Tiludronate Disodium: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Tiludronate Disodium is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Tablet
- Sold as
- Skelid
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every tiludronate disodium product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Skelid.
What people report to the FDA about tiludronate disodium
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 1 reports naming tiludronate disodium, and the FDA flagged 100% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- atypical femur fracture1 reports
- bone disorder1 reports
- fall1 reports
- groin pain1 reports
- pain in extremity1 reports
- pathological fracture1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean tiludronate disodium caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 26, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take tiludronate disodium with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run tiludronate disodium against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does tiludronate disodium come in?
Across the brands we track, tiludronate disodium is currently marketed as tablet, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic tiludronate disodium?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled tiludronate disodium product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Tiludronate Disodium: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/tiludronate-disodium
- MLA
- “Tiludronate Disodium: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/tiludronate-disodium.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for tiludronate disodium on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.