Any Recommendations for a Osteoporosis Doctor in Northern Virginia?
Do any of you have recommendations for an osteoporosis doctor in the Northern Virginia area whom you trust and is open to a non-pharmaceutical approach to managing/treating osteoporosis? Thanks.
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Do you mean an endocrinologist?
I find that it always helps to go to US News Health and look up their top doctors within the specialty which you are seeking and then go from them.
@kathleen1314, thanks! I was specifically looking for doctors that support a non-drug approach to managing osteoporosisi.
@yds
Well, here is a Zrt web page provider search that searches for BHRT pharmacies and doctors:
https://myzrt.zrtlab.com/tools/findprovider
Plus, personally I find that if I call my local compounding pharmacist that they can steer me towards hormone specialists that use BHRT and hormone testing.
Strontium citrate, and Vit K are the two supplements which are most used for a non-drug approach to managing osteoporosis.
I was diagnosed with osteoporsis years ago. I tried a bisphosphonate and had side effects with which I did not feel that I could live. Plus, the bisphosphonate had not changed my dexa readings for the better in all time in which I had used it. I started strontium citrate and BHRT without alerting my endocrinologist. The first dexa after beginning strontium citrate showed for the first time a significant improvement . My endocrinologist almost skipped into the room . That is when I told him that I was off the bisphosphonate and on strontium citrate. He stopped, sat down pulled up his computer, researched and called some other experts. He told me to change nothing. Dexa after dexa my hard to change femoral numbers increased. Eventually he told me that I did not need him any more. He released me from his practice; told me to change nothing.
My latest Dexa, in December 2025, continued to show normal bone density and now with TBS showed normal bone quality, no side effects , no fractures.
Consider strontium citrate as a non-drug approach to managing osteoporosis.
I live in Northern Virginia and have been under Osteoporosis treatment. Please emial me. Thanks
Thanks so much for sharing your experience with Strontium Citrate! That's very encouraging. I just started taking AlgaeCal and AlgaeCal Booster (their Strontium Citrate). Unfortunately, as a breast cancer survivor, my oncologist strongly advised me not to take HRT. I wonder if my AlgaeCal supplements, along with protein supplements, and weight-bearing exercise, will give me an impact similar to yours (?). I am 72 and fortunately have not experienced any fractures. While my DEXA scan results are bad (and have not been helped by years of being on Fosamax), my REMS scan results show that my hips and spine are quite strong, especially for my age. My fragility score for the hips shows a 3% chance of a fracture in the next five years. For my spine, my fragility score shows a 6-10% chance (not as good as my hips). Dr Andy Bush (who did the REMS scan) recommended HRT (as did my gynecologist), but as I mentioned above, my oncologist vetoed it.
@yds
There are lots of posters on Inspire that have never used any form of HRT or BHRT and just use strontium citrate. Their results are as good as or even better than mine. I just tell that I use BHRT because I come from an academic and programming background, and consider that all information needs to be presented in order to have the whole picture.
Here is a posting of strontium users and their stories. Might sort first to last because many of the stories are at the beginning with some discussions of other matters at the end.
https://www.inspire.com/m/Kathleen1314/journal/d69831-strontium-users-stories-3-alternative-to-pharma-meds/