Your doctor may prescribe medications to treat osteoporosis, too.
Some of these slow down bone loss. Your doctor may call these meds bisphosphonates. They include:
Another osteoporosis med, raloxifene (Evista) works like estrogen in keeping up your bone mass.
The medications abaloparatide (Tymlos) or teriparatide (Forteo) treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and men who are at high risk for a fracture. They're a man-made form of parathyroid hormone.
Romosozumab-aqqg (Evenity) is a new medication that is als used to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women who are at high risk for a fracture. It is an antsclerostin antibody and works mainly by increasing new bone formation.
There’s also a biologic drug -- denosumab (Prolia, Xgeva) -- for osteoporosis. It turns off the process that makes the body break down bones.
- Alendronate (Bonosto, Fosamax)
- Ibandronate (Boniva)
- Risedronate (Actonel, Atelvia)
- Zoledronic acid (Reclast, Zometa)