Sorry Billye, you say your doctors did everything and nothing was preventable. I was astonounded when my bone guy's nurse told me that giving vitamin 20,000 Units every 2 weeks prevents osteoporosis in patients on prednisone.

I've just googled on the phrase.Is Steroid-Induced Osteoporosis Preventable?

It seems that the main mechanism for osteoporosis with prednisone is that absorption of calcium frm the gut is inhibited, so calcium leaches out of bone. Increasing absorption by loading with vitamin D and calcium is key. Nobody told me that when I was on prdnisone. They just put me on fosamax.

The question would be then, given how low your Vitamin D level was last month, how did the doctors let it get low, when there are a million articles on how important it is to keep it up in patients on prednisone. Mine was never checked either.

I'm quite fed up with medicine.