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Recently diagnosed with osteoporosis and I am terrified
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jan 2 5:23pm | Replies (164)Comment receiving replies
@normahorn thank you so much for your reply. I am using the word "severe" because that's the word my general physician used when she called me to give me the results of my Dexa scan. The actual numbers are available to me but I'm too scared to look. If it's really bad, I will panic.
I broke my wrist last summer (before I was diagnosed with osteoporosis) but that was a severe fall (I was running as fast as I possibly could to get home before a rainstorm, tripped over an uneven part of the sidewalk, and flew headlong to the ground ) and I really don't think "weak bones" had anything to do with it. I think anyone's wrist would have broken in those circumstances. It healed nicely.
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My new endocrinologist Is probably upset with me but I don't care. When she saw the results of my last DEXA, she messaged that I have severe osteoporosis and I should try to get an earlier follow-up appointment than the one scheduled. It was my reply that she probably did not like. I am not ready to go into the "sky is falling" mode as the results are similar to those of 3 years ago, DEXA most is skewed to treating the condition as worse than it is for fine-boned individuals, and I only had a hair-line fracture in my arm after a fall where I landed on my right side (including the hip with a bad femoral neck score.) I do need to pursue treatment but I am not going into panic mode.