@annie with a spine at -1.6 I personally would not worry about some of the things mentioned. I am a fellow patient so of course ask your doctor or PT.

I feel that this thread needs to differentiate between mild osteoporosis, more serious osteoporosis, and those with fractures- all different groups with different needs for caution, in my view and experience. But this is only my view and experience!

I have a chart of my DEXA's and they do jump around. A change of -.5 is statistically significant according to my doctor. So your -2.6 means a diagnosis but it is borderline and if it were -2.4 you would not have that diagnosis. It is a slope not a cliff! Is your doctor suggesting meds?

That said most fractures happen for people with osteopenia. Of course that is because more people have osteopenia than osteoporosis, and the rate is much higher with osteoporosis! So yeah, don't do anything crazy 🙂