About Osteoporosis

robertn31 asked:


drugs. If you’ve taking them in your life for inflammation and feel bone pain years later, you know what I’m talking about plus many articles say steroids causes it. I’m 35 and feel i have it?

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Gregg- Camp asked:


According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation( www.nof.org) : “Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks. These broken bones, also known as fractures, occur typically in the hip, spine, and wrist.”

While any bone can be affected, of special concern are fractures of the hip and spine. A hip fracture almost always requires hospitalization and major surgery. It can impair a person’s ability to walk unassisted and may cause prolonged or permanent disability or even death. Spinal or vertebral fractures also have serious consequences, including loss of height, severe back pain, and deformity.

If you look at healthy bones you will see that there are small holes between the bone cells. In osteoporosis those pores are larger making the bones brittle and easy to break. The best way to prevent osteoporosis is to prevent bone loss in the first place. In Rio Del Mar, California, there are many people who have homes there so they can easily get exercise walking on the beach. Rio Del Mar beach homes are favored by many, but one of the advantages they have over other Santa Cruz beach homes is a very nice long beach and easy access to the sand. This invites exercise which helps strengthen bones.

Children and teenagers form new bone faster than they lose the old bone. This means their bones get denser and denser until they reach what experts call peak bone mass, which happens around 20 years old. After you reach peak bone mass, the balance between bone loss and bone formation might start to change. In other words, you may slowly start to lose more bone than you form. In midlife, bone loss usually speeds up in both men and women. For most women, bone loss increases after menopause, when estrogen levels drop sharply. In fact, in the five to seven years after menopause, women can lose up to 20 percent or more of their bone density.

The best ways to prevent that massive loss of bone is to make sure you keep your calcium levels up. Taking a multivitamin can be helpful, but for menopausal/post menopausal women a higher dose of calcium may be needed. Calcium is nice on its own, but it is only part of the story. Vitamin D helps your body to absorb calcium.

The NOF recommends 1,200 mcg of calcium and 1,000 mcg of vitamin D each day. If you have a severe deficiency of vitamin D you may need to take as much as 100,000 mcg per week.

The third aspect of preventing and treating osteoporosis is exercise. Bones are like muscles– they strengthen as they are used. Here are some exercises that can be done: some are high impact and others are low impact for those who cannot do the high impact exercises.

High Impact Exercises

· High-impact aerobics

· Hiking

· Jogging/running

· Jumping Rope

· Stair climbing

· Tennis

· Dancing

Low Impact Exercises

Elliptical training machines

· Low impact aerobics

· Stair-step machines

· Walking (treadmill/outside)

The best approach to preventing osteoporosis is really three-pronged: keeping up levels of calcium, vitamin D, and exercise. Some of the calcium can be taken from your diet, so can the vitamin D. Leafy green vegetables are often good sources, such as spinach, kale and others. Exercise is a necessary evil for every age group, but is especially important for those of us who are over 50. Getting out and walking is an easy way to start your exercise. While you don’t need a Rio Del Mar beach house, to start, a walk around the block is a great way to start. You will find with more walking a greater connection to your neighbors and community. Start slowly, with your physicians’ guidance and exercise yourself to health and strength. Be sure to check out the National Osteoporosis Foundation’s website at www.nof.org for more information on this process.



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Julie asked:


What are the methods for diagnosing this bone disease and what will your doctor recommend?  These are very serious questions that might be weighing on your mind as you sit in the waiting room before you see your doctor.  Below you will find some of the diagnostic procedures explained, and hopefully you will not feel as nervous about seeing your doctor.                    

To accurately receive a diagnosis of osteoporosis, four medical practices are involved. Diagnosis consists of a physical examination, laboratory tests, medical history and, lastly, though most revealing, a bone density test. Each part of the diagnosing process plays a role in measuring the disease’s progression. This evaluation provides vital information about potential causes and the decreased amount of bone mass, as well as determining risks towards bone fractures. 

So you will clearly understand each part of the diagnosing for osteoporosis process, the following informative research defines what is involved.

Your doctor will begin the diagnosis for possible osteoporosis by asking you a number of questions. These questions will be directed towards your daily diet, and what kind of activities you normally do throughout each day. Then, your doctor will talk with you about any medications, vitamins or supplements that you may be taking. Finally, your doctor will do a thorough physical examination. This completes the medical history and physical evaluation part of the diagnosis process.

At the laboratory, a lab technician will take a sample of your blood. Next, you will be asked to give a sample of your urine. Having given the samples, your visit to the lab, for the purpose of diagnosing osteoporosis, is done. From this point, it is time for the laboratory technicians to begin their tests.

Now you have arrived at the final part of your diagnosis for osteoporosis, which is radiology. At the radiology department, a technician will be taking sophisticated and specialized X-rays of targeted bones within your body. It is through the highly technical scanning within this advanced type of X-rays that will pinpoint any signs of osteoporosis.

Over the next few days, you will be waiting to learn the results from your being tested for osteoporosis. During this time, the medical technicians are conducting and reviewing your tests, in order to provide your doctor and you with a diagnosis. The diagnosis will prove whether or not you have, or are developing osteoporosis.

Make it a priority, as a maturing woman, to schedule an appointment with your doctor for osteoporosis diagnosing. Such testing can either ensure your physical well-being.

Do you have osteoporosis or do you think you might develop osteoporosis? Living an active and healthy lifestyle can help you with osteoporosis. Don’t wait to help you body!



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Kelly asked:


I’m 25 and I have osteoporosis and always had irregular period since I got it when I was 15. I never had sex either. I do have small body frame and I was told having not a lot of body fat affects it? I do have a good diet, I don’t exercise a lot. I don’t have any out of the ordinary symptoms as I tried to look for different problems I could have. It may be possible an ovary doesn’t work. I may only get it every 2-3 months.

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