@loriesco

I saw your response to @healthseeker77 about calcium and Vit D.

My husband's endocrinologist suggest getting 600 mg calcium in the morning, preferably from food, and another 600 mg in the evening again preferably from food. If you can't get enough from food either in the morning or afternoon, take a calcium supplement to make up the difference (example: if you eat 300 mg calcium in the morning, then take another 300 mg of calcium supplement.)

She also said it's important to get 1,000 mg Vit D. That the Vit D was also important.

His labs check out OK for calcium. So I'm confused about your comments that healthseeker77 is possibly doing something dangerous, and is wasting his/her time taking Vit D. Is this for people with kidney issues?

I'm very sorry to hear what happened to your neck during surgery. That must have been such a shock.

My husband had his first DEXA this year (he has steroid-induced osteoporosis, it's very bad, from taking prednisone for over a year for two medical conditions. The prednisone was his only option for both PMR and GCA (polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis.) The DEXA showed the osteoporosis. Are you saying you had DEXA's and they didn't show your neck issue?

Having said that, I had my DEXA scan this year also and mine turned out that my bone density is great. I also had an x-ray taken of my neck because of some hand pain and I have cervical stenosis that I didn't know I had. So we can have spine issues and still have a good DEXA scan result. You're right that we can have some good bones and some bad.

My recommendation for people with osteoporosis is seeing an endocrinologist and also a physical therapist. Ask lots of questions including what you can and can't do under your own personal circumstances. Before we asked no one told us to limit anything (before we found our endocrinologist.) Once we found her, we started asking lots of questions - especially after it was discovered he had two new fractures. Now we have a good road map of what he should and should not be doing until these fractures are more stable. We work with her and the physical therapist (virtually - he's not gone to have anyone do physical therapy with him. We are using the physical therapist right now mostly for reading x-rays and helping guide us on what is and isn't safe for him to do in his current condition.) We will continue to follow-up with them both.