Hi @gently - Thanks for responding. Of course individual treatment experiences are extremely valuable and I have learned a lot from those experiences. It is tough for a lot of people to share their stories and they are brave to do so.

From a reader perspective, one has to take all experiences with a grain of salt. When placebo adverse events are near equal to on drug events, you have to put everything into perspective. I have read and heard a lot of stories of people getting scared off of treatment just to have a spine or hip break a few years later, and then go on the drug they were scared off of in the first place.

I agree with you on reading trials thoroughly as the devil is in the details for these things. But if you are pushing a T-score of -4.5 and you get convinced that just changing the type of calcium you are taking is going to move the needle, you are headed for disaster.

Just based on what I have learned in the 20 short months since being diagnosed myself. 🙂