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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy samon Choti after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
For those of you who follow us personally, the after
the show podcast is a perfect place to share really
personal things like you, guys, share about your not drinking
anymore and what that's been like for you in your
life and health diagnosis and things like that. Well, I
gave Murphy a little tiny update this weekend, since you're
(00:25):
my husband, on my building bone back update. Being diagnosed
with osteo osteoporosis and osteopenia a couple of years ago.
I'm starting my new treatment this week.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay. I did three years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Three rounds of something called reclassed to build backbone, and
it did. It was there was some improvement, just not
as much as they wanted to see. In fact, you
know that my doctor did explain that I will have
to be treated for this all of my life, for
the rest of my life, rather to build backbone. Right, okay,
and so I am starting And anyway, I did the
(01:02):
full appointment with my doctor recently. We shared a whole
podcast on it and explained what he recommended, and as
soon as he said he could get insurance to improve
to approve it, we would go forward. With a new
thing where I'd be getting a monthly injection. Well, it
went through, and so I'm getting my first injection this
week on Wednesday. But every time I go a couple
(01:24):
of things I've learned since being told that and scheduling
the appointment. Every time I go for this injection, I
go to the infusion center for it, I have to
do blood work first, and I dug into why they're
checking my calcium level, Murphy, that's what you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Mean because of what my calcium has.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
To be up where it's supposed to be for them
to give me this medicine. Otherwise, No, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Called I guess it would be calcium depleting then if
you have two little calcium shows.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So I have a friend who works in this industry.
She works in pharmaceutical cells, but all she focuses on
and spends all of her time on are osteoporosis treatments,
and so she knows all about it. And I just
mentioned to her, Hey, hey, stranger, I haven't seen you
in a while. I'm starting my Invinity injections this week.
(02:17):
That's what it's called. The drug is called Evinity. I'm
done with my three rounds of reclassed. What do you
think of Avinity? I know I was if you know,
what if she hated it, what if she had seen
people have bad side effects from it? But I had
to ask her because she has been like my friend
throughout this. When I was first diagnosed, she was the
one who reached out to me and said, I know
we haven't spoken in years, but don't sit on this.
(02:38):
You need to have this treated. She was the first
person that really lit a fire under me thinking. She
made me realize I needed treatment instead of just taking
more calcium, you know what I mean. And so she
said regarding Avinity, in my opinion, it's the best ostioporosis
product on the market. I'm so excited to hear their
(02:59):
movie you to that. So the word is I can
only have it for a year, so you know twelve
times I will get that again because it is medicine
that's so strong. You can't constantly constantly do that to
your bone in building your bone back, you mess with
the natural order of things. So I'll have to do
something else after a year. And I asked her, why
(03:25):
do you say this, Why do you think it's the
number one or the best on the market? She said,
it's the only product that is both an anabolic and
an anti resorptive. It's the only one with the dual
mechanism of action.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I had to look that up as well. Anti resorptive.
I look that up. They decrease bone resorption, correcting the
imbalance where bone breakdown exceeds formation.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So it sounds like we're in science class.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So that basically means the bone can seems itself. It's
yes it instead of it consuming itself. It grows faster
than the other way around. So that makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And she even said that she was one of the
first ones and then had another doctor say that you
have to treat it because otherwise your bone is going
to continue to eat itself.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So this is a really good medicine. Every time I
go blood work, first they check the calcium levels and
then I go get not one, but two injections once
a month. It's two injections every time. I don't know where,
I don't know anything. I just know my first set
of them comes up this week.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Murphy.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It's not going to be like an infusion where you
have to sit for a few hours right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Injection, just injection. Like I said, I don't know where
in the body arms. I haven't dugged into all of
that yet, So I just hope that I can start
it because I'm right now, I'm just floundering. Have not
had any treatment, you know, and that makes me a
little worried.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, you are taking calcium, you did. It's the effects
of the reclassed outlast the time period that you're talking about,
So it's not like you've done nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It feels like I'm doing that me. It feels like that.
