Wait until you hit 50. That's when the fun really starts.

Will somebody please get Granny her teeth? Wheel of Fortune is gonna be on soon and she can't yell at Pat Sajak coherently without 'em.
 
Any chance the doctor's a quack? What about a 2nd opinion?

Really sorry to hear this. Hopefully more and more advances will be made with treatment before your symptoms  get too bad.

Hang in there and don't  let anger consume you. We like thebpositive person you are and woukd hate for that to go away.

Have they given you a mg amount of how much calcium you have to take per day? What about vitamin D, have they given you a dosage? Most calcium supplements come with vitamin D these days. I have heard of people getting osteoporosis relatively young. I believe that some form of low impact exercise (like walking) is good for it too. If you're going to get some supplements then look on Amazon because it's way cheaper!

bayoubill
Don't worry too much about it Beeps. There are treatments(pills) that will take care of it with some dietary changes. Btw, going by my last Doc visit apparently I Am a 90 year old chupacabra

 
I'm sorting out the cost factor. If things go the way I would like this will be a complete non issue. It will just take time and effort. If they do not go as planned... well I'll be f*cked until I can come up with a better plan.
 
The good news is I'm not dying which was a concern. This is workable. BTW, if I had not already wished you good luck and health already I do. I have seen some of your woes of late and you have been in my thoughts. Best to ya.
 

sharke
Have they given you a mg amount of how much calcium you have to take per day? What about vitamin D, have they given you a dosage? Most calcium supplements come with vitamin D these days. I have heard of people getting osteoporosis relatively young. I believe that some form of low impact exercise (like walking) is good for it too. If you're going to get some supplements then look on Amazon because it's way cheaper!

The exact numbers are somewhat forthcoming aside from the vit D. That is 4000iu per day in liquid form diluted into the massive pile of milk I need to drink. I had been taking 1000iu of vit D per day in caplet form but I guess that ain't nearly enough.
 
I will look at online distros and thank you fro the idea. Amazon.ca REALLY sucks compared to the US version though so I'm probaly better of just talking to my regular pharmacist (and they deliver free which is great).

Thanks, Rain. I'll nail this. Just really took me off guard. I expected it wouldn't be great but damn... literally old lady levels. Fookin' pathetic.
 
Cheers.

Good news is... now you can try on that blue & white dress everyone's been talking about. Or was it black & gold?

Gramma Beep? 

Beepster
Well the treatment is a massive influx of calcium, Vit D, magnesium, protein and I'm assuming medically supervised weight lifting.
 
Now that I know what the hell is going on you can be guaranteed I am going to go absolutely apef*ck on this in any way I can. Unfortunately there are those in society (yes... even Canadian society) who would rather people like me erode or outright kill myself before giving me a chance to become a tax paying citizen again... but screw those pricks.
 
This will be hard but now I know what the goal is. My anger will fuel me. Just hope I don't shatter into a pile of dust in the meantime.
 
Thank you all for the well wishes and sorry for the whinage. Just needed to vent a bit.
 
Cheers.

 
Good luck Beeps. Do whatever you can to hold it back. My mother (85) has osteoporosis despite a good diet and an active lifestyle.

Truly sorry to hear that, Beeps.
 
I was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis a few years ago (in my mid forties).  After extensive tests and treatments, I now have yearly biophosphate infusions ( not overly pleasant), and my last scan showed an improvement, so there may be hope.
 
Good luck, my friend.

Careful with all that dairy though. You don't want to clog your arteries up on top of everything else 
 
 

My wife's grandmother used to give me some sage advice. "Never grow up to be an old lady," she'd tell me. I'd just laugh it off. I mean, that's highly unlikely, right? What are the odds that I would ever grow up?
 
Anyway, I hope you feel better soon. Bones. Without them, we'd be jellyfish. That's not quite as much fun as you might think. Hang in there, Beeps.

Hi, guys. Kind of being a bit of an Eyore today I guess as I process this ("Woe is me. I lost my tail. Eee Haw. Wah wah. Blah blah."). Hopefully I'll get it out of my system today and get on with it. Again the well wishes are definitely appreciated and really this, although not cool, is not as bad as things could be. I was more concerned about my bloodwork (kidneys/liver/etc) and that thankfully turned out fine. This just really took me by surprise for some reason and is going to cost money which is what is stressing me out. I have put the appropriate pokers in the fire and it should work out but it's a waiting game now which drives me nuts. In fact if even one of the multitude of things I have set up over the past few years pans out everything becomes instantly "okay" so... fingers crossed.
 
I have a lot of friends in the meatworld but really I don't keep in contact as much because all this is very embarrassing to me and I don't like worrying them or dragging them down. I don't really discuss this much here either I guess but in a lot of ways you all have become my inner circle and just helping me wrap my head around this fancy schmancy music production stuff has been a great distraction from my frustrating existence. With any luck it'll turn into a viable career at some point but even if I only just get to unleash the noise in my head and toss it out into the world that's something.
 
So, thanks for being there and putting up with my nubile ways. Ain't no place like the CW forums and really it's amazing that a forum that is essentially a promo/p2p support mechanism for a software product has morphed into such a close knit community that goes way beyond those functions. Guess that's why I get a little overprotective sometimes but I'm like that with my IRL friends too.
 
@jb... I am glad to hear that the treatments are working for you and that does give me some hope. They are telling me I will have to take a simple jab periodically to inhibit the destructor cells (the demolition Fraggles) so I'm not sure if it is the same thing. They said it was non intrusive though with no real side effects so if it isn't the same thing maybe, iffen you want, once I get to research this more I can give you the details for you to ask your doc about it. Perhaps it is a new treatment or something. Best to ya.
 
@Wook... Are you doing physio at home to keep those discs in place? I do a very specific but simple "exercise" that shoves the discs back into their little hidey holes and it's very effective. It's essentially just laying on my stomach and slightly arching backward curving my lower back (where my slipped/bulging discs are). This pushes them back into place so they are hitting the nerve bundle that runs down the spine (which is what causes the pain and leg numbness). If you can keep those buggers in place and strengthen your core (which as a whole other set of simple yet effective exercises) you should be golden. The surgery is a joke and best avoided if possible. Most people that get it have to have it done again a couple years later. Good health my furry friend.
 
@Karyn... I don't care for sweets... got any stinky cheese? Shropshire is my fave. All the tangy, rotting stinkiness of Stilton but with less foot flavor. :-p
 
@sharke... I have not drank milk regularly since I was a kid and avoid all sorts of other artery clogging foods specifically to avoid that kind of crap. Now they are telling me to guzzle whole milk. I did ask about this as well and I guess dealing with starvation/bone loss takes precedence over crudded up gaskets. I do already see a cardiologist once a year anyway though (to make sure my tubes don't explode for other reasons) so I'm more likely to have that stuff caught earlier that other folks.
 
Back to my vids/notes. I can finally understand what the heck Craig is talking about in those X1 Advanced vids that came with my X1Pro Expanded purchase all those years ago. Lots of cool stuff I want to try.
 
Thanks again, guys.

Remember to check out that vitamin K stuff Beep!
 
(I may be the only person you've ever heard of who regenerated two of his lower vertebrae too!)