Cool. Sounds like you may see nice results on your next DEXA.

Unfortunately, my doctor didn’t order BTM tests for me prior to prescribing bisphosphonates and I didn’t learn about BTMs until I had already started taking osteo-meds.

I didn’t see much improvement in my bones after taking bisphosphonates. I took alendronate for 1.5 yrs, took a 4 month holiday and then had one zoledronic acid infusion.

After learning about BTM testing, through my own research, I chose
not to have the 2nd dose of zoledronic acid that my endocrinologist had prescribed and instead, the day I would have been eligible for the 2nd dose, which was one yr after my 1st and only dose, I had BTM tests, at my request. My results showed that my BTMs were not elevated. Because bisphosphonates stay in one’s system for years, I can’t be certain that the bisphosphonates I’d taken previously hadn’t skewed my BTM results, but my gut feeling is, since my DEXAs didn’t show any significant gains, that my BTMs weren’t elevated when my endocrinologist prescribed the bisphosphonates and that I shouldn’t have taken them.

I recently had my 5th DEXA, and although it was done on a different scanner than my last DEXA, both scanners were GE Lunar and my results were very close to my last DEXA. I haven’t taken any osteo-meds since November 2021, and I eat a bone healthy diet and take supplements for my bones and I’ve been going to the gym 3 times a week since January 2021–I even went today 🙂

Last week I had BTM labs. I should get the results this week. Fingers-crossed my results show that my BTMs aren’t elevated.