Osteoporosis
 

does anyone have it and has anyone had a spinal compression fracture ... If so what treatment was sought .

Hi razzle,
As well as posting here, you might also find some older posts in the

Spinal Disorders and Back Pain Forum

There are quite a lot of older posts there too if you search "osteoporosis" in that forum.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/search.php

I have been there and not much responses . thanks

hi Razzle

Try this link http://www.orthogate,org/patient-edu...fractures.html.

hope you find it.

Synnove

That is a bad connection. Can you come back and fix please.

Donna

try this.

http://www.orthogate.org/patient-edu...fractures.html

thank you for the article very helpful

Hi Razz, I did reply and noticed I was the only one, not sure of you saw it, here is my reply below. Possibly not enough to help you I'm afraid. I should add my compression fractures 2 years down the track still give me grief, I incurred another 12 months ago as well. My spine has been likened to honeycomb, just crumbling :(:(

Where are your fractures? My first one was T5 moving a heavy item, it hurt but as I always have back pain paid no attention to it, the following year I had a seizure and fractured T3,4&6. The pain was excruciating and sadly it took them months to work out what was wrong. After many tests they also advised I have osteopenia, it's before becoming osteoporosis.

Treatment wise, I was too far gone in the fractures for them to do anything. Vertebroplasty can be done if caught early enough, ie before the fracture heals itself. Other than that, rest, ice and heat packs and pain meds.

So I went back on HRT and will also begin again taking calcium and vitamin D supplements. I haven't taken the supplements for a sustained period as they are very expensive and with all my other medical costs & medication I let these slide. But today, reading your question prompted me to read up on it again and I realise I need to take these supplements and can go without something else.

I hope you are doing as well as you can and are getting treatment

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Originally Posted by razzle51
has anybody had and what was the best treatment .. this is from Osthporsis

Pamela thanks for response ... Sounds like me to a tea , but my pain has been going on now almost 7 yrs and nobody would help me find it..... I will not go back on HRT I had way to many utis dr said to get me off now ... I hope they can put in the glue ... or it may be too late ..... apt with dr is next Monday after next to see what dr says is going on .. I bet anything I have more than one fracture ..... then see my dr the same day ....she wants me to start on those fancy infusions but I have sooooooooo many side effects I don't think it will work ..I do that my dexa a scan came back very very bad ... I do already take Vitd ... need calcilum ..... thanks for responding .. I will try to send you a private message if you accept... ROZ

my reading was spine 4.7 and neck 3.4

she I am not a canidate for supplements cause constipation and I have IBS C
big time ...

so we might try Prolia one shot every 6 months