But I just wanted to give everybody that update. If
you're told, you know, weight and we're going to put
you on this, that's what happens, you know. And if
if the insurance would not have said, you know, yes
to this one, he would have my doctor would have
recommended something else. But I was glad to hear that
this one is you know positive.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it gives you more than just having to you know,
take extra calcium.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Oh no, I have to treat this. I can't just
do that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Is this going to improve anything? Like the reclass did
improve slightly, but that's oh yeah, I prove Or is
this just going to stop it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, it's supposed to improve, okay, but you have to
manage things their side effects. The most common side effects
with this, and it could happen like right after, is
just joint pain and headache.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Though.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's not bad, and that doesn't mean that will happen
to me at all.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, everything has side effects, and the stronger it is,
the more intense the side effects are going to be.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I've just am learning about all this stuff that I'm
going to do, you know, this week, which is why
I seem a little iffy on it because I don't
really know it all yet about it, So.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know, going away from the medical part of it,
and the fact that you've got somebody who's an advocate
who knows what's going on is really is really everything.
And I mean, I know you can google and find things,
but having somebody that actually does understand it, you can
steer you and suggest what you need to talk to
your doctor about it and all that. That's all difference
(06:36):
maker stuff, right, you know, And that's the total opposite
of waiting around. So that's good.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Looks.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
She's the one that when she heard that I was
diagnosed with this, she took me and we went to coffee,
and she says, don't sit on this. Don't just start
taking caltrate, go get treatment. You need treatment, especially at
your age being diagnosed with this, because your bone is
going to continue to deteriorate if you don't stop it.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And I'm high risk for fracture.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Even now, even with the bone being built back after
the reclass I'm still considered a high risk for fracture.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, that's why I didn't want you. The other day,
Jody wanted me to pop her back for It's like,
I'm not going to pop your back. I'm not gonna
squeeze you so hard that you know. It's like you're
the person who's taking all this stuff and you want
me to pop your back.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, you know when somebody hugs you really tight and
they pop your back, it feels really good.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It does, but you've got porous bones in parts of
your spine. I'm not gonna squeeze your back. That's to me,
that's a quick way to fracture that day.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
My back all the time. You know that. Right in
yoga at the.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
End, It's really surprising to me. You are you're the
one living with the osteoporosis, and so that doesn't scare
you at all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, how I can't break a bone like that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Are you that's rolling on a foam roller and it
feels fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's it feels good on your bone, it feels good
on your it feels good on your muscles. I would ask, seriously, Okay,
I'm shocked. I'm really because it's serious as the osteo
is and you're you know, for.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
That's deep the bone.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I can't reach that by rolling on a phone roller
and getting that tension.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You know, But it's it's not it's not about touching
the bone. It's the action of all that compressions.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Ask, but it's going to be hard for me to
give that up. That's the best part of the workout
of them when you roll on the phone roller and
you go, you hear it, go crack, crack.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Cr Does a doctor you do yoga?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, and it's very.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well that that encourage Yeah, Well you should be doing
anything that strengthen strengthens the muscles around the bone. I'm
just saying anything that really compresses or you know, if
you're to risk.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Balls that it's not what's being squeezed what's the balls impact.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I mean, and so if somebody squeezes you or
you you.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Know, okay, whatever, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Not going to Just for the record, I'm not going
to squeeze you that hard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I know, Okay. I as you demonstrated, after.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
These twelve injections are over after a year, did they
bring you back just like they did after the reclass And.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's like where I think, there's another bone scan a
year from now, and then what's the next course of treatment.
It's almost like these these medicines are so great and
they're so targeted and they're so strong. They you can't
just stay on one because of the side effects and
the same side of some of the same side effects,
(09:24):
some of the same worries like jawbone problems, dental problems.
You know, with this one, there's possible kidney issues. So
they you know, you got to just continue to be
as healthy as you can be. You have to continue
to take care of everything so that the medicine doesn't
wreck you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, you know, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Probably healthier than I ever have been in my whole
life while facing this.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, you are definitely healthier. I mean, your core strength
is fantastic. About that, Well, you do yoga, of course
your core strength is good.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well my leg and my leg and back strength is good.
Don't know about my core. That's the hardest part of
yoga to me, the core stuff, But I work on it.
So anyway, that's the update. I start injections this week.
