Fosteum FAQs
How much does Fosteum cost without insurance?
The price of Fosteum for uninsured customers was $2,800.56. With a SingleCare savings card and a prescription for Fosteum, you would have paid only $5,010.24.
How much does Fosteum cost with insurance?
Copay costs do not apply to Fosteum. It is no longer available at pharmacies.
Does Medicare cover Fosteum and how much does it cost?
Medicare prescription drug plans do not cover purchases of Fosteum, because Fosteum is no longer available at pharmacies.
Is there a generic of Fosteum?
Fosteum was a brand-name prescription medical supplement. Fosteum is no longer available in pharmacies because it has been discontinued by its manufacturer, but many of the ingredients are found separately or in combination in brand-name and generic non-prescription supplements.
What is Fosteum?
Fosteum was a prescription multivitamin formulated to help build bone density for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (bone loss). Fosteum has been discontinued by its manufacturer and is no longer available in pharmacies.
Osteoporosis is a condition where calcium is reabsorbed from the bones back into the body faster than the body makes new bone. The active ingredients in Fosteum were vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc, and genistein.
Vitamin D3 helps the body absorb calcium and phosphate, the building blocks of bone, from food and maintain the correct balance of both in the bloodstream.
Genistein stimulates cells in the bone to make bone and suppresses the bone cells that reabsorb calcium back into the bloodstream.
A zinc shortage contributes to bone loss.
What are the side effects of Fosteum?
Common side effects of Fosteum were minor and rarely experienced. These included nausea or upset stomach. Allergic reactions to Fosteum are rare and are usually reactions to the inactive ingredients.
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