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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
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.
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I had a 24 hour urine calcium test done in October 2023 for Dr. McCormick and again in early February for my endocrinologist, so I’m sure if something was awry one of them would have told me. In Canada, bloodwork has to be ordered by our doctor, so I want to make sure I have a good baseline requisition request for my family doctor to make happen. Then I need to know when to test again, and what measures. I believe Dr. McCormick recommended retesting CTX, P1NP, Homocysteine and CBC after 3 months of Forteo therapy but I don’t remember anything about retesting calcium in the blood or urine. What are you testing before/after therapy?