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@grantwriter If you have had multiple spine fractures then you should be offered an anabolic bone-building drug according to recent guidelines. This is according to the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation BHOF. See the below highly-technical research paper, and also the talk by osteoporosis expert Dr. Lewiecki discussing it.
This are recent 2024/2025 conclusions. Our very-busy doctors are not up on the most recent developments on every subject, and some may even pre-date when your doctor made the recommendations.
See Figure 5 in this technical paper. Some of us have found it useful to bring such research papers to our doctors.
Goal-directed osteoporosis treatment: ASBMR/BHOF task force position statement 2024
https://academic.oup.com/jbmr/article/39/10/1393/7723496
You can start about 30 minutes in to the below video to see just the recommendations that are also from the above paper. But I recommend taking the hours to study this amazing talk and slides. See the link to bigger copies of the slides by expanding the notes under the video.
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@kfhoz Why was there no discussion on potential side effects for these OP drugs?
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@kfhoz and all... This research is extremely interesting. I am 79 years old. I have extensive damage from Osteoporois beginning at age 35. I'm through now researching and attempting to resolve this problem with my body. I've done research for all these years, fought the battles, advocated with many doctors for help and treatment, and am too tired and worn out now to do any more. I am living with the situations I have, doing my best to make it to another year.
I do not want to add any more stress at all. No more medications either. No treatments, either. I want peace at this stage and have not much more fight left in me. That's left now to you folks coming up with these diseases to fight for yourselves and others and get treatments that help. I wish you well. I am finished with that.
Currently, my emphasis is on my muscles, damaged by Oxympic, Metforman, diabetes caused by steroids, steroids and all the other nasty, damaging chemicals I put in my body through the last decades attempting to improve my health. I am lasar focused on continuing to walk, to lift my feet, to make my muscles listen to the nerves and work. To keeping my body as stable as possible to get through each day and maybe the next.
It's been a very long fight the last 50 years to survive. I am now praying and focusing on settling into my home comfortable for me at this point in my life and having some peace.
Blessings to all... Elizabeth