My mother had severe osteoporosis and vertebral fractures in her 80s before she died. I progressed to osteoporosis at age 58. I was my mother's caregiver in her late years and found through her many doctor visits that she had a parathyroid condition that contributed to her condition.
How common are parathyroid disorders which would lead to/ increase the risk of osteoporosis? I have a physical soon and plan to ask if I should have some kind of test to check this out.
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Dear Hamel,
Many thanks for the wonderful article. I am sure glad you mentioned over-exercising with little nutrition -- which could lead to a loss of nutrients and thus loss of calcium from the bones. Although you applied this to women -- but it can also happen in men. I think this is what happened in my case since a very young age when I used to go to school on faraway mountains in India.
I would just walk and walk and walk and get exhausted and then have little appetite to eat, plus I hated the site of milk. And this despite the fact that I grew up in an affluent family where food was never a problem. In later years I was always underweight and may even be so now at 115 lbs and 5 ft 7 in height.
In later years I tried to make up for all the milk I had not taken all my life-- but I did not take any Vit D nor ever went out in the sunshine. It was too late.
Maybe that is why in 2007 I discovered I had osteopenia bordering on osteoporosis!
I thank you for alerting people to the danger of overdoing exercise and cutting down on nutrients -- in my case food itself!!
Thank you so much,
Yours,
Priya
Priya, I hope your osteopenia stalls right where it is, and doesn't turn into full-blown osteoporosis. Thanks for the kind words - PJH