Bone density before and during — what my GP arranged

Started 23 August 2024 · 18 replies · 219 hearts · read 3.4k times

OttilieCheshire, UK · 23 August 2024

1.9 years ago

Bone density before and during — what my GP arranged — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

NikoTbilisi, GE

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

LucasSão Paulo, BR

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

13me too 9

OllyReading, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

OsmanAnkara, TR

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

12me too 6

BrimHalifax, UK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

EdwynNewcastle, UK

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

BertrandToulouse, FR

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

OttilieCheshire, UK

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

LucasSão Paulo, BR

#11

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

OllyReading, UK

#12

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

PietPretoria, ZA

#13

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

OsmanAnkara, TR

#14

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

7me too 3

BrimHalifax, UK

#15

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

EdwynNewcastle, UK

#16

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#17

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

27me too 7

OttilieCheshire, UK

#18

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.