Hey, i'm a newbie here. Just diagnosed with osteoporosis in my spine. T score -2.6, Z score -3.5. 28 yr old female, have a 2 yr old and 6 month old baby. I'm having several other health problems too and trying to do testing. I had to go a naturopathic doctor to actually listen to me b/c my military doc won't listen/doesn't care. (Maybe if he had to go to Kuwait for 6 months, like my husband just did, he would be a litle more helpful.......) I had to practically FORCE him to do my DEXA. I asked him if there may be something else going on or wrong with me b/c I have this at such a young age. Obviously my body is not obsorbing calcium. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Prob hereditary...." That's it. Told me to take more calcium. Which I've already been doing my WHOLE LIFE. He won't test my estrogen, which I asked him to do, or my thryoid b/c he did it a few months ago and it was supposedly fine. So....my question is, I keep reading on this site to go to a endocrinoligst or something but I doubt he'll refer me to one, so what kind of tests do they do and how can they help me? Anybody been to one? I also have severe fatigue, my joints ache, are so stiff every morning I can barely stand, memory loss, shaky when I don't eat. Been tested for diabetes, blood sugar, always fine. So frustrated. I want to have more children, but how do I get this bone mass back if my body's not absorbing calcium?????? Anybody ever heard about primary hyperparathyroidism? Thanks for your help!!!!



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