Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?

This may help the pain but doesn't solve the "problem". I think the root cause needs to be found and treated. Just my humble opinion!

@annevan I think you have brought up an interesting problem. Osteoporosis, at least we are told, does not hurt, nor does it restrict movement. This lessens motivation to treat it with meds. Before my fractures I was doing strenuous sword tai chi and feeling like an athlete. All it took was one unfortunate movement and I had three painful lumbar fractures.

It's kind of Russian roulette. Eventually I realized I could no longer count on luck!

I had good results from Forteo. Suffered no side effects. After two years had 12% increase in spine and 5% in hips. Good luck!

Teri, are you taking strontium? If so, which form. I recently read some studies about the importance of ortisilicic acid to bones so added Bio-Sil to my regime. I don't know for sure that it'll help bones but the stylist at local hair salon swears by it for healthy strong hair. Maybe it'll help me grow fingernails wee as nothing else ever has including the biotin and zinc taken faithfully.

@hlp123 - If you mean "tagging" someone that is when you type in their member name like I did when I typed your @membername to start this sentence. When you type a members name with the @ sign, they will receive an email notification with a link to your post when they click the VIEW & REPLY button at the bottom of the email message.

Can you give me directions for "taging" someone. I don't want to miss any posts about how to treat Osteoporosis naturally. Thank you so very much !!
I really appreciate all of the information I now have access to !!!
I am very grateful for this help !

Thank you for your advice. In my case, what mystifies me is that I have NO problems, not bending forward, no pain. I do strong exercices, never broke a thing inspite of some falls. But the numbers are cary. I have taken note of the drugs you mention, and will discuss it with the spécialiste I am seeing soon

I started Forteo about 6 weeks ago & qualified for patient assistance thru Lilly Cares. I have had no particular side effects—Forteo was suggested to me about 17 yrs ago! I was 55 & neither of my female docs were aware of it. My last bone density was so poor that I decided to finally try Forteo. I took the biphosphonates from early 50s for about 10 yrs. I am very active but still bad bones! I hope you can make the best decision for you. Take care.

@annevan are you considering bone-growing drugs like Tymlos, Forteo or Evenity? Your DEXA score might mean insurance could cover, and both Tymlos and Forteo companies have patient assist programs. I chose Tymlo because the dose is adjustable, and I started with a low dose and moved up. It is easy to be afraid of side effects, but as a person with several spinal fractures, I am more afraid of fractures than side effects= even despite many med sensitivities.

I missed that. Maybe because Evenity is a new drug?

A friend in Oregon called to tell me her mother's suffering multiple compressin fractures of the vertebrae. Someone on Mayo Connect mentioned Dr. Susan Ott in Seattle whose expertise is osteoporosis. Ott also teaches about it at the Univ. of Wash. I mentioned her and my friend's going to take her mother there for a consultation.

What concerns me is athat all of the female relatives on her mother's side, in earlier decades, suffered severe osteoporosis. Her mother's never even had a DEXA scan despite bone loss being a clear possible issue. Now she's in her late 70 and might have fewer treatment options but I hope I'm wrong about that.