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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 3, 2023 | Replies (1084)
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@sue225

Regarding bone breaks, I do not think hip fractures are painless. The mortality statistics related to hip fractures are not good. You sometimes never get out of a wheelchair. Vertebral compression fractures are no fun either and are very slow to heal. Curvature of the spine or the "hump" often leads to other problems.
So, in the end you have to be a gambler. (Drugs or no drugs).

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lioness | @lioness | Jun 13, 2020

@sue225 Believe me I know how painful compressed fractures are Mine was in 2005 from work it ended my carter as a nurse Took me a year to get over it. 3 months in a turtle shell brace and 9 months in therapy. I'm not downplaying any pain with a fracture
A friend here told me about her Osteoporosis she has MY bones are just thinning my left hip
My r
Hip hurts from arthritis not left doesn't hurt at all

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JK | @contentandwell | Jun 14, 2020

@sue225. I had a minimally displaced trochanteric femur fracture last July —basically a minor hip fracture— and it hurt a lot and it took at least until November to feel better. I really do not want to have to suffer through a more severe fracture.
JK

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