I, too, was in depression after my diagnosis exactly a year ago. I saw a personal trainer who scared the living cr*p out of me. She told me to not bend over, how to change the way I vacuumed…..! I talked to my MD, and my endo and they were, like, she’s nuts!

I have been drinking a lot of milk, avoiding spinach and almonds and foods with calcium blocking oxalates. I take algae cal vitamins, and I MOVE my body. I run, I walk, I am lifting more weights (I stayed with a DIFFERENT PT and learned correct techniques) I don’t do crunches and yoga forward falls and chest flies.

I stated taking fosamax 3 months ago. My Dr knew my upset so agreed to have a follow up DEXA after only a year. I improved! My arm is still bad (-3) but, frankly, I’m super skinny and small boned. Most importantly, my spine improved 5%! My hip is -2.4.

I will warn you that people mean well on this forum but they can be super gloom and doom (otherwise they wouldn’t be on a forum if their meds are great, etc). Don’t be discouraged by reading all that. I have had zero problems with fosamax except impatiently waiting thirty minutes for my coffee.

One year later and I don’t dwell on it it I was super sad a year ago. You’ll be fine! XO