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What about men and Osteoporosis?
Very interesting article in the New York Times this morning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/health/osteoporosis-men.html
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Not able to view the NY Times article without signing in or creating an account. It may be interesting but I would really like to see what the research is behind the article. Does the article have a medical or science based reference? Can you share the link?
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Darn. Sorry about that. Let me see what I can find. Thanks
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John, this an article including the work of dr. Cathleen colon-emrick
https://medschool.duke.edu/news/men-have-bone-loss-similar-women-va-program-helped-them-catch-it-early
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Another research article. Not including the dr. Mentioned in the nyt.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1521694222000250
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1 ReactionHope. this useful
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2837760
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2 ReactionsThanks @gravity3!!
I am a male, age 66. The word "osteoporosis" was never mentioned to me by any doctor when getting annual checkups. I looked fine, I was athletic, I worked out. Then I had a fracture at 64 which wasn't from a fall, and even the orthopedist (!) didn't say "hmm, that's suspicious, you should have a bone density test." Nope. Only my primary care doctor brought it up when I told him about the fracture.
I see a number of old men walking around with stooped shoulders, and I bet most of them *still* don't know they have osteoporosis. It's just "aging" as far as they are concerned.
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5 Reactions@njx58 thank you so much for sharing your story and I am so sorry you had to fracture for this to be revealed. I worry about my husband and the other men in my life whom I care about.
@gravity3 Thanks! Men need to realize that this isn't just something old ladies get.
And, as people here know, the challenge is to find a doctor who knows the score. My PCP just said "take Fosamax and get a DEXA in two years." Wow - apart from doing nothing at all, that would have been the worst thing I could have done! That's when I decided to contact Dr. McCormick as well as an experienced endocrinologist.
P.S. as I've posted before, Tymlos is helping me a lot, and yesterday I ran a 5K race. 🙂
@njx58 if you don't mind me asking how old were you when you were diagnosed with osteoporosis and what were your T-scores? How long can you take Tymlos for, is it a pill or injection?