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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: May 21 9:55am | Replies (232)
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@babs10

Wow, that's quite a list. This brings me back around to the first part of my previous post. Some of the more holistic practitioners suggest a lot of blood tests to help them get to the root of the diagnosis. If there are no mitigating factors besides menopause, is that the root cause? Thanks.

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windyshores | @windyshores | Mar 18 1:29pm

I personally don't get into other causes, though cancer meds certainly worsened my osteoporosis. But menopause caused a big drop before that. PTH (parathyroid) is one factor I think would be good to check.

Again my personal view is that if a woman is past menopause. doing all those alternative tests might be a waste of money. But it depends on T scores. If osteoporosis is mild there might be other approaches besides meds that can mitigate bone loss, even if menopause is the cause!

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