I have just been diagnosed with Osteoporosis

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It's in my left hip, and I have osteopena in my right hip. The person who interpreted the results wrote that my odds of suffering a left hip fracture is 16 percent in the next ten years, which I didn't think was too bad.

My primary care doctor, who usually tells me most of my medical issues are minor except for my severe depression and anxiety, didn't say that this time. He said he doesn't like this since I am only 63. He is starting me on generic Fosamax now. He says it takes a long time to strengthen the bones again, so it's best to be better safe than sorry.

I had no idea, I had it. My hips always hurt after riding in the car, or oddly when I'd walk through the freezer aisle in the grocery store and, stopped close to freezers to make my selection, but I just dismissed it as arthritis from an old injury.

It was actually only when my retiring podiatrist, insisted on taking an exray of my left foot when I told him I was suddenly having arch pain, that was alerted there might be an issue. He found a stress fracture which he said could mean my bones were weakening. When I alerted the nurse practitioner that the health insurance company sends to check on my ongoing conditions every 3 months, she said you need your primary care doc to order a dex-scan. Guess its good that she recommended that, because otherwise I wouldn't have known. I just get nervous taking new meds, after one of my former doctors, screwed up, and told me to take Niacin to lower my cholesterol more, not realizing that since it also lowers blood pressure, it wasn't smart to give it to me since I was already on blood pressure medication. I had to be rushed to the ER, after I passed out, and the EMT said I had stopped breathing, and no pulse. He got me back but I coded 4 times after that in the hospital that night. I did speak to a very nice pharmacist who assured me that not only do the pharmacist double check but they also now have a computer program that identifies and alerts them to potential dangerous interactions. So that made me feel a bit better. She said I don't blame you, for being scared after that, so I am glad you ask now.