Dexa bone scan

Fine. it just puzzles me that it conflicts with how we consume this specific vitamn and mineral in real life.

If anyone is interested in the benefits of Vit D and its decrease with age this is very informative www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669834/#:~:text=Optimal%20vitamin%20D%20levels%20are,

I have osteoporosis of the spine and osteopenia of the hip. I have several vertebral compression fractures as well as one of the bones that come from the side of the vertebra, I’ll have to look up the name for it. I remember what caused that one, simply getting up from a chair and knocking my leg lightly against a footstool.

This morning I bent to pick up a sock from the floor and had a sudden severe pain in my lower back which I suspect is another fracture.

I take alendronic acid once a week as well as Vit D and calcium supplements.

I was sent for a DEXA scan after having two fractures in two years following falls. I was very confident about the results as they’d both healed so quickly and well that one consultant said I must have “good bones”. So I was gobsmacked when the results showed that far from having the bones of a 20 year old, I had osteopenia, very close to the osteoporosis level. I’ve been on Calci-D tablets for 18 months since then and had a follow up scan yesterday. I’m heartened by those of you who’ve had better results after taking calcium and vitamin D supplements, and am really hoping my old bones might have improved as well.

MissAdventure

I always felt the vitamin D made me sick.
I mean vomit, by the way.

Is that something anyone else found, too?

The Calci-D tablets made me very nauseous at first, MissA, but my GP told me to persevere and it stopped after a week or so. I’ve no problem at all with them now.

Osteopenia at 71 is pretty great. After having breast cancer twice, I was diagnosed with that in my early fifties. I now have osteoporosis in certain places but I do not take any of the medication. I suggest that you keep away from calcium carbonate as the body does not absorb it very well. Stay with calcium citrate or some other calcium. You also need magnesium along with the vitamin D. I'm hanging in there I had a dexa last year and my bones did not get any worse. Hope this helps.

I already take a magnesium capsule at night and a vitamin D capsule in the morning, but after reading the advice on this thread, I am considering getting these…
And I’m going to have to ask advice about whether I should discontinue taking my previous doses of these vitamins and just take this one capsule or if it’s okay to finish them off and add this to them?

I have been diagnosed with calcium deposits in my veins to my heart when I had a lung health check for cancer which happily was negative. I take high doses of vitamin D with calcium for osteoporosis. Is this connected?

Happygirl79

I have been diagnosed with calcium deposits in my veins to my heart when I had a lung health check for cancer which happily was negative. I take high doses of vitamin D with calcium for osteoporosis. Is this connected?

Would it not be better to ask your clinician to explain this?

My late BIL, who had been treated for various cancers for nearly forty years, also had this.

I have osteoporosis lost six inches in height, 10 broken vertebrae and my ribs now sit inside my hips.
My question is to those who’ve lost height-did anything happen to your insides? Just lately I get this quivering which seems to be my intestines.
Has this ever happened to anyone else?