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Mom, Reclast and Disagreement About Reclast

Monet2008
  • By Monet2008 · Posted yesterday at 10:31 am
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 2 replies
  • My mom is scheduled for a Reclast infusion this coming Monday and I am totally against it. She is 80 years old with osteoporosis, but she still an active, healthy woman who looks great for her age in ...

Future fracture risk?

englishrose
  • By englishrose · Posted September 4, 2008
  • Discussion in Diagnosing osteoporosis · 2 replies
  • Hi, I was diagnosed recently at the age of 39 (-3.8 in the spine but only -2 in the hips). Despite seeing a specialist and being put on Alendronic Acid no-one's really explained these scores to me, and ...

HCTZ - to take or not?

Uma
  • By Uma · Posted September 4, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis/Osteopenia treatment · 3 replies
  • Hi, I hope that someone out there can give me some advice as I really don’t know what to do. I was excreting calcium in my urine so my endocrinologist reduced my calcium. However, even though I am taking ...

Thornhill Canada

sdivas

Hurting for you

JilleWhite
  • By JilleWhite · Posted September 2, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Kristasmom ~ I'm so hurting for you in the loss of your daughter. I've never lost a child, but watching my parents lose a child (my brother - a boating accident at age 20) my stomach drops and aches when ...

Evista and Arimadex

hagens39
  • By hagens39 · Posted September 1, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I have stage one breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy this summer and am completing radiation. My oncologist suggested my starting Arimadex, after my appointment with him in November. However, I recently ...

vibrating exercise machine

sport

Fiber/Whole Wheat and Calcium Absorption

DianeMill
  • By DianeMill · Posted August 31, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I have been counting my calcium mg carefully. Does calcium get blocked when eaten with whole wheat bread. If you have 2 slices of cheese (400 mg calcium) between 2 slices of whole wheat bread (80 mg calcium ...

Reaction to Actonel

NancyO
  • By NancyO · Posted August 31, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis/Osteopenia treatment · 2 replies
  • Just got diagnosed with osteoporosis. (mild) 2.5 in lumbar region. Doctor started me on Actonel 150mg monthly. I took the first dose two days ago and I feel awful. Achy all over, exhausted. A general ...

strontium ranelate v strontium citrate

Dandelion
  • By Dandelion · Posted August 29, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 9 replies
  • Does anyone know if strontium citrate is safer to take than strontium ranelate? I'm just wondering if strontium citrate ingested is more similar to the way that it is ingested naturally. I understand ...

Paying for Forteo???

Norm

Evista — is it safe?

mmtwrite
  • By mmtwrite · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 4 replies
  • Boniva was too hard on my digestive system. Now I am trying Evista. A week into treatment. Concerned about side effects and dangers ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 48 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Great book called Exercises for Osteoporosis

hofffazio
  • By hofffazio · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • This was written by Dianne Daniels, M.A. and the cover says it is a safe and effective way to build bone density and muscle strength - ISBN #978-1-57826-179-6. Here is the link to the Amazon site for ...

Assistance with the cost of Forteo

hofffazio
  • By hofffazio · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Prescription assistance and insurance issues · 3 replies
  • Has anyone been able to find a program or place where you can get financial assistance with the high cost of Forteo? I am now in the donut hole with my AARP RX plan D program. It is costing me $775.06 ...

Want to have a baby but on Actonel

Erica_Marie
  • By Erica_Marie · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Premenopausal women (ages 25-50) with osteoporosis · 1 reply
  • I am 27 Years old. I was Diagnosed with osteopenia when I was 18. I fell down some stairs and had a compression fracture at T7 in my back. I have been on Actonel since then. My bone mineral densitometry ...

Michigan

sdivas
  • By sdivas · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Organizations for information, activities and resources · 0 replies
  • Confirmed: Bones In Balance - 4 week program Classes meet twice weekly Tuesday/Thursday 9:11:30Am or 5:30-8PM Lakeland Center for Outpatient Services 3900 Hollywood Road St. Joseph, Michigan Physician ...

What a change!!

ML
  • By ML · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • It was always in the back of my mind. I had put off getting the bone density scan for about 3 years. Well, on Monday of this week, when I went in for my yearly checkup, I couldn't put it off anymore ...

2 days ago had the bone scan

ML
  • By ML · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteopenia (low bone density) · 0 replies
  • Just two days ago at my yearly checkup, they had me do a bone scan. And, they showed me, my hips have lowered. In ways it didn't surprise me, but in others it did. I would like to know if there is a list ...

problems with generic for FOSAMAX

Poet-Lady
  • By Poet-Lady · Posted August 26, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 3 replies
  • My mother has taken Fosamax for several years. She has just started to take the generic version of the drug. She says that it is causing her a lot of digestion problems. Has anyone been able to use Fosamax ...

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