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Osteopenia Supplements that work?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 25 12:39pm | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
@rlplaut
As I said, this was not my advice
This was not my opinion a bone doctor that is a prostate cancer specialist said this at a conference about six months ago. He was pretty emphatic about the fact that people need those drugs to keep their bones healthy while on ADT.
ADT can very quickly, deteriorate your bones, That’s why the doctor said this.
I was on Fosamax for six years, Had no real side effects from it, but it did make my bones a lot stronger. I am on Zometa now, Had infusions every three months for about the last year and a half. Never had any side effects from it at all
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@jeffmarc Hi Jeff, Thank you for the good news about your experience with Fosamax. If my upcomming DEXA shows osteoporosis and I need to go with a bisphosphonate, your input will be important to me.
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@jeffmarc I agree that bone-density loss is a serious risk for all of us on ADT and requires some kind of proactive approach, but I wonder if that doctor's perception of it also owes something to selection bias.
As an orthopedist rather than an oncologist, he'll see mainly the cases where prostate-cancer patients on ADT *are* having serious bone-density issues (especially those who are relatively elderly and inactive); the ones who are doing better would be less likely to show up in his office.