Alendronic Acid taken with bottled mineral water by mistake. Should I be worried? Should I take it again tomorrow with tap water? Any advice

[PipandDots]

I realised too late and am now concerned about it. I’m currently on holiday and always drink bottled water while away but I remembered that the instructions say it must be tap water. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

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If you are suggesting taking an extra tablet. I’d say no, leave it until its due -and depending on where you are can you boil the tap water?

[PipandDots in reply to DorsetLady]

good idea thank you

[Pippah45 in reply to PipandDots]

I don't take AA but it's the bubbles in some water that destroys some things - I prefer still anyway. Sadly a lot of tap water in the UK tastes horrible.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

I wouldn't worry about it, I wouldn't take another dose either. It will depend on the bottled water as well. All it will have done is possibly lower the effect this week - but the effect is ongoing and persists for some months even after stopping the AA altogether.

Where are you? I gave up bottled water here years ago!

[PipandDots in reply to PMRpro]

thanks for responding. We’re in Cornwall and the tap water tastes awful! The bottled water is Highland Spring (still)

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to PipandDots]

Judging by my reading, there are fewer minerals in Highland Spring than some tap water - it isn't a MINERAL water, it is a spring water and classed as lightly mineralised..

What you shouldn't be using to wash down your AA is Evian or Perrier at double the dried solids, and definitely not San Pellegrino, Badoit or Gerolsteiner which have 10x the dried solids of Highland Spring! You can taste them! Not sure how anyone could use them for everyday drinking to be honest having drunk all of them in my time.

[PipandDots in reply to PMRpro]

thanks so much for the useful information

[Mayadill in reply to PMRpro]

Evian is parfait but what was a small life-changer for me was Phillips Go Zero It's a water bottle with a built-in filter. Not been able to manage the table-top filters for years, too heavy to fill, to pour,. You just fill it from the tap and glug. If you need a large mouthful for large tablets, you might find it's not quite enough, but it's fine for Pred! It's even pretty - I have one in a delicate pale pink and one in a delightful pale green.

[Stills in reply to Mayadill]

that sounds good, and eco friendly, I shall look for one

[Mayadill in reply to Stills]

On Amazon. The eco-friendly is part of it, she said virtuously, or maybe just saving myself hassle. Everything's delivered which would mean packs of 4 x 2 l or 6 x 1.5 litre, which I can't readily lift, so the bottles were sports caps, 750 ml, which is perfect for me, except - turn my back for a second as I am known to do on housework or at any rate housework that won't start to pong and my bedroom's full of empty bottles.

By the way, bonus, completely leak-proof, great for me just inside because anything tall and narrow put on the rollator tends to fall off, so I can lie them flat.

water bottles lying flat

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Mayadill]

Does your rollator not have a basket? That was the best thing about OH's, I didn't have to carry the milk home!

[Mayadill in reply to PMRpro]

Soft bag, fine for a extra pint from the Co-op but just as perilous with any non-leak-proof container around the home! The doorways have those thingies the name of which escapes me, metal strips holding down the carpet, which might even be called carpet strips. From the point of view of the rollator they're a bump, potentially requiring fluid to be transported with the care you might otherwise give to a Faberge egg.

[herdysheep in reply to Mayadill]

😂

[Stills in reply to PMRpro]

or the rosė

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Stills]

No - need the car for that as that supermarket is in two and I buy it in pairs - it's a BOGOF ...

[Stills in reply to PMRpro]

love a bargain

[Stills in reply to Mayadill]

thank you

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to PipandDots]

Probably because it’s different to what you’re used to where you live. Cornwall’s water is soft, whereas as our from Dorset eastwards is harder - comes through chalk…

In the UK, water tends to be hardest in the South East and London, the Midlands and eastern Wales. As you move further north into northern England and Scotland, the water becomes much softer. The South West of England, western Wales and Northern Ireland also tend to have very soft water.

[PipandDots in reply to DorsetLady]

such a wealth of knowledge. Good to know

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to PipandDots]

Moved about a bit!

[prunus in reply to DorsetLady]

I could not agree more. I'm West London and the chalk in the water means the water in the bowl is white not clear. When we go to Wells in Somerset I really enjoy the water there.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to prunus]

Strange isn't it - as a child the water in the house came from an aquifer under our fields, storage in a limestone undercround cave made for VERY hard water, dreadful for the kettle and having a bath but lovely to drink. My great aunts down the road had the the pipeline from central Wales to Birmingham running through their land and their water supply was from that - it was yellow in the bath, soap bubbles by the ton but it made an AWFUL cup of tea!!!

[Viveka in reply to PMRpro]

Our water company changed our supplier to somewhere in Wiltshire where it came through chalk. It was horrible, furred up our kettle, left scum on the cups that the dish washer couldn't budge. We had to buy a filter. Thankfully it was only temporary and they changed it back to our lovely Somerset water which does not need a filter.

[HeronNS]

As AA is a longlasting medication which stays permanently in your body I wouldn't worry at all about a potentially slightly less effective absorption this one time. It's not like some meds which must be taken at strictly regulated intervals. Enjoy your holiday!

[PipandDots in reply to HeronNS]

thanks so much xx

[discoballs]

Our water always goes through a Brita device before we drink it. The Brita device is always in the fridge and we fill Systema bottles up with it. It tastes really refreshing I drink about 3 litres of lovely water every day.

[Broseley]

Tap water has minerals in it too. I really wouldn't worry. When I first started on AA I drank a mug of coffee before taking it without thinking. No ill effects.

[Deyazlex]

when first taking AA, and not having read the leaflet , I took it with my morning cuppa!! Was not told to only take with water, just not to be lying down. Five years later and after first DEXA scan, doctor took me off it. (Happy now I don’t have the wait to eat after taking it).