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@teb , I'm very happy to hear your good results! 6-7 years... hope this is reproducible in others - I sure hope I could achieve to maintain my current bmd for this long. However, your diet and exercise regimen are hard to beat 🙂
If your bone marker readings on a higher dose hrt are similar to that while on lower dose estradiol, I'd use the lowered dose if I were you. The main bone effect of estrogen is antiresorptive anyway. Do you see you p1np is as suppressed as your ctx? Mine is, and this makes me reading more and also wanted to compare with yours.
Yes you could get your TBS retrospectively once they install the software on the same machine. The machine I had my scan once had a tbs software glitch and couldn't provide TBS after the scan. But they posted TBS once they fixed the software.
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Thanks @mayblin! I was literally shaking opening that report, expecting to see a decline and when I saw an increase, I was shaking even more. Now I'm back off of Cloud 9 and assessing more realistically as some of this change may be due to arthritis. Hard to know how much of it. I questioned my doctor on this and he said that the hips were a better indicator of bone density due to arthritis impacting the spine in particular and that my hips were stable (according to this dexa scanner, slightly improved). Anyway, I'll keep doing what I'm doing and hope for the best.
I requested a P1NP in addition to the CTX but my doctor did not order it. I won't see him until June and plan on questioning him then. I always have to push him for these markers but since I'm not on a standard osteo med, he doesn't believe I need them. I am now wondering if I decrease my dose of estradiol, if I will experience bone loss since my body is now used to this higher level. Please share anything you find if it pertains. Thanks!