Boniva

Those who watch an excessive amount of Lifetime or Food Network (which I would never ever do) probably have seen a commercial for Boniva. Boniva is an osteoporosis treatment whose claim to fame is that you only have to take it once a month, instead of once a week like all those other osteoporosis pills.

Now if you're anything like me, you're sitting there wondering who on earth is so lazy that it makes that much a difference to take a pill once a week or once a month. But it turns out that bisphosphonates like Boniva (which inhibit the resorption of bone by cells called osteoclasts, your bone's natural recyclers) also are very hard to absorb through the stomach. This means you have to take them on an empty stomach, which causes severe upset stomach, gastric reflux, and erosion of the esophagus. So APPARENTLY I should judge less, and all Boniva users are happy to only go through this once a month.