Bone density scan.... anyone ?

[ebikeerwidnes]

I had one last year due to smashing up my pelvis. Couldn't get readings off my broken areas (spine and pelvis) as the bone gets stronger from a break. Happy to report bone density was excellent and above average for my age.

Worth getting done as we age. Friend's wife didn't realise she had osteoporosis until she fell in the garden and broke her hip. Hasn't healed well at all

Yes - best to check before things are a problem than deal with teh consequences later on

mostly anyway
a few jabs with a needle and lying on a table while a machine does something is a small thing compared to the problems once they crop up

 

[fossyant]

Yes - best to check before things are a problem than deal with teh consequences later on

mostly anyway
a few jabs with a needle and lying on a table while a machine does something is a small thing compared to the problems once they crop up

No jabs these days. It's like a moving xray machine. Very quick.

 

[mickle]

A lady i did some work for had a hysterectomy many years ago after cervical cancer. No one thought to suggest HRT. And so her vertebrae started collapsing and now she's in a wheelchair.

 

[postman]

All the best sir.

 

[toffee]

Had a scan couple of month's ago due to a fall i had in which I broke a vertebrae. Walking distances is now an issue but cycling is not affected.

The result showed i had reduced bone density. Had fallow up blood tests for calcium levels.

 

[slowmotion]

I was offered one a few years ago and took it. It might have been because I was taking a number of medications . Anyway, I got a brief report saying that there was a reasonably small chance of some kind of bone related crisis in the next fifteen years.