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What they never told me about dexascans

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@jozer your experience has been similar to mine. Cannot seem to get the full picture from anyone doctor. I guess they are all spread to thin these days but my endocrinologist who has primarily been my treatment doctor for thyroid issues is also now my Osteo doctor and she really offers very little information. In fact, I had to tell her what medication I thought would be best and she then sent in the Tymlos prescription. She never spoke to me in detail about the pros and cons of all of the available meds. And I always consider her a very detailed oriented doctor. The rheumatologist I consulted on one occasion was completely useless, the elderly rheumatologist, who I also consulted with initially, having used him for issues unrelated to OP, at least gave me a list of all of the available meds, but never spoke to me about the pros and cons. In fact, I can’t recall any Doctor Who spoke to me about the pros and cons. My GP was the least useful. I prodded her for a list of the medication‘s, but she had absolutely nothing to say about any of them. Merely asking me if I wanted to start treatment without even discussing the potential treatments. I passed on her, of course. From everything I read on these posts, we have all had to, to some degree become our own diagnosticians. Imagine if we didn’t have the Internet for research and yet there’s so much conflicting information that one really doesn’t know what to believe or expect.

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@willowmena Unfortunately the reality of today's medicine is that doctors have too much stuff to know or cover in the 15 minutes that insurance companies allow them.

I had much better luck with 2 PCP doctors who specialize in treating 65 & older patients only. Both of those doctors were good with putting me on HRT more than 20 years past menopause. The first doctor printed out about 15 pages behind paywalls about HRT including risks, and said that he would prescribe HRT if I felt OK with the risks after reading. Unfortunately he left the practice shortly after, but the replacement doctor did not hesitate at all. She was a big proponent of HRT for osteoporosis and was distressed that the doctor of one of her family members was not up on HRT for OP.

We tend to think of doctors who work with "geriatric" patients as dealing with people who much sicker than whatever we are. But OP is usually a disease of aging. These doctors can focus more about diseases of aging because they can concentrate on older patients and do not need to stay as up on other things that younger people experience like going through menopause or reproductive issues.