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Bone thinning
Bone thinning is a loss of the normal density of bone (loss of calcium from the bone), and is often seen in older people who are experiencing metabolic changes of aging.
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A 40-year old asked:
What common drugs increase risk of bone thinning ?
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A 63-year old male asked:
Are there any studies that have looked at whether the bone-thinning side-effect of most aeds is dose dependent?
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A 40-year old asked:
How much calcium to prevent bone thinning diseases?
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A 18-year old female asked:
I'm 19 and suffer from horrible acid reflux. I don't want to take bone thinning drugs my whole life. Is surgery an option?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Is it risky to be on 0.05 mg Florinef (fludrocortisone) ever other day for POTS? I struggle with when off it. Concern for bones, thinning skin, adrenal suppression
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A 28-year old female asked:
What causes bone thinning at 28yo (female?) My teeth have begun to chip away and my bones are hurting. I'm scared something will break soon. My spine is showing degeneration?
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A 30-year old asked:
I have been informed by my dentist that I have loose teeth due to bone thinning. Couldnt it just be from menopause?
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A 46-year old asked:
My 94 yr old mom has upper body weakness, bone thinning, weak quads after stroke. What can we do ?
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A 57-year old male asked:
56 yr old male needing Two upper back molar Implants with Bridge or 3 single upper molar tooth Implants but have bone thinning seen from gum 3D Scan have been advised on Sinus lift.Is the Sinus Lift procedure high risk for complications?
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A 31-year old female asked:
A catscan showed that my pelvic bone is thinning pretty badly. Any thoughts on how it would be thinning so badly? I'm only 31.
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A 39-year old asked:
What causes osteoporosis (thinning of bone)?
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A 49-year old asked:
Osreoporosis (thinning of bone) is caused by?
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A 34-year old female asked:
I have these hurtful lumps on my head. X rays were done. Where the lumps are located the bone of the skull thinning and the sutures are separating. ?
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A 39-year old female asked:
How long can you be on depoprovera before you have to worry about thinning of the bones. I have been on it for 11+yrs?
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A 35-year old female asked:
I have to decide if i want to get my ulnar bone shortened to prevent more thinning of the tfcc ligament. How serious is this surgery? Recovery time?
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A 25-year old male asked:
How does one know if they have a compression fracture. When i get up my lower back hurts. Thinning of spine bone? Used too do heavy weightlifting inju
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A 30-year old female asked:
Extreme pain with sitting sacral/coccyx bony erosion and soft tissue thickening showed on CT last year but clear on bone scan so nothing more done. Feet go numb, stool thinning. Is there more tests?
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A 20-year old male asked:
I want to increase my stamina, and want to strong my bones for boxi.G. Should i take any kind of medicine or not ?
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A 21-year old male asked:
How can I have very strong bones and body, to be very immune to any type of disease and also to external damages (e.g. falling down, ...)?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can bone "dent"?
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A 40-year old asked:
Which bone is broken most?
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A member asked about a 49-year old female:
Can deformed bone be cured?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can lysteria get in the bone?
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A male asked:
How to increase bone strength ?
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A 54-year old asked:
What is the longest bone in the body?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: bone?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is there anyways that i could increase my bone growth?
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A 37-year old asked:
What would be a way to get the courage to break a bone?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Hello I'm having troubke with my tale bone please help me?
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A 36-year old asked:
I'm curious as to why is it that a bone takes so long to heal?
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