http://dharmaofmoney.com/pain-in-the-ass/ Musings from a trauma suvivor, meditator, foster mom, wife, CEO, Wealth Coach, Writer, Blogger, & More Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://dharmaofmoney.com/pain-in-the-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Fern Sat, 31 May 2008 21:24:23 +0000 http://dharmaofmoney.401kmaximum.org/pain-in-the-ass/#comment-26 Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick. I hope you and your family are doing well! Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick. I hope you and your family are doing well!

]]> http://dharmaofmoney.com/pain-in-the-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Fern Sat, 31 May 2008 21:24:06 +0000 http://dharmaofmoney.401kmaximum.org/pain-in-the-ass/#comment-27 Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick. I hope you and your family are doing well! Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick. I hope you and your family are doing well!

]]> http://dharmaofmoney.com/pain-in-the-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Fern Wed, 21 May 2008 08:34:45 +0000 http://dharmaofmoney.401kmaximum.org/pain-in-the-ass/#comment-28 Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick. I hope you and your family are doing well! Thanks Susanna, and thanks to all of you who wrote. My t-score was 2.3% and I believe below 2.5% is an osteoporosis diagnosis. Since I am borderline and as you say, a lot of the machines are not calibrated well, I will try to manage this myself and retake the test in a year. I am taking Calcium and magnesium supplements and I work on with heavy weights twice a week. Hopefully that will do the trick.
I hope you and your family are doing well!

]]> http://dharmaofmoney.com/pain-in-the-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Susanna Wrangell Tue, 20 May 2008 09:07:53 +0000 http://dharmaofmoney.401kmaximum.org/pain-in-the-ass/#comment-29 I don't have personal experience with Fosamax but my friend who is a nurse and breast cancer survivor has been taking it for five years and she has experienced more bone loss this year. She is now taking a Vitamin D / Calcium supplement and doing weight /resistance training. I would do as much research as possible on alternatives to improve bone density and maybe get another test. Many machines and devices in hospitals no longer go through a preventative planned maintenance program, my blood pressure registered very high, I have never had high blood pressure, so I requested another cuff, and guess what that cuff was broken. When I went back six months later, it happened again, the doctor's office was still using that cuff!!! I was outraged. Check out Paul Pitchford's book on Healing with Whole Foods and he uses Chinese herbs, etc. He may have something you can do. Good Luck! I don’t have personal experience with Fosamax but my friend who is a nurse and breast cancer survivor has been taking it for five years and she has experienced more bone loss this year. She is now taking a Vitamin D / Calcium supplement and doing weight /resistance training. I would do as much research as possible on alternatives to improve bone density and maybe get another test. Many machines and devices in hospitals no longer go through a preventative planned maintenance program, my blood pressure registered very high, I have never had high blood pressure, so I requested another cuff, and guess what that cuff was broken.
When I went back six months later, it happened again, the doctor’s office was still using that cuff!!! I was outraged. Check out Paul Pitchford’s book on Healing with Whole Foods and he uses Chinese herbs, etc. He may have something you can do. Good Luck!

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