Re: when does weight come back? For June/Osteopenia

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June, are you taking vit. D3? I, too, HAD osteopenia due to an inability to use

dairy as well as diarrhea related to all calcium supplements (found one and an

enzyme that now work for me). 2000 IUs a day and a little exercise mad my

density went up enough in one year to take me into the normal range. My 83 yr.

old mom (who DOES dairy but, I suspect, shouldn't!!) taking 4000 IUs/day in that

year went from osteoporosis to osteopenia w/ NO weight-bearing exercise!!

Artful Carol

P.S. - And the thyroid/bone doc who told me 5 yrs. ago that I was wrong thinking

that there are healthier ways to build bone, that the only way to do it was meds

like Boniva and the like - which I didn't want to take - is having to ADVERTISE

for patients! 'Course, her terrible " bedside manner " could have something to do

w/ it, too... but I get a charge every time I hear her advertisement on radio

or t.v.

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> Hi all,

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> I was always 130 pounds my whole life at 5'8 " . Now I weigh 120. I am more

worried about the osteopenia I have in my lumbar spine, more so than the weight.

I would like to be at least 125, then I wouldn't look so gaunt.

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> Thanks,

> June