In my experience they are often clueless which there is no excuse for since. It is so easy to Google the manufacturer site. If I was the provider and had no treatment experience I would look it up before seeing the patient. I would be terribly embarrassed to tell my patient I didn't know anything about their drug regimen. It is inexcusable in my mind and bad medical practice. Sigh.

@A MyBCTeam Member I was getting zometa infusions every month for a solid year. I was then changed to every 3months until now. My oncologist had to take me off the infusions because I developed necrosis of my lower jawbone. Most people don't develop this because they aren't on infusions every month. My very first zometa infusion made me feverish with hard chills, body aches and pains, l felt like I had a bad case of flu. I just stayed in bed a lot, hydrated, took Tylenol for my fever and aches. After a day or two I bounced back. Your infusion is usually given in about 15 minutes. That's with a steady drip. I told my nurse about my reaction and how bad I felt. She slowed the drip down and extended the infusion time to 30 minutes. That eliminated the fever and chills, and aches. From then on it was more tolerable. The slower the drip,the less side-effects. As with most cancer treatments, there is Always the fatigue. Most all my drug protocol causes bone pain and fatigue. But it's not a bad trade-off.....I'm still alive!! Praise God and science!!🙏🏻 🩺 Having a positive attitude also helps!👍 If You continue to struggle from the infusions, please let your nurse know also. She's less likely to dismiss your symptoms. Hope this info helps. You can do this!! Have faith! You're in my prayers. 😊👍🙏🏻🤗

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Hope you feel better, be careful out and about, we still have flu cases going around- with, you guessed it- fever, chills, aches and pains!

Oncologist doesn't believe it could be from Zometa? Of course not. These wonderful drugs are never at fault, it must be us. That's gotta be the reason. I am sorry for my sarcasm Beverly but I had enough of these oncologist brushing off our opinions about side effects.
From looking at this list you had 3 of these side effects from Zometa.
Fever-chills-joint pain
I hope you are feeling better now.