Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus.
As punishment for defying the gods at Olympus, Tantalus was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.
The word "tantalize" comes from this horrific story!
Here is a picture of an item used to hold different kinds of wine and spirits. It is called a "tantalus" after the above mythological character. The decanters are placed rather loosely in this special tray, and it looks as if you could easily remove them. But when you try, it is impossible unless you have a key or know the secret method required. Otherwise, no matter how much you would like to have a sip from one of these bottles, you are out of luck. And if you try too hard to remove the bottles without knowing how, they may break!Prolia is something like this. Once you are on it you may be more or less "hooked." If your shot is delayed for any reason your bones may break as mine did. To get off of it, you may have to go to even more dangerous methods such as have been proposed to me. And even if you do get off, it may leave behind still other problems, as have been reported in links on these pages.
There are countless times over the past year when I have felt like Tantalus in the picture above, able to get around a little but winding up in breathtaking pain, still desperate to get off Prolia but afraid to incur the fractures such as I had during that medical disaster a year ago when my Prolia shot was delayed because of a medical center personnel change.
The drug Prolia that was presented to me in 2012 as having so many advantages turned out to be a cruel pharmacological joke, leaving me feeling much like poor Tantalus must have felt with relief always just beyond his grasp.
I should have known better than to ever have agreed to this drug so soon after FDA approval. This was a dreadful mistake on my part. It may be the physician's job to prescribe, but it may also be the patient's job to resist. I fell down on that job and now I am paying for it.
Like Tantalus above, I still do not know if I will reach my goal of a reasonably pain free life. But I continue to work hard in physical therapy and other modalities requiring much time, effort and considerable expense.
And I will continue to share my experience with Prolia and its painful and disabling aftermath in hopes that it might spare others what I am dealing with now!
