Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?

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Teri, are you taking strontium? If so, which form. I recently read some studies about the importance of ortisilicic acid to bones so added Bio-Sil to my regime. I don't know for sure that it'll help bones but the stylist at local hair salon swears by it for healthy strong hair. Maybe it'll help me grow fingernails wee as nothing else ever has including the biotin and zinc taken faithfully.

I had good results from Forteo. Suffered no side effects. After two years had 12% increase in spine and 5% in hips. Good luck!

@annevan I think you have brought up an interesting problem. Osteoporosis, at least we are told, does not hurt, nor does it restrict movement. This lessens motivation to treat it with meds. Before my fractures I was doing strenuous sword tai chi and feeling like an athlete. All it took was one unfortunate movement and I had three painful lumbar fractures.

It's kind of Russian roulette. Eventually I realized I could no longer count on luck!

This may help the pain but doesn't solve the "problem". I think the root cause needs to be found and treated. Just my humble opinion!

Thanks so much for letting me know about your positive outcome with Forteo. All going well for me thus far! Take care.

Before you took Forteo, were you on other Osteoporosis medicines such as Fosamax or Reclast? The reason I asked is that I have heard that prior use of those medicines may decrease the effectiveness of Forteo.

I had not been on Fosamax or any other Osteo drugs. I had read about other medications decreasing the effectiveness of Forteo, so that why I requested to go onto Forteo first. I did follow up with a Reclast infusion after the two years on Forteo was completed. But now that the two-year limited use has been lifted I’m going to see if I can go back on it.

Hi @callalloo, I'm on the fence about strontium. I don't take it because I've read so much conflicting information about it and I don't know what to believe. It's supposed to improve bone density, but I've read that it tricks the dexa scan. I should ask my rheumatologist if he has any patients who are taking it and what their results are. I also take biotin and silica. Maybe members of Connect who are taking strontium can share their experiences.

I'll research the strontium question further. So far I'm reading the osteopenia3.com website as this woman swears she reversed osteoporosis as have others. I spoke with her and she's a retired professor of philosophy from a Catholic college and not selling anyhing just sharing what she did. I think some of its dated but I liked the page about some of the factors contributing to osteoporosis.