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Improve bone density and strength without medication?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jun 6 11:28am | Replies (177)Comment receiving replies
Hormone therapy definitely helps build bone mass, provides better sleep, better memory and more energy. I am 71 and have been on subcutaneous pelletts 12.5 estrogen and 75mg testosterone for last 20 years. I had a complete hysterectomy 20 years ago so didn't need progesterone. I recently had DCIS with lumpectomy stage 0 grade 2 so can't take estrogen patch or pellets as cells they found were estrogen positive. I just got back on testosterone slow release subcutaneous pellet 50 mg which is the lowest dose. Testosterone definitely helps to build bone and I have read some research articles that show this and it also helps the heart. Taking an estrogen cream vaginally is not absorbed systemically into the body so I plan on asking my doctor for that as well. I have osteoporosis and osteopenia and my numbers are pretty bad. I tried Fosamax over 20 years ago and it caused extreme muscle aches and pains and my numbers did not improve. I already have muscle aches since I have Osteoathritis and fibromyalgia and it just made all those symptoms worse. I am very hesitant to take any meds and have not been good about staying on calcium and doing bone building exercise but I have decided to make it part of my regular routine. Glad there is a platform like this to share info.
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What are your numbers if I can ask. I am 67 years old and just started my second dosing of the pellets and I feel remarkably better as far as well being. I think the next dosing he will go to 100 testosterone. I did 75 this time I have no history of breast cancer in the family. I suffer from osteoarthritis terribly, I am hoping my DEXA is going to improve. My numbers aren’t that horrific. I have been doing the cream bioidentical hormones for the last 20 years before switching to the pellets... I think without doing that I would’ve been in much worse shape.. Thank you for sharing.
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@pduff does the testosterone you take convert to estrogen? Also, the amount of estrogen (or progesterone) that feeds our cancers is minute, just from the adrenal glands (or maybe a little from fat) so I would be nervous about the estrogen cream. I have heard other women with cancer do that though. Maybe I am fortunate in not having a partner!
Do you think your hormone treatments were responsible for your cancer?