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Does anyone feel like giving up ?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Apr 16 9:02am | Replies (25)

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It is hard. Feeling like giving up is a sad and bad feeling. I am sorry you have the thought of giving up. I have had many illnesses in my life and sometimes I just take one step forward, one step forward...and fortunately have always gotten through eventually. Chronic Lyme disease and other tick illnesses (30 years misdiagnosed and Drs told me I was crazy), broken hip, cancer three times.

Osteoporosis is scary and I have had the feeling of giving up, but I am not going to yet because I am too scared to give up. I feel fortunate I live in a time when we can do something about osteoporosis, and fortunately I haven't had very bad reactions to the meds. I know some people have, and it is just awful.
There is a lot out there that can help, not much without potential side effects. Not everyone gets them. There are more medications coming down the pipeline.
I sat and researched, meanwhile getting enough calcium, D and K3 and exercise as much as you are able.

There is a man on here who did a super YouTube video explaining the drugs and what order to take them in. I depend on that as a blueprint. He has a vested interest.

Exercise and good nutrition is the basis for good health. It helps reduce inflammation. That is my focus now. I guess to get through what ails me, I research, and try to figure out my plan to move one step forward, even if it is small, like heel drops, just anything to make me feel like I have some control. After I research, I take the attitude, no guts, no glory, and take the plunge. Osteoporosis is hereditary for me and if I don't take the plunge, I will end up like people before me.

I also started yoga and that made me not so achy, by stretching. I lift weights, but I was very tight. I just started with daily yoga stretches. It helped me sleep better at night because pain didn't wake me up. And doing it daily, I see progress. If I don't do yoga, I wake up in the middle of the night achy, so I keep it up.

I hope you can get in a better place. Please remember not everyone gets bad reactions. I just had a bad reaction to Fosomax and it was temporary. Evenity and Reclast were ok.

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Thank you for taking the time to tell about your experience. I wish I could just decide. I think I am most upset about the idea of an infusion. I list my patents to cancer and I think the infusion part has left me with bad feelings.

Could you please provide a link to the You Tube video you mentioned?

@kallettla, thank you for the link to the video!! Very informative. I learned a lot.