It's called eventy. Event E is the name.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And what's the first thing you're going to mention to
the doctor next time you see.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy samon Choti after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
For those of you who follow us personally, the after
the show podcast is a perfect place to share really
personal things like you, guys, share about your not drinking
anymore and what that's been like for you in your
life and health diagnosis and things like that. Well, I
gave Murphy a little tiny update this weekend, since you're
(00:25):
my husband, on my building bone back update. Being diagnosed
with osteo osteoporosis and osteopenia a couple of years ago.
I'm starting my new treatment this week.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay. I did three years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Three rounds of something called reclassed to build backbone, and
it did. It was there was some improvement, just not
as much as they wanted to see. In fact, you
know that my doctor did explain that I will have
to be treated for this all of my life, for
the rest of my life, rather to build backbone. Right, okay,
and so I am starting And anyway, I did the
(01:02):
full appointment with my doctor recently. We shared a whole
podcast on it and explained what he recommended, and as
soon as he said he could get insurance to improve
to approve it, we would go forward. With a new
thing where I'd be getting a monthly injection. Well, it
went through, and so I'm getting my first injection this
week on Wednesday. But every time I go a couple
(01:24):
of things I've learned since being told that and scheduling
the appointment. Every time I go for this injection, I
go to the infusion center for it, I have to
do blood work first, and I dug into why they're
checking my calcium level, Murphy, that's what you.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Mean because of what my calcium has.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
To be up where it's supposed to be for them
to give me this medicine. Otherwise, No, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Called I guess it would be calcium depleting then if
you have two little calcium shows.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So I have a friend who works in this industry.
She works in pharmaceutical cells, but all she focuses on
and spends all of her time on are osteoporosis treatments,
and so she knows all about it. And I just
mentioned to her, Hey, hey, stranger, I haven't seen you
in a while. I'm starting my Invinity injections this week.
(02:17):
That's what it's called. The drug is called Evinity. I'm
done with my three rounds of reclassed. What do you
think of Avinity? I know I was if you know,
what if she hated it, what if she had seen
people have bad side effects from it? But I had
to ask her because she has been like my friend
throughout this. When I was first diagnosed, she was the
one who reached out to me and said, I know
we haven't spoken in years, but don't sit on this.
(02:38):
You need to have this treated. She was the first
person that really lit a fire under me thinking. She
made me realize I needed treatment instead of just taking
more calcium, you know what I mean. And so she
said regarding Avinity, in my opinion, it's the best ostioporosis
product on the market. I'm so excited to hear their
(02:59):
movie you to that. So the word is I can
only have it for a year, so you know twelve
times I will get that again because it is medicine
that's so strong. You can't constantly constantly do that to
your bone in building your bone back, you mess with
the natural order of things. So I'll have to do
something else after a year. And I asked her, why
(03:25):
do you say this, Why do you think it's the
number one or the best on the market? She said,
it's the only product that is both an anabolic and
an anti resorptive. It's the only one with the dual
mechanism of action.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I had to look that up as well. Anti resorptive.
I look that up. They decrease bone resorption, correcting the
imbalance where bone breakdown exceeds formation.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So it sounds like we're in science class.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So that basically means the bone can seems itself. It's
yes it instead of it consuming itself. It grows faster
than the other way around. So that makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And she even said that she was one of the
first ones and then had another doctor say that you
have to treat it because otherwise your bone is going
to continue to eat itself.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So this is a really good medicine. Every time I
go blood work, first they check the calcium levels and
then I go get not one, but two injections once
a month. It's two injections every time. I don't know where,
I don't know anything. I just know my first set
of them comes up this week.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Murphy.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It's not going to be like an infusion where you
have to sit for a few hours right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Injection, just injection. Like I said, I don't know where
in the body arms. I haven't dugged into all of
that yet, So I just hope that I can start
it because I'm right now, I'm just floundering. Have not
had any treatment, you know, and that makes me a
little worried.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, you are taking calcium, you did. It's the effects
of the reclassed outlast the time period that you're talking about,
So it's not like you've done nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It feels like I'm doing that me. It feels like that.
