Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Have you been diagnosed with osteopenia? If so, you may very well be taking drugs to head off what you believe is the inexorable slide into osteoporosis. Maybe you’re on Boniva, or Fosamax, or Actonel to keep that T-score from dropping. After all, by preventing further bone loss, you’re p...
Hi PJ it does seem strange to treat all normal bone loss the same way. If you just look at a T-score you're missing a lot. You don't know if someone has a secondary cause, if they're taking meds that cause osteoporosis or if they have a history of fractures. If we start to look at risk factors along with T-scores I think the numbers of those being treated will decline. T-scores alone should not be the determining factor for treatment of normal age-related bone loss. Osteopenia is not a disease, and a dx of this doesn't guarantee that you'll fracture.
Correct, Pam. A diagosis of Osteoporosis also does not guarantee a fracture.
There are just too many other factors involved to be able to guarantee anything,
Revital
Hi Revital, you're also correct and I sort of figured that everyone would apply the same logic for osteoporosis dx's too, and that it doesn't gaurantee you'll sustain a fracture when you receive one of these either.
I actually don't think you can even use the word gaurantee, because we all know that's impossible to say about something like this, there are just too many variables involved in dx's and fractures and whether they'll happen or not.
Take Care...