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Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
Eighty percent of people who have osteoporosis are women. A woman's risk of osteoporosis is equal to her combined risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancer. Half of all women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis.
Nonunion fractures?
- By kropos · New reply June 22, 2009
- 2 replies
- I've had a nonunion femur fracture for a year. I have rheumatoid arthritis and been on prednisone for many years. The osteoporosis is most likely from this. Have had a bone graft a month ago and an implanted ...
Bioidentical hormones
- By VictoriaLynn · New reply June 12, 2009
- 4 replies
- I am 61... I was on Fosamax for over 8 years...no growth but things stayed sort of the same. Then I had a couple of fractures and the DR suggest Forteo. I did it for 18 months and had a loss of 2 ...
Quest and Lab Corp. - different Vit. D25 results to this very day
- By Jacqueline · New reply June 3, 2009
- 14 replies
- I am told that Quest stopped giving incorrect reports on Vitamin D a year ago. Yet a month ago, I had Quest test my Vitamin D-25, and they reported 47. My endocrinologist said, "Great." A few weeks later ...
A Step Back in Time?
- By livnwel · New reply May 29, 2009
- 25 replies
- As I was researching another topic, I came across this interesting article about how we have been mislead in the name of "healthy eating". I'm certainly not a nutrition expert, but is it possible that ...
Progress Without Pharmaceutical Drugs!
- By KathleenAlford · New reply May 28, 2009
- 25 replies
- Although I no longer see Dexascan scores as the most telling indicator of bone health, I was encouraged by the results of this year’s scan: A 2.2% gain in the bone density of the hip (femoral neck), correlating ...
Filing for Disability
- By Ladybug0904 · New reply May 26, 2009
- 14 replies
- Have you filed for disability as a result of your osteoporosis? Work or Social Security Disability? How difficult has it been ...
Holistic Approach
- By njones0623 · New reply May 19, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hello, my Holistic Dr. does not believe in the meds everyone is taking for osteoporosis. I am 54 and have been diagnosed with the disease. I take my calcium and magnesium and have been trying to up my ...
side effects from actonel
- By Isaac · New reply April 28, 2009
- 8 replies
- I started taking fosomax in May, 2008. My doctor switched me to Actonel. Has any one else had the feeling of tightness in their chest/stomach area with a feeling of shortness of breath ...
how often to have a bone density (full body scan) test?
- By kitsie · New reply April 11, 2009
- 2 replies
- My primary care P.A. (physician's ass't.) is very good but says I only need a full body scan once a year. Is that pretty much correct? My risk factors are 1)I also take seizure medications, and bone density ...
EZorb and improved DEXA
- By vikkid · New reply February 24, 2009
- 15 replies
- Has anyone taken EZorb calcium to improve bone density? I started on that after getting a Dexa Tscore of -2.2 in spine and -3.2 in hip. Also started taking Strontum, Vit D3, DHEA, and a few others. I ...
32 and postmenopausal with osteoporosis
- By onelife1976 · New reply February 23, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hello...this is all new to me..I was diagnosed in Oct. 2008- the Dr's have started me on Bonevia- this makes me very sick for about 5 days..not sure why-anyone else on this? also they have me on Estradiol ...
Excess calcium and osteoporosis
- By Jacqueline · New reply February 16, 2009
- 5 replies
- I want to share a Pub-Med article that I just came across: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed /15949902?dopt=Abstract ...
Still calcium in urine after parathyroid surgery
- By JenBBB · New reply February 14, 2009
- 3 replies
- I had parathyroid surgery last July. My blood calcium is now good, but I still have calcium in my urine. Anyone else have this situation? I'm now back on hydrochlorothiazid. But it sent my citrate levels ...
Is my jaw/facial pain due to medication ?
- By apr43 · New reply February 8, 2009
- 9 replies
- I've been taking Fosamax for 8-10 yrs. I had always been active,didn't have a sedentary job, so was surprised when my internist diagnosed me with severe osteoporosis. Within a year or two I had regained ...
Lupus link to osteoporosis
- By Strirun · New reply January 18, 2009
- 14 replies
- We just found out that my mother has lupus. She is 82! Was quite surprised. She also has osteo and during my research I found an article saying that there is a link between the two diseases. She was also ...
Florida & Osteoporosis
- By pwk5757 · Posted January 14, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello, I am writing from Information Television Network (ITV), a TV production company located in South Florida. We are the producers of an award winning health and wellness series called, "Healthy Body ...
osteopenia
- By kas · New reply December 11, 2008
- 2 replies
- I am 57 and was diagnosed earlier this year with osteopenia in my spine so it is not advanced YET and I have absolutely no symptoms I like to work out at the Y and one thing I do is a lot of situps and ...
Evista for post-menopausal women with osteoporosis
- By huessysignoret · New reply December 11, 2008
- 7 replies
- I'm getting so much flak over my decision to use natural progesterone cream instead of bisphosphanates that I'm considering trying Evista (I tried it once before, and seemed to become depressed, but a ...
Bad falls. No breaks. Why?
- By huessysignoret · New reply December 1, 2008
- 13 replies
- I'm a postmenopausal woman with osteoporosis. Due directly to various medications I've been prescribed (Neurontin, Inderil, Imiprimine (sp?), I've suffered a number of bad falls -- out of bed, down stairs ...
what about kidney problems with reclast?
- By bratt · Posted November 8, 2008
- 0 replies
- I am wondering what happens if after you get a injecdtion of reclast if you develop kidney problems, what do you do about it? since it will be in your body for a whole year ...
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