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Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 2 10:11am | Replies (1085)Comment receiving replies
Nope, you can never "catch up." I haven't looked at Prolia, but the drugs I have researched do not grow new bone. They keep old bone from leaving as would normally happen. Old bone and new bone are not the same. The minerals your body needs to be able to add them to bone are: calcium, magnesium, boron, and zinc (with copper). You won't get enough vitamin D from being in the sun unless you're wearing a bikini and at the right place on the globe. I had a blood test (and another and another), thanks to my rheumatologist, and learned I need 5,000 IU of D3 / day. Even tho I'm in a place on the globe where I don't have to completely cover up outdoors most of the year. The Japanese treat osteoporosis with all this and add K2. ... The bones in the arms benefit from lifting weights, especially. Dumbbells are inexpensive. I have mine on an A frame which fits into a closet.
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I was on Forteo for 2 years. Had 12% increase in Spine and 6% in hip. Now on Reclast with no adverse reaction, and will see how my numbers look in a year. I agree that exercise, diet and supplements are so very important… and is what I did for 25 years to hold off Osteoporosis. But at 65, with extra “help” from menopause, it was time to add that pharmaceutical assistance. Be informed and do what is truly best for yourself and your stage in this process.
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Forteo and Tymlos grow bone without halting turnover. Evenity grows bone AND to some extent halts turnover, but not to the extent that biphosphanates and Prolia do. You say the drugs that you researched do not grow bone. Forteo, Tymlos and Evenity all grow bone. What drugs are you researching?