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How do you halt the progress of osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Dec 15, 2023 | Replies (148)
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I'm trying to learn as much as I can about osteoporosis and hope to avoid it entirely. Here's one study looking for better, more precise and accurate (not an oxymoron) methods of looking at bone health given that there are myriad problems with the standard DEXA scans. I'm hoping that bone turnover or other markers, monitored with blood work, will become the gold standard.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27867890/

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windyshores | @windyshores | May 11, 2022

My endocrinologist, head of the dept. at a major hospital, does not do bone turnover marker tests at all. He says they are not useful.

I met with Keith McCormick, author of The Whole Body Approach to Osteoporosis, and he recommended that I get baseline bone turnover maker tests, to help assess effectiveness of drugs. I asked my PCP to order them.

Mine were all in the reference range. Normal. P1NP was 54, reference range 16-96 for postmenopausal.

Collagen CTx 324 pg/ml with reference range 104-1008 for post menopausal.

Also parathyroid (PTH) 50 (ref. 15-79) , calcium 9.7 (ref. 8.9-10.3) and Vitamin D 52.

So with severe osteoporosis and fractures, these tests did not tell me much. Nothing amiss at all. McCormick said we could compare levels while on Tymlos but I have not done that as yet.

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