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I saw the endocrinologist this week for severe osteoporosis. My only options for tx are injections fir the first 2 yrs but I then need to commit to infusion therapy following to maintain bone. This is horrific disease however I also can’t trade living a life of horrific side effects as a form of tx. Thank you fir this post. My labs are still under review and beginning therapy is fortunately likely at least 6 weeks away so I have time to seriously consider what you’ve chosen as an alternative for tx. Thank you for sharing

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I hope you think long and hard before you decide to try what they are
telling you is your only choice. They did me the same way. I was so lucky
I found those women on an osteoporosis website on Facebook. Who told me
what happened to them on those “bone building” drugs. There is not much
you can do once you have osteonecrosis of the jaw. I think the FDA has not
done enough research on those drugs. Please let me know if you have any
questions about what I did. Do you have a strong family history of breast,
ovarian or uterine cancer? My mom had cervical cancer,but not so bad that
it took me away from using a low dose estrogen patch 0.025 mg twice a week
- Medicare even pays for half of it! Maybe ask your gynecologist. I have
a reprint from a medical journal about the effectiveness of this and you
don’t even need the whole patch! I’m not sure what I did with it but if
ifind it, I will let you know. My DEXA scan score was -5.9. Are you worse
than that? Whatever you do, i wish you all the very best. I had at least
four doctors telling me I had no choice so it took guts to do what i did.
My best friend’s mom died from complications of osteoporosis and she never
did anything more to treat it but get those infusions.