@sl303 Agree with you completely!! All of these osteo drugs have side effects, some quite serious, and no one can tell how their bodies react until it's too late. The risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, blood clots, dementia and other biologic events increases anyway with age alone. To me HRT, replenishing a natural hormone your body has lost, makes much more sense, especially given that HRT actually protects against all of those things! If only we knew then what we know now.....and also 90% of doctors who are still afraid for whatever reason to prescribe HRT would update their education on all of the studies which show the benefits of HRT, it wouldn't be such a struggle. The struggle is real.