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My results after 1 year of Evenity
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Apr 9 10:20am | Replies (51)Comment receiving replies
My understanding right now is Evenity for 12 months and then a bisphosohonate or denosumab to lock in. the bisphonphonate can be alendronate or zoledranic acid. Right now I am at that stage. Thrilled DXAs improved. CTX is 531 but I don’t have any other test to compare that to. All other labs WNL. Vitamin D on the low side of normal at 43ng/ml so I may increase that and try to get
more protein. Trying to decide about collagen peptides also. A couple appts this week and will have a plan of attack for the next year or so. Just very fearful Prolia for
lots of reasons, many reported here. Also realize many had trouble with Evenity and I did not. Everyone is so different and I so appreciate all the sharing that goes on around here!!!
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update to above post.
So it will be alendronate weekly with another DXA October 2024. And keep doing what I’ve been doing with regular exercise and calcium/Vitamin D supplements. I plan to add collagen and maybe osteo-stim a supplement I’ve looked at through Dr McCormacks website. I will have a repeat CTX in January to be sure it is coming down. Neither doc recommended or even mentioned prolia. I did ask why and they said too hard to get off and alendronate will do the job just as well. Apparently only a 1% difference in continued gains vs prolia. I did have severe osteoporosis in the low -3 s with some trauma induced fractures and it seems to be the right thing to start with an anabolic drug followed by alendronate for a few years and then a drug holiday. Best to all dealing with this disease. There is no quick fix and small gains or even staying the same are improvements. Important to keep strong with regular exercise as the supporting muscles, tendons and joints are also part of the picture, not just the DXA numbers!! Thanks again to all contributors to this site. Very valuable info for me.