Osteoporosis and Cancer: Your Experiences and Treatment?

Let's talk osteoporosis please. If you have it, did you have it before cancer or as a result of cancer treatment? Did you get treated? How were the treatments? Side effects? I made the very difficult decision to have a zometa infusion. Difficult because doctors don't seem to believe in risks and side effects so you don't really get to make an informed decision by talking to them. I'm pretty sure that I am the first patient my provider has done ANY followup with after the infusion. She's completely shocked by the reaction I had despite the fact that if you read the drug facts I had a fairly typical reaction. (I had fever, flu like pain that I would class in the top five most painful experiences of my life. The literature suggests this usually only happens with the first infusion. Over the following week I had lymphatic reaction in the infusion arm that I treated with lymphatic massage.) I don't think providers who can't or won't have accurate risk benefits discussions with patients are actually allowing/getting informed consent