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As you're around I would be grateful for your advice. I have been contacted today by my surgery following a letter from the hospital requiring further tests. One of them is a bone density scan. I have never heard of this, as far as I am aware I have no problems with my bones. What is this supposed to indicate and should I be unduly concerned?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A DEXA (bone density scan) measures your bone mineral density. It will tell you if your bone density is in the normal range, osteopaenic range or osteoporotic range.
Women are more prone to osteoporosis / osteopaenia than men, but risk factors for men are drinking, smoking, long-term steroids, low dietary calcium, hypovitaminosis D (low vitamin D), lack of exercise and coeliac disease and others.
What recent tests have you had done and do you know the results?
Women are more prone to osteoporosis / osteopaenia than men, but risk factors for men are drinking, smoking, long-term steroids, low dietary calcium, hypovitaminosis D (low vitamin D), lack of exercise and coeliac disease and others.
What recent tests have you had done and do you know the results?
JD, I note your past medical history and certainly you have risk factors for osteoporosis, but I am still not sure how you came to receive an invitation from the hospital to undergo a bone density scan.
We're you previously referred for further investigations? Has this been prompted by the results of preliminary investigations or is this something to do with your previous fractures?
We're you previously referred for further investigations? Has this been prompted by the results of preliminary investigations or is this something to do with your previous fractures?
I had a bds after I had fractured my tib and fib back in 1998 and then falling and fracturing my wrist when I was out walking my dogs in 2009.
They diagnosed, osteoporosis and I’ve been on calcium tablets ever since.
I was, taking another drug which in can’t recall it’s name but, I was told I had ostenecrosis in my jaw when a bit of it snapped off and protruded out of my gum. I stopped taking that drug and now just have the calcium tablets.
It’s no big deal, jackdaw. Just be careful and don’t fall over.
Keep ha’ad, as we say up here. X
They diagnosed, osteoporosis and I’ve been on calcium tablets ever since.
I was, taking another drug which in can’t recall it’s name but, I was told I had ostenecrosis in my jaw when a bit of it snapped off and protruded out of my gum. I stopped taking that drug and now just have the calcium tablets.
It’s no big deal, jackdaw. Just be careful and don’t fall over.
Keep ha’ad, as we say up here. X