Hesitant to begin drug treatment for my osteoporosis

So true! I have been on Fosamax since I was 52. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis at 50. I have never broke a bone. I just requested a scan because I was short and had early hysterectomy. Now I am 61 and they say since my spine is -3.2 I need to do one of these injections. I wish I could be little older before I had to start something but I don't want to break something either. The decision is so hard!

What was your original DEXA scan at 50? You are at -3.2 now. Did you get worse or did you improve? What actions did you take between now and then? I was just diagnosed at 63 with a -3.2 spine. I am seeing an endocrinologist in July and I’m scared she will tell me that I need medication.

I am a new member and just got my first bone density scan which found I was severe osteoporosis with a score of -4.0. It was advised that I start on TYMLOS for 18 months to 2 years. I am scared of the side effects and want to investigate alternatives. Can anyone offer advice?

My scan got worse every 2 years. I just kept taking the weekly pill and would take a multi vitamin with calcium. I tried to eat and drink more with calcium also and walked about 5 miles a day. It just gradually got worse. My gyno is your prescribed the weekly pill for the 9 years. I started an endocrinologist and she said you shouldn't do the weekly pill for more than 3 years. I am doing evenity injections now. 2 down...10 to go. I haven't had to many side effects.

I’m new to this forum, and very glad to have found it. I’m 73 and pretty active, or at least my children say so. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2016, out of the blue. My internist put me on raloxifene for 5 years, which my current endocrinologist says was not what he would have recommended. Whatever—water under the bridge. Since then, my husband and I completed the Roper High Sierra route, and last summer I backpacked to various high altitude places. My spine, rather scoliosed (I scuttle along sideways, like a crab), is at T-1.1, and my left femoral neck is at -3.7. Endocrinologist wants me to consider Evenity. I’m scared of it, given the .8/100 risk of heart attack or stroke. I haven’t had either, yet, and want to keep it that way. I am also considering a once yearly oral bisphosphonate, or the daily Forteo. I like Windyshore’s approach to calibrating her daily dose, and that the med leaves the body quickly. I have taken some falls in the past year, but, luckily, I guess, no fractures. My daughter in law, a family practice doc, says go ahead and take the Evenity. My daughter, an E.D. nurse at a children’s hospital, says go to a functional medicine doc for another opinion. I garden, I hike, I take care of my grandchildren, and feel reasonably okay for my age (a little backache here and there). I feel that I could recover from a fractured hip, if it were replaced promptly (I had a hip replacement in 2017 that seemed pretty easy, compared to the cervical fusion in 2013.) Why can’t they just replace my hip? Why, instead, do I have to go on a med that may destroy my life? My doc won’t answer this question when I pose it.

I’m new to this forum, and very glad to have found it. I’m 73 and pretty active, or at least my children say so. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2016, out of the blue. My internist put me on raloxifene for 5 years, which my current endocrinologist says was not what he would have recommended. Whatever—water under the bridge. Since then, my husband and I completed the Roper High Sierra route, and last summer I backpacked to various high altitude places. My spine, rather scoliosed (I scuttle along sideways, like a crab), is at T-1.1, and my left femoral neck is at -3.7. Endocrinologist wants me to consider Evenity. I’m scared of it, given the .8/100 risk of heart attack or stroke. I haven’t had either, yet, and want to keep it that way. I am also considering a once yearly oral bisphosphonate, or the daily Forteo. I like Windyshore’s approach to calibrating her daily dose, and that the med leaves the body quickly. I have taken some falls in the past year, but, luckily, I guess, no fractures. My daughter in law, a family practice doc, says go ahead and take the Evenity. My daughter, an E.D. nurse at a children’s hospital, says go to a functional medicine doc for another opinion. I garden, I hike, I take care of my grandchildren, and feel reasonably okay for my age (a little backache here and there). I feel that I could recover from a fractured hip, if it were replaced promptly (I had a hip replacement in 2017 that seemed pretty easy, compared to the cervical fusion in 2013.) Why can’t they just replace my hip? Why, instead, do I have to go on a med that may destroy my life? My doc won’t answer this question when I pose it.

I’m new to this forum, and very glad to have found it. I’m 73 and pretty active, or at least my children say so. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2016, out of the blue. My internist put me on raloxifene for 5 years, which my current endocrinologist says was not what he would have recommended. Whatever—water under the bridge. Since then, my husband and I completed the Roper High Sierra route, and last summer I backpacked to various high altitude places. My spine, rather scoliosed (I scuttle along sideways, like a crab), is at T-1.1, and my left femoral neck is at -3.7. Endocrinologist wants me to consider Evenity. I’m scared of it, given the .8/100 risk of heart attack or stroke. I haven’t had either, yet, and want to keep it that way. I am also considering a once yearly oral bisphosphonate, or the daily Forteo. I like Windyshore’s approach to calibrating her daily dose, and that the med leaves the body quickly. I have taken some falls in the past year, but, luckily, I guess, no fractures. My daughter in law, a family practice doc, says go ahead and take the Evenity. My daughter, an E.D. nurse at a children’s hospital, says go to a functional medicine doc for another opinion. I garden, I hike, I take care of my grandchildren, and feel reasonably okay for my age (a little backache here and there). I feel that I could recover from a fractured hip, if it were replaced promptly (I had a hip replacement in 2017 that seemed pretty easy, compared to the cervical fusion in 2013.) Why can’t they just replace my hip? Why, instead, do I have to go on a med that may destroy my life? My doc won’t answer this question when I pose it.

You'd rather fracture your hip at age 73 than take medication??