I am due to start AI with zolondronic acid infusion. Two friends have had AIs and both have come off them due to side effects. The website has the side effects listed but as occurring to a very small percentage. I am fit, I love hiking, I play the piano and other musical instruments andthis is a very important part of my life. Joint main and hand stiffness seem to be problems with carpal tunnel, clicks thumb, sore hands and feet and cognitive impairment. 

Has anybody out there taken AIs and not suffered these dreadful quality of life inhibiting side effects? If you have expierienced them, do you recover when you come off the drugs?

i am seriously considering declining both as I have read research that states that AIs do improve disease free survival, but (possibly due to the side effects) have no effect on overall survival.