[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Avista

I am all for keeping people healthy. Strong bones prevent hospitalization and pain.

Originally Posted by CFrance

My grandmother lived to be 96. That's 11 years of broken bones and pain if she had osteo left untreated.
A friend from church, in her 80s, snapped a femur standing up. In rehab, they had to turn a screw in her leg every day for months, making her scream with pain. It took a year for her to recover.
It's a simple test and medication. I hope nobody gives up on me when I'm 85. I know a few very active 85-year-olds.

Originally Posted by sunnyatlast

This is so accurate. Obviously, those who scorn the testing and remedies needed have never seen a bright, active, wonderful lady in her 70s and 80s reduced to writhing and stiffening in unbearable pain and unable to withstand being out of bed because of her spine being in literal crumbs. The pain is excruciating and unrelenting in bed, too, where they loathe the risk of even rolling over or sneezing!

I think it would be malpractice for the physician to NOT recommend the testing and treatments before the uncorrectable disasters strike.

The test is not invasive. It is simply imaging sort of like ultrasound. And I know from experience that at least one of the medications has been virtually trouble free when taken as directed, monthly. No problem, ever after 5 years of use, and none for my dr. who is older and has taken it longer.

Listen to your mom's dr. Do you think he/she wants the patient to have a disaster causing perpetual, intractable pain that even the big narcotics won't relieve?? I don't! They're people with mothers, too, and they have seen what happens amongst relatives and thousands of patients!