In Belgium once you've passed stage 1 (calcitonin), you enter the next phases of treatment which if you go the route of rheumatology are bisphosphonate infusions. My case is such a bad one that at that point in time when they first saw me, they immediately hospitalized me and gave me 5 infusions over the course of a week. Normally, you only get one, spread out if there is a need for a second one. So that should tell you a bit of where I'm at.

But that didn't do much either (except help with the bone loss).

So I have had to live with it.

Best of luck to you. In Belgium it is much more of a treatment in the sense that it is practiced here for decades already and that it seems to now only be coming to the US. Odd, that.