lower back pain osteopenia
What exactly is osteopenia? What medications are prescribed?
I am a chronic pain patient with chronic osteoarthritis in all parties except by the shoulders, neuropathy in the leg and lower back, and DDD. New MRI showed osteopenia, among other things, but I understand. Curiously, however what happens to me, my calcium test are always great. Thank you.
Osteopenia is a thinning of the bones, and is the step before osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a disease disabling, because the bones are so thin, they break and do not heal quickly. Remember the stories of little old women who fall and break a hip? Generally break a hip and then fall. You should get more calcium and vitamin D. The blood never show a low value of calcium, unless something is very, very bad. Our bones are the storage of necessity in the bloodstream and tissues. The body maintains the blood calcium level very closely controlled by the parathyroid gland. Do you wake up with cramps on the back of the legs in the middle of the night? If so, that is a symptom of low body calcium. You should get a calcium / vitamin D pills. I like Caltrate, or a generic brand like that. It comes in a chewable form which eash to take. You need 1200 to 1500 mg of calcium daily. Take one tablet in the morning and one before bed. Me also suggest a tablet of extra vitamin D to add up to about 2000 IU per day. You will have some pills with calcium, so add the amount you get with that, and then buy another tablet vitamin D3 to a total of about 2000 IU per day. You may also need medication for osteoporosis, such as Fosamax or Boniva. They help keep the bone you have, so that more can add up to begin to get denser bones again.
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