Fell broke wrist. now worried about have to start op meds

First thing I would do is get a new DEXA scan. You can't make decisions based on a score that is 1.5 years old. For all you know, the score is worse.

I have a dexa schedule in May. I hope it is not worst, because of everything I have been doing for 1.5 years.

I think wrist fractures due to trauma might be inevitable in people of all ages depending on how you fall. The fact that you fell on your butt and didn’t fracture your hip seems like good news. I’ve fallen several times with osteoporosis and never broken anything. My only fracture resulted from behind over a bathtub while flexing my spine forward and pressing down hard on my ribcage while straining to get my head under the faucet.

Hopefully your DEXA scan will show good results. And you don’t have to take meds if you don’t want to. I chose to take them due to my vertebral fracture. So far my side effects from Evenity have been tolerable. I also took Fosamax before my fracture without any issues (except that it didn’t work for me).

Thanks. I appreciate your commitment

I may be incorrect and protocols change constantly but a dexa is run at age 65 or before that age if you are post menopause if you break something, regardless of how you break it. I also broke my wrist…both…and both traumatically (car wreck air bag went off and the EMT and ER doc said they sees this all the time, at any age). Other wrist break was from tripping over a 3 foot high ramp and catapulting 10 feet through the air landing 100% on my right palm. But I believe the treatment is the same; if the dexa comes back as less than perfect drugs are prescribed. My wrist surgeon for what it’s worth said my bones looked great; plate and pins holding all together while healing and it healed just fine. So a lot of gray area. Some of us may need to do everything from diet and supplements and drugs at the same time. Some can improve with (for example) exercise and some diet changes, and avoid medication.

I'm sorry you had a fall, and while trying to do something good for yourself: working out!

I think it's great that you landed on your bottom and nothing broke except for your wrist! I know plenty of women in their 60s/70s who've broken a wrist and who don't have osteo. To me, it sounds like you are pretty healthy. With the way you work out, it could be your Dexa shows improvement, not decline. It's always best to keep optimistic. Lord knows we have enough negativity thrown at us with osteo.

I just entered this field of osteo, but I've been researching a ton. I've seen tons of people on these sites reverse osteo through BHRT, supplements and exercise. Just trying to give you some support in case you want to try the natural approach first.

My July 2025 DEXA scan showed -3.3 in my radius forearm, which includes the wrist. Similar to my lumbar reading of -3.2. I have fallen hard on my butt in the last year and not fractured my hip, fortunately, but I think my wrist is at greatest risk. The type of bone in the wrist is very difficult to build up, per my doctors' opinions and my research results. I am curling with 3 lb. weights in an effort to defy the science! Also on Tymlos for 5 months and too early for follow up DEXA. Lots of supplements as well. It's a real "shocker" when we learn we have these issues. I jokingly tell my doctors that I am melting, or body parts are falling off. Unfortunately true. And this after 40 years as a marathon runner. Now at 77 happy to be able to walk for 3 miles (and that hurts).

I was lifting 55 lb doing Romanian Douglas. Also lifting 20 lb a piece in each hand doing overhead press, and several other exercises. So hopefully since I have been lifting weight my bone will heal quickly. I am due to have a DEXA may 1. Hopefully my score improves or at worst stays the same.