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Bone turnover markers (CTX and P1NP): do you have a baseline?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Oct 5 5:35pm | Replies (183)
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@mayblin

thanks for your set of btms results, @gently !

First question came to mind is: for your baseline testing, did you have the controllable variables under control? Most of us went for bone marker testing for the first time knowing nothing about optimal timing, fasting etc. Some of those factors could be well managed for a more accurate results.

I truly wished I had the baseline bone markers for future references. The one and only opportunity in the therapy journey - treatment naive state - is forever lost.

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nme1985 | @nme1985 | Apr 10 10:40am

I never knew about the CTX blood test until I read about it on this site. I went to my bloodwork and looked at the trends and the numbers. My endocrinologist failed to mention this test and it does seem to be important. I am 67 years old my osteo numbers have gotten better because I am doing bio, identical, hormones, resistance, training, vitamins, etc., my CTX number now stands at 300. The norms on the blood test say anything above 1300 is considered a significant bone turnover am very new to this. If there’s anything you could shed light on I would appreciate it. I looked at my trends over the last 10 years, and they have dropped significantly , the highest was 810 years ago and now 300. They wanted to put me on Polea 10 years ago and I refused that’s when I really ramped up exercise Pilates, vitamins, and my nutrition. Two years ago I went on for two months and had such horrific side effects. I said never again I wound up fainting etc. it was a nightmare, any information on this I would greatly appreciate. I did ask my integrative medicine doctor to also include the P1NP for my bloodwork this month. Thank you for anybody that knows anything about this

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gently | @gently | Apr 10 11:33am

Mayblin, thanks for looking at the bone markers.
I ran five miles just prior to my labs which were at 7am. Probably raising both numbers. Other variables were controlled.
My base numbers look kind of good to me. Can you speculate?

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