Bones!

Hi, well here is todays concern. Osteoporosis.

I have a work colleague who has this bad and she puts it down to her hysterectomy twenty years ago. She has been iffy with my decision on surgery and today said you may feel better but osteoporosis will get you and it is painful. Then I meet someone who had the op ten years ago and not looked back and my mum in law who had it some 35 odd years ago and is fine too!

I already have back problems and although the surgery is meant to help a majority of the pain I am worried deep down that she is right and I am going to end up in more pain. I intend to keep on a balanced diet and extra calcium etc but just wondered what everyone else thinks and does it worry you at all?

Am I just going nuts with the waiting - inbetween them darned hot flushes

The reason that I worry (and I will tell my doc) is that when I was a teenager I was anorexic so much so that my periods ceased for five years. I know that this can increase risk of joint problems etc. because I was a silly old moo who was just depressed over various things.

Extra calcium? I have heard that eating prunes helps, has anyone heard this one?

Hi There Looby Loo s,

I had asked the very same question. My PCP advised me that osteoporosis is usually hereditary. At least the degree of it. There are several girls who have shared their histories of anorexia with all of us. Hopefully one of them will have the answer to that part of your question.

Being a nature chic, I found THIS particular chart for you to read. These are some natural sources of consumable calcium.

http://www.medify.com/pat_info/osteo...m/natural.html

There you go! Hope this helps.

Much Love,
AnnieWoof

Hello looby loo
my mom had her hsyterectomy at 50 years old..she is 81 now ..she doesn't have problems with osteo. I agree it has to do with heredity, eating well and excersise. Mom is still in her own home, driving and working 5 days a week! On weekends you just about have to make an appointment with her to catch her at home. She along with my sisters will be taking care of me.
Everyone is different, if there is osteo in your family talk with your doctor about a plan that will work for you. There are also alot of ways to get the calcium we all need. I am also a "nature chick" but again we are all different....do not let one persons negitivity scare you, instead ask her what she did to combat the problem?
Best of luck to you and may God bless you

I had my LAVH/BSO in March at age 34. My doctor has stressed weight bearing exercise, getting adequate calcium in supplements, and I'm getting a bone density scan this week, to be repeated every 2 years, I think. If my bone density decreases, I will be put on a bone building agent.

Thanks for your posts. I also think that a positive attitude helps as well and my friend at work is having difficulty in coming to terms with her problem with what made worse when she fell and fractured her spine.

It does not run in my family. My nanna is nearly 102 and my mum will be 78 this year. Not healthy 100 percent but no bone problems.

So fingers crossed for that one then!

Looby

I have had back pain and problems since I was a kid and fell through a ceiling onto a garage floor.

I had a ruptured disc and surgery with some shattered pelvic bone removed when I was in my 30's. At the time the doc said it was arthritis. But I remained active, had a few bouts of spasms with the bed rest for 10 days-only one of two times over the past 20 years.

I had a bone density test last year, and I had such good density I was more than 3 standard deviations above the norm. But the OB/GYN said that was good and bad news. That estrogen is good for bone density, but bad for fibroids.

I have extra hip and back pain before my periods, so I know most of this pain is from enlarged uterus that puts more pressure on my nerves and other organs.

I lift weights and do flexibility stretches, I exercise 4 to 5 times a week with a variety of things, take vitamins and calcium and think I do pretty good. The doc I have now said I do not show more than the normal amount of arthritic changes on my x-rays.

I too am worried about this, I keep thinking I am having this because of pelvic pain, tugging and pulling, hip pain, and what if I go through all of this, and the pain was from something else?

One GYN told me he didn't think the lower back pain would get a lot better. One told me he thought it would.
I guess I will never get enough information to know whether this is a good decision. I think some people will blame any surgery they have on future problems, some may be right and some may not be.