I bought a smart scale that measures bone density. I’m using to track my weight, hydration, and fat levels. This scale says that I have average bone density. And that my visceral is 1 percent.
My friend told me I needed to be scanned in order to determine my bone density. I told her that I’d take a hard pass as I did not believe it was necessary. She got completely upset with me.
And this is what I do not understand. It’s not only the medical community, it’s all your friends and family too.
After having doctors tell me that I was suffering from old age and that I should learn to manage/live with chronic fatigue, arthritis, and other health issues…. I fired them all. Took control of my own health.
I’m about four years into my journey and I’ve cured what doctors told me couldn’t be cured through diet and exercise.
So funny, I had to go see doctor to get paper work signed for comfort animal. Doc tried and tried to talk me into test. He told test were needed because I had not had any for four years.
I asked him he had even look at my records. He had the records in his hands. Then I asked him if he recognized me? He looked at me perplexed. I connected the dots for him. Reminded him of that old age comment. He was floored. Then said that I needed to be tested now more than ever because of what he considered rapid change. I declined and thanked him for all his help. He’s the only MD in my small little town.
He never once asked me how I turned it all around. He wasn’t interested. And if I thought he’d work with me, I might have let him do all the blood test. However, he didn’t help me when I needed it the most. He actually caused me to almost give up and resign myself to life in the recliner. But, he may of actually saved me with that old age comment, because that comment probably pissed me off. I was only 58 at the time.
I eventually got a second opinion. Had to travel to get it. I ended up having two tick borne illnesses and one was attacking my red blood cells and I had it for over a year according to antibody test.
After I got the tick illnesses cleared, I concentrated on diet and exercise and gratitude.
I’m back to my old self. Very active. Happy and healthy.
I appreciate you sharing your story here, it highlights our biggest problem and challenge as individuals, as parents and as a whole. We have been taught to no longer trust our bodies or our own minds; intuition & will. Thank you for showing this need to take back our power, will & hope ❤️
At 89, I used to fall ~monthly due to dizziness. Rather than using a cane/walker/? I went to Dr. Ana Mihalcea's chelation treatment in Yelm, WA USA to slowly remove metals from my body. Now 91, the dizziness is gone and I haven't fallen in 6 months. Yelm is a 150 mile r.t. for me and Medicade/Medicare does NOT cover the treatment, but the ~$4,000.oo cost so far is worth the time/$. Dr. Ana needs world wide locations for the chelation.
I beat a decades-old Nexium con by accident. I'd been looking at the Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother's for weight, as I'd hit 177 lb. The first 5 lbs was a bout of food poisoning from Pleez coating on a Heritage orange. As a Type 2, BS control had to be considered. Today I weighed 127.8. A year's journey on how to eat as 'clean' as I could. I'm about 80/20 on that. Seed oils are gone; I've read labels for a long time. Learning to look up terms I am not familiar with.
Biden's runation on our economy sent me back to gardening and more canning. This weather Modification is playing havoc on that plan and our Farmers.
My A1C has been steady at 6-6.4 for nearly 9 months now. I began adding a spoon of local honey, and fresh low-cal 100% juices, I made or were from seeded watermelon. It's Strawberry season in Tennessee, and as I can my jams, I have leftover Cane Sugar juice. I put in a Mason jar for the fridge. The 2 mixed taste good, not too sweet.
Jaw bone loss is more my issue, despite the Gram of Calcium Citrate for decades. OA, thumb surgery, and a clean broken wrist leave my hands stiff and painful, not as agile.
my mum broke her hip and was given an osteoporosis diagnosis that later became medically induced as they realised it was long term steroids usage that they hadnt been monitoring .
the consultant said it was because they didn't support her during with alendronic acid. which turns out to stop the clasts breaking down the old bone and leaving it to become brittle instead. so she'd have still ended up braking something.
I've had her eating better since and they did take another dexa, stating they expected to see a huge deterioration. The result was actually slightly better than the one they took during the hik replacement.
so I'm hopeful that we're doing the right things as they have her the horror story of the other hip going very soon. however that was now around 7 yrs ago.
We will keep doing what we're doing.
oh also they tried methotrexate and one of the drugs with "nub" on the end. she was violently ill. Had uncontrollable running bowel movements. I was there helping her after the op. she was so distressed that I had to help her in that way. I'd do anything to help her, and I was glad I was there as at times during this, I wasn't sure she wanted to go on.
it was an absolutely awful time, the drugs to blame for everything and all of her teeth fell out, alone with heavy cataracts from the drugs.
in regards to stomach acid, we have had this in the family and misdiagnosed as high acid. I told the GP my body was forcing the food back up when she put me on these. She couldn't understand it. seems simple to me, the body had no way to break it down and forced it back.
