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Young woman diagnosed with osteoporosis

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Aug 25 4:58pm | Replies (59)

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@windyshores

@sophie93 I was not suggesting hormonal treatment solely for bones. Women who have hysterectomies at your age have hormone replacement. The lack of estrogen affects a lot of things in the body. There is a slight risk of breast cancer with added estrogen but I wonder what the health effects might be of not doing hormone replacement if you have menopause so early.
Curious what your docs' reasoning is...maybe we could all learn from whatever they are telling you.

I have read Dr. McCormick's book Great Bones and met with him several times. You can do a consult with him. He also had osteopororis at a young age. I believe he will tell you that neither hormones nor bisphosphonates are potent enough to grow bones in your situation.

I wonder if you could do both hormone replacement and Tymlos to start.
If you do a bisphosphonate first, it may affect the effectiveness of bone builders in the future.

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@windyshores

My gynecologist is mainly concerned because of the risk of breast cancer due to HRT. I don't know if that same risk applies to another types of cancer as well. I think that is the main reason why they don't prescribed HRT to me, but I have an appointment with them in a month, so I will ask again 🙂