I was diagnosed with this abiut 6 months ago. It came completely out of the blue and was found by chance.
I have no symptoms, beyond slightly more than the usually loss of height with age and I have never broken a bone and I have a weak ankle which I go over on it and quite often end up flat on my face. I taught myself to fall safely years ago, but as I said, I have never broken a bone
Since my diagnosis like Bluebelle, I have been continuing to do the things I have always done, climbing ladders pruning the wisteria and painting the outside of the house and standing on step stools and library stools to reach to the tops of cupboards
No one has given me any advice of any kind beyond advising me to take a Vitamin D supplement, which I already did.
Personally, I would avoid calcium supplements they are not absorbed half as well as calcium in food. I now supplement my calcium by snacking on 2 low fat mini Baby bel cheeses each day. Each contains only about 40 calories and contains 20 % of the recommended daily requirement for calcium. Two of them are well under 100 calories nd give you 20% ofthe recommended daily calcium intake.
Is this behaviour appropriate.
British Media. Let’s have a change please!


