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Bone turnover markers (CTX and P1NP): do you have a baseline?
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May I ask what's your frax score @babbsjoy if you don't mind (don't feel obligated to answer though)? Will your endo monitor your bone markers once anabolic therapy starts? I'm trying to get a sense of current practice trend. Seems it varies a lot among practices. Insurance coverage criteria also varies quite a bit.
All the best!
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Looking back over this discussion , to refresh my memory as I will go in AM for new labs, including bone markers. I have been on Tymlos about five months now. Our insurance with employer changed in the new year, and so far they are declining my need for an annabolic and will only cover a bisphosonate. My doc left for another part of the country, and the doc in practice I will now see wants testing to determine if “Tymlos is even working” (which is reasonable!). BUT my pen expires tomorrow, and I can’t get in to see the doc that is new to me, until mid February. So unless something wonderful happens in all the communications with insurance, or my scores wow the doc and they agree to give me a sample pen to keep me going while it’s worked out (and prior to appointment), I will be off med for at least a month. (I am willing to try to self pay generic Forteo, so hopefully doc will prescribe if labs support). This is so frustrating! Praying labs are great!