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Fracturing easily - how do you manage everyday life?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jul 5 7:10pm | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
My osteoporosis is not that bad. But I think taking gabapentin for ten months didn't help my bones. Now I am walking 3-4 miles 5 days a week and doing weight lifting exercises. That is supposed to help the bones I follow 2 Facebook groups for exercises.
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@maryandnans
I'm so sorry about your experience with gabapentin. They tried giving that drug to my son and it had the worse affect on him. He literally became someone else. We had to take him off of it as it was causing so many horrible side effects. I didn't realize it would also do damage to bones.
That is amazing that you're walking that much and doing weight lifting exercises. My husband's doctor is saying no to any exercises right now because he just got two new fractures and she wants to have another xray in a couple of weeks to see if they're stable. I sure hope in the future he'll be able to do what you're doing. That would make him so happy.
I'm glad your osteoporosis isn't that bad. He had a t-score of -3.4 on his DEXA scan. So from what his doctors are saying, his is pretty bad. And he's fracturing doing simple things like emptying the dishwasher. He's been on over a year of high doses of prednisone which is what has caused the osteoporosis.
Best of luck to you and I hope you can keep walking and doing weight lifting! It gives me hope that one day he'll be able to do those things again. Right now it's baby steps.