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@fearfracture

I agree that Margaret Martin https://melioguide.com/ is a wealth of information when it comes to everything osteoporosis. The one issue I have found, in general, when looking for osteoporosis related information is that so much of it is geared toward 70+ y.o. people. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis 4 yrs ago at age 50 (L1-L4 average t-score at that time was -3.9) and when I researched safe exercises, I found everything to be way too easy. I asked 2 doctors, my endocrinologist and an orthopedics doctor and my endocrinologist stuck w/ the unhelpful light weights and walking—if this could help me, I wouldn’t have osteoporosis because I’ve been doing both of these things my entire adult life—and the orthopedics doctor suggested I take up running. I was able to get a few session w/ a physical therapist, who works at an orthopedics medical practice. She didn’t have any real experience working with ppl with osteoporosis because apparently most ppl w/ osteoporosis don’t seek out this type of help and the exercises suggested by the physical therapist were too easy for me so I quit physical therapy and joined a gym and have gradually increased my weights. Note, I haven’t had any fractures and I’m just hoping all my hard work will pay off—I’ve been going to the gym 3 days a week since January 2022.

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Fear fracture… Since you haven’t fractured , in addition to exercise, I hope you are looking at other root causes for having osteoporosis. There are many!! Additionally, if you haven’t gone through menopause yet, investigate measures as you near that time to keep loss of bone to a minimum.

@fearfraacture Question: Are you on med? Also, did you have any improvement in your scores or have you not had a repeat dexascan? Thanks in advance for your reply.