Osteoporosis

Our app has only become more user friendly, with information, and so on, since a new young gp joined it.

MissAdventure

Our app has only become more user friendly, with information, and so on, since a new young gp joined it.

It's also on the NHS app, which has been going for years and is nothing to do with a new GP.

When you clicked on certain options on the nhs app, the information wasn't there until recently.
Presumably, unless there's a conspiracy to keep me in the dark, for all the other patients at the same practice.

Theyve begun filling in, little by little.

I’m a complete technophobe . Even scared to go anywhere where I have to use a car park in case I have to use Ringo ( in fact my tech savvy daughter couldn’t pay for a car park recently because she hadn’t put any make up on and face recognition didn’t recognise her…nearly missed a train because of it). But I digress….

I used to care for a lady who was 96 (well, actually her daughter who was only in her 60s)
The mum was a blooming marvel, cooked every day, ensured her daughter was cared for, emotionally, physically and mentally.
She couldn't get on with tech, though, and was too worn to a frazzle to suddenly learn what to do.

Both my mother and her mother had severe osteoporosis like a previous poster my mum lost over 6 inches in height and was. crippled with pain.I had 2 breaks in my 50s and saw a gynaecologist who advised HRT for my menopause and recommended I stay on it for life .
I haven,t had any breaks since,my sister stopped taking HRT and within 6 months had two heart attacks and a series of strokes that have left her paralysed down her right side.
She fell just before Christmas and broke two bones.
They sent her for a dexa scan and she has been told she now has osteoporosis.Before she stopped the HRT she had a scan amd was told her bones were exceptional for someone in their 70s.So having the protection for those years was lost very quickly by coming off the HRT.
I,m currently having a dispute with my GP about me staying on HRT for life as advised by two gynaecologists,I,m stressed to the max in fear of the same horrible outcome as my sister,
I won’t come off it without a fight!

Oh and the incidence of heart attacks and strokes increases dramatically when you come off HRT….my sister wasn,t told that…

I had to come off HRT patch when I was 60 as GP refused to go on prescribing it as per the then guidelines. I was low risk for problems .. had had hysterectomy so did not need progesterone element.
Since then the problem began ... several fractures, osteoporosis.

We try and follow medical advice but it goes in fads!

I have been on so many heart drugs that have caused me so many problems ... there seems to be a cocktail contained in the protocols and it is churned out regardless.
I often think as I am lying on the op table that at some point the stent, pacemaker, ablation etc will be seen as barbaric by future generations! ... as with all our current treatments. Like blood-letting!

MissAdventure

Frogs

I’d like to know how I could have learnt to ‘fall properly’ when I slipped on ice, breaking my wrist. Then 10 years later flying through the air after tripping on a broken paving slab. 🤣🫣🙀x

You should have done a triple toe loop then a twirl, maybe?

I’ll try that next time 🤔😀

No problem.
A leotard and the faint hum of 'Bolero' wouldn't go amiss, I'm sure.