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Recently diagnosed with severe osteoporosis of lumbar spine -3.4 T sco
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Apr 1 6:51pm | Replies (68)Comment receiving replies
Hi doglover1962. It’s such a shame that we are put on such a spinning wheel, but yes, I am on a wait list to see another endocrinologist, plus I’m migrating to a new DEXA machine at a different location that has TBS score capability. I’m getting my baseline DEXA on this new machine on April 9, two days before I get my first teriparatide injection. My family doctor is ordering baseline blood work for me. I need to find out what I should include. I was thinking CTX and P1NP … but reading your post on calcium loss, I was wondering what baseline measures you did and what measures will test again 3 months later?
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Hi Lynn59,
My functional medicine aprn did order tests for vitamin and mineral deficiency which resulted in not enough Omega 3s. I then had more tests done, CTX 742, P1NP 68, Homocysteine 6, Estradiol < 15, alkaline phosphate isoenzyems 90, intestinal isoenzymes 21, bone isoenzymes 46, liver isoenzymes 33, placental isoenzymes 0, macro hepatic 0, N telopeptide 63, creatine, random urine 67, Gliadin (deamidated) AB (IGG, IGA) < 1 and 2.3 for (Igg). No antibody detected. I also had a comprehensive stool test which shows i have Dysbiosis. My aprn wants me to go on a dairy and gluten free diet for 2 weeks and has prescribed supplements as indicated in McCormick's book Great bones. I will be doing this in a few weeks since dairy is my main source of calcium. I have no stomach or digestive issues but I obviously have some inflammation in my gut that I was never aware of. I'm not throwing out all the food I have already purchased and will slowly transition over to this diet.
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lynn59, if you haven't already, it may be a good idea to do a 24hr urine calcium to make sure you are not losing calcium via kidney.
As for btms, idk how it works for Canada. In US, if one were to pay outpocket, we could bypass doctor and order online directly. When the tests are on sale, which happens very frequently, they are about 20-25% off, our pocket still hurts though.