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Diagnosis Via CT Scan
Have any of you had osteopenia or osteoporosis diagnosed via CT scan? I had a soft tissue scan of my throat for another reason and the radiologist threw in a couple of bonus findings. One was osteopenia of my cervical spine. The other was a possible unruptured brain aneurysm. (Waiting to get the CT angiogram to confirm the latter finding.) I had not heard of CT scans used to diagnose osteoporosis
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Yes, 75 with osteoporosis. Never broken a bone, well, the small finger long ago. RN got very annoyed with me when I "refused treatment" of a med. I told her I would prefer to use diet, exercise, and vitamin supplements (vitamin D which they suggested) to strengthen myself. I hold fast to the belief that I decide what works best for me, and yes, thank you very much for all the suggestions which usually involved too many meds. At times, I have learned the hard way with poor med advice and payed a heavy price.
@normahorn I cannot have IV contrast due to kidneys and I imagine I would have a hypersensitivity reaction to it that would be truly harmfulnormahorn I cannot have IV contrast due to kidneys and I imagine I would have a hypersensitivity reaction to it that would be truly harmful.
This is way off topic and probably completely irrelevant but here goes. The twin of a person I know was at the point where dialysis was being seriously considered. She saw a new doctor who took her off two medications. One was a statin. Her kidneys improved to the point that dialysis was no longer needed.
Not sure what happened to that post of mine- too late to edit!