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What supplements help Osteopenia, Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Apr 14 2:13pm | Replies (150)Comment receiving replies
I'll be talking with an endocrinologist to find out if the risks for me are worth it. For all the talk about OP being an experience that should be customized as far as treatment, the doctors sure talk in generalities a lot and imply we're intended to get some personal treatment takeaway idea out of that. I like Dr Gina Woods' graphic in her Osteoporosis Update 2018 YouTube video that shows how many OP patients would need to be treated with Bisphosphonates for 3 years to *help prevent* a single fracture vs how many would need to be treated to (allegedly/hypothetically) *harm*/(cause a single atypical femur fracture) and it made a general case for medicating (see attached). My personal decision is TBD.
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I find the NNT ("number needed to treat") statistic interesting when reading any medical studies. It's fraught with the same 'fuzziness' that a lot of statistics related to human health are inherently but, in cases where a drug has a lot of adverse side effects, it's a measure of how many people who wouldn't benefit from it anyway are being exposed to them. I think doctors should tell patients the NNT stat when prescribing such drugs.