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Thank you for your advice. That is good information and does correlate with other things I have read that the medication does stop helping the bone loss. Do you still get your DEXA every two years while taking the meds? I was wondering if you have to wait two years before knowing if the medication is helping.

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Typically, the doctor will want a DEXA every year. Along the way, he will likely order blood tests for P1NP and CTX: the two bone markers that indicate if the medication is working.

I am still on a biannual schedule for DEXA scans. My next one is in a year.