Thanks for your reply, @susanfalcon52, that is great news for the collective OP community and it’s good to hear from someone who has experienced both OP and a hip replacement.

I’ve also wondered about spinal surgery, in the event of collapsed vertebrae, to keep us upright - my brother had rods placed in his back 30+ years ago after a devastating accident. Those rods are what has kept him moving around after all these years. One thing I notice when visiting medical facilities is the number of “older” women . . . and men . . . who don’t seem to be walking particularly upright and it frightens me.

I, too, had a year long treatment of Evenity with a great outcome and no side effects.

The best to you! Cheers!

That's great that your hip replacement was such a success. It heartening to hear of your successful year on Evenity, too.

Of course it's not true of all of them, but it seems like a high percentage of ortho surgeons are pretty vague/fuzzy about their patients' bone density and osteoporosis issues and they don't want to be asked too many questions. (My surgeon wanted to follow up with me frequently in the first few months after my surgery, but he never really talked to me about OP or drug therapy or getting a DEXA until our final meeting and then he gave me a little brochure and an rx for Fosamax, muttering something about "CMM rules say I have to educate you about OP since it was a fall that brought you to me, so here you go, but (paraphrasing now) please don't ask me any further questions about it and just follow up with your PCP or an endo."

A number of people on here have talked about being surprised that their orthopedic surgeon couldn't or wouldn't tell them more about OP, so it must be a bit of a "thing" that they don't delve too far in to it.

Can you share your before and after Evenity DEXA scores? Thanks.