IBS symptoms increased as well, it was awful.
took me a while to work out it was low acid and went on to supplements. Once the body gets the correct nutrients the stomach acid should then increase. so low stomach acid is nutrient deficiency not aging.
I only now need to use them when I feel sluggish and that normally when. I see stress,stress reduces SA as the body is in flight or fight, it doesn't digest when it things it might have to run from a threat.
My wife (age 79) has 5-6 fractures in her back in two separate places. We don't know what has caused this as there was no obvious fall or physical accounting. She had been on Prolia for 5-6 years (stopped a year ago) as she was told she had osteoporosis and scoliosis. Maybe her dexa scores were better over the years but what does that mean? Apparently nothing.
She broke a few bones in each hand over a 16 month period from falls (2023-24) and so I wonder if here bones were really that much stronger. I am 75 and have never had any broken or cracked bones and I have taken some good spills. After reading up on some of this, I am convinced that bone drugs and dexa score are useless. I am trying to convince her.
She is going to have kyphoplasty over the next 4 weeks. The pain drugs might stop some of the pain but have wrecked her innards somewhat. I know there are risks with any procedure but if she can get back to somewhat normal, we hope to use exercise and diet to help in the future.
I know the neurosurgeon is going to want her to go to her PCP for another dexa scan. The only reason they do these scans is to get you on drugs. It's either if your bones are looking good they want you on drugs for prevention or it will be your bones don't look so good so you need to be on drugs. It's all 100% BS.
When you are living the fist 40-50-60 years, did you need bone drugs to stay healthy? NO. Why now? Money, money and more money. Most doctors are donut holes looking for a donut.
Your terrific osteoporosis article summaries what has taken me +40 years to figure out. I agree completely. GREAT JOB!
Nevertheless, there is one improvement that I feel is needed. You deservedly bad mouth the inaccurate results of DEXA scans being pandered to jack up drug sales. BUT, you offer no alternative when there is a really good one: trabecular bone scan (TBS), which is a software package that will run on most DEXA scanners to vastly improve the accuracy of diagnostics. My osteopenia diagnosis of 40 years disappeared with a TBS scan and reflects my real-world experience. My advice is to find an imaging center that offers TBS and replace DEXA with it.
I bought a smart scale that measures bone density. I’m using to track my weight, hydration, and fat levels. This scale says that I have average bone density. And that my visceral is 1 percent.
My friend told me I needed to be scanned in order to determine my bone density. I told her that I’d take a hard pass as I did not believe it was necessary. She got completely upset with me.
And this is what I do not understand. It’s not only the medical community, it’s all your friends and family too.
After having doctors tell me that I was suffering from old age and that I should learn to manage/live with chronic fatigue, arthritis, and other health issues…. I fired them all. Took control of my own health.
I’m about four years into my journey and I’ve cured what doctors told me couldn’t be cured through diet and exercise.
So funny, I had to go see doctor to get paper work signed for comfort animal. Doc tried and tried to talk me into test. He told test were needed because I had not had any for four years.
I asked him he had even look at my records. He had the records in his hands. Then I asked him if he recognized me? He looked at me perplexed. I connected the dots for him. Reminded him of that old age comment. He was floored. Then said that I needed to be tested now more than ever because of what he considered rapid change. I declined and thanked him for all his help. He’s the only MD in my small little town.
He never once asked me how I turned it all around. He wasn’t interested. And if I thought he’d work with me, I might have let him do all the blood test. However, he didn’t help me when I needed it the most. He actually caused me to almost give up and resign myself to life in the recliner. But, he may of actually saved me with that old age comment, because that comment probably pissed me off. I was only 58 at the time.
I eventually got a second opinion. Had to travel to get it. I ended up having two tick borne illnesses and one was attacking my red blood cells and I had it for over a year according to antibody test.
After I got the tick illnesses cleared, I concentrated on diet and exercise and gratitude.
I’m back to my old self. Very active. Happy and healthy.
I appreciate you sharing your story here, it highlights our biggest problem and challenge as individuals, as parents and as a whole. We have been taught to no longer trust our bodies or our own minds; intuition & will. Thank you for showing this need to take back our power, will & hope ❤️
You'd make a better doc than 90% of those idiots pretending to be one.
At 89, I used to fall ~monthly due to dizziness. Rather than using a cane/walker/? I went to Dr. Ana Mihalcea's chelation treatment in Yelm, WA USA to slowly remove metals from my body. Now 91, the dizziness is gone and I haven't fallen in 6 months. Yelm is a 150 mile r.t. for me and Medicade/Medicare does NOT cover the treatment, but the ~$4,000.oo cost so far is worth the time/$. Dr. Ana needs world wide locations for the chelation.
A Patient Cured is a Patient Lost.
