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Have you had a DEXA scan to see how well your bones are doing?. Breaking a hip like that seems to have been a little bit too easy. If you get a DEXA scan, it gives you a percentage chance of your breaking a hip? Being on ADT really messes that up but I don’t think you’ve been on ADT long enough to really have serious bone loss due to it.
I know in my case four years after I started taking ADT my chance of a hip fracture was 2.9% according to a DEXA scan. I’m having another one in the next six months. I’m really interested in seeing what’s going on..
I have fallen a few times in the last couple of years, but have never broken anything. Had really sore muscles for three or four weeks in a couple of cases, but nothing broke, And they were all falls on hard surfaces. One time it was right on my hip. I have been taking bone strengtheners for the last seven years, Really an important thing when it comes to being on ADT for a long time.
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@jeffmarc I had a bone density scan last year due to your and others' recommendations. The diagnosis at that time was Osteopenia, not Osteoporosis, and I understand that age is also a factor in bone weakening. I fell prior to PC diagnosis, and in such a way as to crack the neck of the femur. Ignorantly, I didn't go to the ER but saw my orthopedist the next day. He tried pinning the bones together later that week, but the head/neck had lost too much blood supply for too long.