after I had been on Zometa for almost 3 yrs - also I was alarmed to find that my dentist was totally unaware of this possible A.E. of extractions & then there was the total indifference on the part of the Onc.  The decision was made to cancel Zometa for 9 mths - the extaction was done doen 14 days ago & so far everything seems OK - but lack of support from medical professional was very upsetting for me - in fact, now i've lost confidence in these people who are supposed to be experts in their field.  Any comments would be appreciated.

queleanorirk

Hi Maudy and Kelly,

I posted this in another thread, but am copying/adding to it it here also.

Please don't assume that dentists are aware of problems associated with biphosphonate treatment. I had been receiving Zometa injections since January 2003, right after my bc metastasized to my spine. In August of 2008, my dentist, who was well aware of my medical history, recommended that I have my left lower wisdom tooth extracted. I was very worried, but my dentist assured me that the risk was "vanishingly small" and that "the entire onj story had been vastly overblown by the media."

Long story short, the pain from the extraction site continued until February of 2009, along with a painful earache, at which time I went to a maxillofacial surgeon, who did oral surgery and found dead bone in my jaw at the site of the wisdom tooth extraction. (I had gone back to my dentist three times, complaining of pain in my jaw and ear. He kept assuring me that the site was healing, albeit slowly, and that the pain in my ear could not be related to the wisdom tooth removal, although I had never had an earache before in my life.) In addition to enduring excruciating pain, having to take antibiotics for sixty days, and use an oral rinse that turned my teeth the color of tobacco, my oncologist will no longer give me Zometa, on which I had been doing very well, because I have a confirmed case of onj.

Had I known what the outcome would be, I would have chosen to live with the wisdom tooth, which was merely annoying at times. I trusted my dentist instead of myself.

My ear and jaw still hurt.