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I beat a decades-old Nexium con by accident. I'd been looking at the Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother's for weight, as I'd hit 177 lb. The first 5 lbs was a bout of food poisoning from Pleez coating on a Heritage orange. As a Type 2, BS control had to be considered. Today I weighed 127.8. A year's journey on how to eat as 'clean' as I could. I'm about 80/20 on that. Seed oils are gone; I've read labels for a long time. Learning to look up terms I am not familiar with.
Biden's runation on our economy sent me back to gardening and more canning. This weather Modification is playing havoc on that plan and our Farmers.
My A1C has been steady at 6-6.4 for nearly 9 months now. I began adding a spoon of local honey, and fresh low-cal 100% juices, I made or were from seeded watermelon. It's Strawberry season in Tennessee, and as I can my jams, I have leftover Cane Sugar juice. I put in a Mason jar for the fridge. The 2 mixed taste good, not too sweet.
Jaw bone loss is more my issue, despite the Gram of Calcium Citrate for decades. OA, thumb surgery, and a clean broken wrist leave my hands stiff and painful, not as agile.
Great Article.
my mum broke her hip and was given an osteoporosis diagnosis that later became medically induced as they realised it was long term steroids usage that they hadnt been monitoring .
the consultant said it was because they didn't support her during with alendronic acid. which turns out to stop the clasts breaking down the old bone and leaving it to become brittle instead. so she'd have still ended up braking something.
I've had her eating better since and they did take another dexa, stating they expected to see a huge deterioration. The result was actually slightly better than the one they took during the hik replacement.
so I'm hopeful that we're doing the right things as they have her the horror story of the other hip going very soon. however that was now around 7 yrs ago.
We will keep doing what we're doing.
oh also they tried methotrexate and one of the drugs with "nub" on the end. she was violently ill. Had uncontrollable running bowel movements. I was there helping her after the op. she was so distressed that I had to help her in that way. I'd do anything to help her, and I was glad I was there as at times during this, I wasn't sure she wanted to go on.
it was an absolutely awful time, the drugs to blame for everything and all of her teeth fell out, alone with heavy cataracts from the drugs.
no one should have to go through this.
Oh I'm still listening,she also ended up with a graves disease diagnosis… nearly died…. Went into thyroid storm….
in regards to stomach acid, we have had this in the family and misdiagnosed as high acid. I told the GP my body was forcing the food back up when she put me on these. She couldn't understand it. seems simple to me, the body had no way to break it down and forced it back.
IBS symptoms increased as well, it was awful.
took me a while to work out it was low acid and went on to supplements. Once the body gets the correct nutrients the stomach acid should then increase. so low stomach acid is nutrient deficiency not aging.
I only now need to use them when I feel sluggish and that normally when. I see stress,stress reduces SA as the body is in flight or fight, it doesn't digest when it things it might have to run from a threat.
so again, symptom of the environment we are in
My wife (age 79) has 5-6 fractures in her back in two separate places. We don't know what has caused this as there was no obvious fall or physical accounting. She had been on Prolia for 5-6 years (stopped a year ago) as she was told she had osteoporosis and scoliosis. Maybe her dexa scores were better over the years but what does that mean? Apparently nothing.
She broke a few bones in each hand over a 16 month period from falls (2023-24) and so I wonder if here bones were really that much stronger. I am 75 and have never had any broken or cracked bones and I have taken some good spills. After reading up on some of this, I am convinced that bone drugs and dexa score are useless. I am trying to convince her.
She is going to have kyphoplasty over the next 4 weeks. The pain drugs might stop some of the pain but have wrecked her innards somewhat. I know there are risks with any procedure but if she can get back to somewhat normal, we hope to use exercise and diet to help in the future.
I know the neurosurgeon is going to want her to go to her PCP for another dexa scan. The only reason they do these scans is to get you on drugs. It's either if your bones are looking good they want you on drugs for prevention or it will be your bones don't look so good so you need to be on drugs. It's all 100% BS.
When you are living the fist 40-50-60 years, did you need bone drugs to stay healthy? NO. Why now? Money, money and more money. Most doctors are donut holes looking for a donut.
Your terrific osteoporosis article summaries what has taken me +40 years to figure out. I agree completely. GREAT JOB!
Nevertheless, there is one improvement that I feel is needed. You deservedly bad mouth the inaccurate results of DEXA scans being pandered to jack up drug sales. BUT, you offer no alternative when there is a really good one: trabecular bone scan (TBS), which is a software package that will run on most DEXA scanners to vastly improve the accuracy of diagnostics. My osteopenia diagnosis of 40 years disappeared with a TBS scan and reflects my real-world experience. My advice is to find an imaging center that offers TBS and replace DEXA with it.
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