But I just wanted to give everybody that update. If
you're told, you know, weight and we're going to put
you on this, that's what happens, you know. And if
if the insurance would not have said, you know, yes
to this one, he would have my doctor would have
recommended something else. But I was glad to hear that
this one is you know positive.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it gives you more than just having to you know,
take extra calcium.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Oh no, I have to treat this. I can't just
do that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Is this going to improve anything? Like the reclass did
improve slightly, but that's oh yeah, I prove Or is
this just going to stop it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, it's supposed to improve, okay, but you have to
manage things their side effects. The most common side effects
with this, and it could happen like right after, is
just joint pain and headache.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Though.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's not bad, and that doesn't mean that will happen
to me at all.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, everything has side effects, and the stronger it is,
the more intense the side effects are going to be.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I've just am learning about all this stuff that I'm
going to do, you know, this week, which is why
I seem a little iffy on it because I don't
really know it all yet about it, So.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know, going away from the medical part of it,
and the fact that you've got somebody who's an advocate
who knows what's going on is really is really everything.
And I mean, I know you can google and find things,
but having somebody that actually does understand it, you can
steer you and suggest what you need to talk to
your doctor about it and all that. That's all difference
(06:36):
maker stuff, right, you know, And that's the total opposite
of waiting around. So that's good.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Looks.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
She's the one that when she heard that I was
diagnosed with this, she took me and we went to coffee,
and she says, don't sit on this. Don't just start
taking caltrate, go get treatment. You need treatment, especially at
your age being diagnosed with this, because your bone is
going to continue to deteriorate if you don't stop it.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And I'm high risk for fracture.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Even now, even with the bone being built back after
the reclass I'm still considered a high risk for fracture.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, that's why I didn't want you. The other day,
Jody wanted me to pop her back for It's like,
I'm not going to pop your back. I'm not gonna
squeeze you so hard that you know. It's like you're
the person who's taking all this stuff and you want
me to pop your back.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, you know when somebody hugs you really tight and
they pop your back, it feels really good.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It does, but you've got porous bones in parts of
your spine. I'm not gonna squeeze your back. That's to me,
that's a quick way to fracture that day.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
My back all the time. You know that. Right in
yoga at the.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
End, It's really surprising to me. You are you're the
one living with the osteoporosis, and so that doesn't scare
you at all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, how I can't break a bone like that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Are you that's rolling on a foam roller and it
feels fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's it feels good on your bone, it feels good
on your it feels good on your muscles. I would ask, seriously, Okay,
I'm shocked. I'm really because it's serious as the osteo
is and you're you know, for.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
That's deep the bone.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I can't reach that by rolling on a phone roller
and getting that tension.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You know, But it's it's not it's not about touching
the bone. It's the action of all that compressions.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Ask, but it's going to be hard for me to
give that up. That's the best part of the workout
of them when you roll on the phone roller and
you go, you hear it, go crack, crack.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Cr Does a doctor you do yoga?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, and it's very.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well that that encourage Yeah, Well you should be doing
anything that strengthen strengthens the muscles around the bone. I'm
just saying anything that really compresses or you know, if
you're to risk.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Balls that it's not what's being squeezed what's the balls impact.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I mean, and so if somebody squeezes you or
you you.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Know, okay, whatever, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Not going to Just for the record, I'm not going
to squeeze you that hard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I know, Okay. I as you demonstrated, after.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
These twelve injections are over after a year, did they
bring you back just like they did after the reclass And.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's like where I think, there's another bone scan a
year from now, and then what's the next course of treatment.
It's almost like these these medicines are so great and
they're so targeted and they're so strong. They you can't
just stay on one because of the side effects and
the same side of some of the same side effects,
(09:24):
some of the same worries like jawbone problems, dental problems.
You know, with this one, there's possible kidney issues. So
they you know, you got to just continue to be
as healthy as you can be. You have to continue
to take care of everything so that the medicine doesn't
wreck you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, you know, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Probably healthier than I ever have been in my whole
life while facing this.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, you are definitely healthier. I mean, your core strength
is fantastic. About that, Well, you do yoga, of course
your core strength is good.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well my leg and my leg and back strength is good.
Don't know about my core. That's the hardest part of
yoga to me, the core stuff, But I work on it.
So anyway, that's the update. I start injections this week.
It's called eventy. Event E is the name.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And what's the first thing you're going to mention to
the doctor next time you see.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
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