As I dig deeper into this chronic disease I also wonder if our bones are ever expected to get in the "normal" range? So many pieces of information to the osteoporosis puzzle you just can't get during a 15-minute endo appointment. I am of the opinion that although there is a so called "normal" number for bone health how do we; and how can we (whether we do drugs or not); achieve that. It seems to me that post menopause with the resulting lack of estrogen achieving the number of a healthy 30-year-old women's bone number would be impossible. I was so uninformed when diagnosed that I thought with treatment you would improve and stop meds! Now I read that some people; after taking powerful medication with possible powerful side effects, (I understand possible not probable) one may have zero improvement? Wow. So, there is the possibility that the only reason we take these powerful meds is to maintain our poor numbers and not get worse?