Osteoporosis

I’m recently diagnosed after breaking my hip. GP recommended alendronic acid, vit D/calcium until I pointed out I have acid reflux and gum disease. Rheumotology appointment in June.

I really don’t know the answer to osteoporosis. There is so much conflicting advice. Mine was diagnosed when I broke a wrist. The medication apparently can have awful side effects. I am taking vitamins and eating healthily as well as doing some exercises. I don’t take the medication that was advised by the doctor. No one has a definitive answer it seems.

I've been vaguely complaining about pain in my left hip, and bottom of spine for around five years, and only just had a dexa scan.

I do wish the health service would be more proactive about dealing with issues earlier.

I really think that treating osteoporosis is important. One of my clients drunk herself to death because of the pain and the only comfortable position for her was on all fours 24 hours a day. I vowed then that if I ever got it I would be first in the queue for treatment.

I am on Denosumab injections 6 monthly plus calcium and vit D. It has not improved my condition, but it has got no worse over the last few years so I am basically just keeping it at bay. I will settle for that!

Thank you all.

I was diagnosed with osteoporosis about 3 years ago and I have no symptoms at all.. The problem was found when I attended a Biobank reassessment and had a Dexa scan

I was sent for another scan by my GP and prescribed Alendronic Acid for the next ten years. End of.

I have never seen a doctor about it, although I have had two brief telephone conversations with one and a letter. Then I was signed off. No follow up, no checks, nothing. I usually fall over at least once a year I have dyspraxia, which makes me clumsy and cackhanded and prone to trip over things even when I am trying to avoid them. If it wasn't for the Dexa scans I would think that my osteoporosis was another figment of medical imagination of the hospital where I used to live along with my misdiagnosed strokes.

I have it in my knees, Its more painful in the winter.

I don't think its had a go at my vertebrae (yet)
A dexa scan did say i was a very high risk of fractures, should I fall.

All i know is it is agonising, sometimes.

It is because there is a high risk of fractures, and osteoporosis in the spine causes gradual collapse of the vertebrae which is about as painful as it gets!