So sorry you had to go through that. Yesterday I went for a first visit to a sports medicine orthopedic surgeon for sit-bone bursitis. I brought all my records including my recent DEXA. His thoughts on my osteoporosis were, first off, no more steroids for me ever (a steroid shot is sometimes given for sit bone bursitis) but his view on osteoporosis meds was that he recommended never to take the meds because he has treated many patients with fractured femurs as a direct result from osteoporosis medications. Could it be that femur fractures are not as rare as the literature makes it out be? I've heard of other orthopedic surgeons not recommend these meds as well. My podiatrist, my general MD, and my dentist all think it's a good idea for me to go on bone meds so his view on them was surprising. His advice to treat osteoporosis is to lift weights to build bone. (He didn't elaborate further since I was there for a bursitis issue.) For the record, I didn't rule out taking them in the future but I'm giving myself two years (I was diagnosed last year) to see if I can maintain or better my DEXA scores. If not, then I'll reevaluate.

It would be interesting to see a study of all fractures of post-menopausal, osteoporatic women compared to osteoporosis medication usage vs non medicated.