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Anyone progress from osteoporosis to osteopenia?
Being new to this site, I’m enjoying all the info out there on your experiences with osteoporosis. Has anyone been diagnosed with osteoporosis and been able to gain bone density to the point of osteopenia, or better. I’m 65, have osteoporosis, and each bone density it gets worse. I’ll admit I need to step up with exercise, and make changes to diet. But would love to hear from anyone who has positive changes and specifically what you did to achieve them. Thank you!
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Hey debbik,
Please feel free to private message me if you want more info. Be forewarned that it does take a lot of commitment & consistency to get the results you want. (Probably helps to be a tad compulsive!). In addition, I think an investment in a low intensity vibration platform worked for me, together with a bountiful supply of supplements, slight dietary changes, and bHRT. But maybe I was just 🍀 lucky!
This is very inspirational. Can I ask how old you were when you started the bioindentical hormones? And how many years after the start of menopause? My doctor (so far) says I'm too far past the start of menopause (11 years), and I think I heard Dr. Keith McCormick say that as we get "too old" the estrogen receptors in our body don't respond to HRT anymore so it doesn't help. Thanks.
I had been on bHRT around the time of menopause (age 55/56), but stupidly discontinued it after about a year or so since it was not covered by insurance.
Fast forward to my OP diagnosis at age 68. Restarted bHRT and have been on it for around 2 years, with some rejiggering along the way.
So I had been done with menopause a good 11 or 12 years, with a brief interlude of bHRT, before beginning hormone therapy again.
I am living proof it can be done!
Did you experience the t8 fracture when you were osteopenic?
Could you briefly describe the other strength exercises you do with weights? It would be very helpful since you have seen success.
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2 ReactionsI'm 68 and just went from osteoporosis to osteopenia at my last scan (after years of it getting worse). Last January, I had an infusion of Reclast, which is the only way I can account for the improvement. Good Luck!
It does vary, but before I work with the trainer he has me do the abbductor/adductor machine, leg press (I’m up to 160 after starting with 100,) low row machine with the handle that keeps my hands apart, it almost looks like an old-fashioned steering wheel on a toy metal car, two back machines (there’s so many kinds) then stuff with him, three sets of 10. Always. That takes about 20 minutes or so. Sometimes squats and lunges (depending on how my back is doing)
With him for about 50 minutes: bridge type exercises with weights on my stomach, chest press with dumbbells, biceps and triceps, step-ups. I think nothing out of the ordinary. But main thing is the minute I say oh, that’s feeling kind of easy, he ups the weights so that by the end of the third set (and sometimes the second set) I am pushing pretty hard to complete that rep. We do core, or I do that at home.
I really don’t know if it’s body part specific or the amount of weight. I think it’s the continual increase of weight and also doing all body parts. My doc says weights won’t really help the hip bones, but my trainer doesn’t believe that and throws in some stuff that strengthens the hip more 😂. Hope this helps. Oh, consistency.
WOW! 140 pounds! Active 78 yr old here who can do and has done 110 pounds with pretty much no hip improvement. Had a Reclast infusion last December and if the scan is correct my spine showed great improvement. Hips still fluctuate between -2.6 and -2.4 and have for 8 years. Hope to just take a holiday and eventually get on a bone builder. Keep us posted on your Evenity journey.
my hips are about the same. will keep you posted. guessing 7 months or more before next dexa. fingers crossed. i'd like to get on my road bike but am worried what happens if i hit a bump and fall off. maybe time for wide bike tires.
fell off my bike last year! Only "injury" was that I jammed my right thumb somehow when I landed. My dexa from the 6th of this month also measured my right arm which comes in at -4.0! I was surprised that as bad as the arm is and the fact that I landed on it, there was no damage. Try a short ride to give you confidence. Good luck.