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Help finding HRT over 10 years post menopause
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jun 26 11:56am | Replies (103)Comment receiving replies
I started 12+ years ago. I knew nothing and didn't find resources. I wish I was starting my journey now......scratch that..... I wish that I had been started on hrt after my spontaneous early menopause at 38. I don't know if that would have changed my dx of osteoporosis but certainly adding more strenuous weight bearing exercises would have helped my bones along with hrt. Because I had osteopenia and my U. C. Davis PCP told me not to fall as a treatment plan I did not begin drugs intervention right away. Anyway I was given alendronate for 3 years, then forteo for two, 2 more years of alendronate ( during that time I had no idea what the drugs were supposed to do or whether I could have side effects. I had some minimal gains from forteo. I then had 1 year of evenity. I have just had my 4th shot of Prolia and now am considering whether to get one shot of reclast to deal with Prolia rebound hoping I'll get to have a drug holiday.
On a brighter note I have not had noticeable side effects with any of those medications.
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It is amazing you have had no noticeable side effects with any of the Rx medications you have used! That truly is a very good thing. I hope I will be as fortunate, once I start.
You said you don't know if starting HRT at 38 yo would have changed your dx of osteoporosis? I’m pretty sure it would have delayed it, like I feel it did for me. I was 39 yo when I had to have a total (non-cancerous) hysterectomy. Fortunately, my OB/GYN Nurse practitioner immediately placed me on Premarin tablets. This was 1990! I used oral HRT for many years, I think to about 55 yo, when natural menopause would have occurred. Then, Premarin was stopped, and I was placed on Femring, a three month ring worn internally. Due to insurance coverage-the lack of it-for “Femring” product, several years later, I changed over to Pfizer Estring (7.5 microgram/24 hours internal ring delivery system. Estradiol Hemihydrate). I am still using it and I’m 75 yo and just moved from osteopenia into osteoporosis. I did always have a lot of physical activity in my lifestyle, and a very calcium rich diet, along with an over the counter vitamins and minerals routine.
The Corvid pandemic starting Jan 2020 and the next two to three years, I feel set me back big time health wise. I never got Corvid but the early isolation, change of anct levels, and different eating style due to less shopping trips and access to easily buy fresh fruits and vegetables, etc., took bone mass from me. Or else those years coming forward are just the normal aging process catching up to me. I don’t know, but I have boarded the darn osteoporosis train.