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I don't know if this was mentioned in earlier posts but decreasing your salt intake is very important as too much salt in your diet causes your body to lose calcium and increases bone loss.
I don't know if this was mentioned in earlier posts but decreasing your salt intake is very important as too much salt in your diet causes your body to lose calcium and increases bone loss.
If I decreased my salt intake any more it would be zero. Well, not really, but I don't put salt on anything and I don't cook with it either. I avoid most anything that is high in sodium, try to stay away from most prepared foods and frozen dinners, etc..
So, I’ll revive the thread, since I just got a call from my doctors office, after having a routine check up last week. Her nurse said the doctor decided, after reviewing my bone density test, it would be good for me to take Fosamax once a week.
I hate taking anything unless it’s absolutely necessary, and I wish the doc would have discussed it while I was there.
I said to go ahead an call it in. I’ll take it for awhile, but if I have any side effects at all, I’m quitting it. I am waiting for a knee replacement, and can barely walk, so the usual weight bearing exercises are out for now.
I have read, in various sources, that these drugs do not improve the health or strength of bones. That was also mentioned in this thread's comments. And there are side effects.
I have read, in various sources, that these drugs do not improve the health or strength of bones. That was also mentioned in this thread's comments. And there are side effects.
So explain why MDs still recommend these drugs?
Not only does my MD recommend them, she takes them herself.
I have read, in various sources, that these drugs do not improve the health or strength of bones. That was also mentioned in this thread's comments. And there are side effects.
So explain why MDs still recommend these drugs?
It's to clear to me pharma drugs = $$$$.
Bottom line, when you take the drugs, you take your chances and hope for the best. But so much info out there on them, makes me think and think.
Last edited by jaminhealth; 06-25-2018 at 12:10 PM..
I have read, in various sources, that these drugs do not improve the health or strength of bones. That was also mentioned in this thread's comments. And there are side effects.
So explain why MDs still recommend these drugs?
Why don't you go to Medical School yourself, complete a residency and fellowship THEN you can decide "not to recommend these drugs"
In the meantime, the "various sources" which you typically reference (meaning no reference at all) are meaningless, the conclusions you have have made are false (oseteoporosis treatment is effective) and there are "side effects" to NOT treating osteoporosis as in fractures....
Do you EVER read the links you post? Or do you just not understand them?
Consequently, optimizing Mg intake might represent an effective and low-cost preventive measure against osteoporosis in individuals with documented Mg deficiency, while doubts remain about supplementing the general population with the mineral since too much Mg seems to have detrimental effects on the bone
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