Bad news from the docs today. Of all the darned things I have freaking osteoporosis... like badly. Pardon my language but this is F*CKED. I'm not even 40.
 
Drink your milk, kids... and play drums.

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

Sorry to hear that Beeps. I also thought it was something you get in latter part of life (at least past 60's). Wishing you a positive outlook for the future.

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?

Bone density tests don't lie and it makes sense. Malnutrition + sedentary lifestyle = D'oh!
 
Due to the slipped/bulged discs moving around was bad. Not moving around was bad. Not working led to not having money for extravagant luxuries like milk and cheeses.
 
I swear this all got a million times worse once I stopped playing drums and moved away from the cheese stores where I could snag nice cheese for 5 bucks a kilo.
 
So to paraphrase the doc, we have little fraggles in our skeletons that run around doing stuff. Half of them build things and the other half tear them down. When you stop beating the crap out of your bones through general usage the ones who build things go on strike and/or just sit on their butts catcalling to sexy cells passing by while the demo crew keeps on working ripping crap apart. Eventually the building just falls over.
 
I was quite literally warned that vertebrae are going to start shattering if I don't go crazy trying to reverse this... and it will take years. In Canuckerian I am supposed to drink one full "bag" of whole milk a day (that's about a half gallon), take a pile of supplements and get shot up with something that keeps the demolition crew too drunk to work.
 
Not sure how the frack I'm gonna manage all that but this is bad. I thought I was getting better.
 
Stupid fraggles.

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

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.

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

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

 

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!