This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I don't have my T-scores offhand, but I do know that I have severe osteoporosis in my wrists and severe osteopenia in my hips. My guess is that 40 years of pounding the pavement as a long-distance runner kept my bone density higher in my hips than my wrists, but that is only conjecture. I'll ask my endocrinologist about Forteo or Tymlos or Evenity. Again, my guess is that she is saving the big guns for later, in case the Reclast doesn't work? There is so much that I don't know about this process, and that lack of knowledge is really frustrating. My endo sat with me for 45 minutes and painstakingly explained everything to me, but frankly (even though I'm a writer for a living and used to processing large amounts of information), it was difficult to absorb it all. I'm going to print out your reply and try to do a little research on my own after I meet this latest copy deadline. I came from following Dr. Joel Fuhrman, who advocates for nutritional and weight-bearing fixes and is very opposed to the pharmaceutical treatments because he feels that the quality of the bone grown is very poor and not any less prone to breaking, so I'm trying to rid myself of this bias and keep an open mind, which is hard for someone who swore she'd never be on one of these drugs!
Thanks for sharing this info with me!

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