Osteoporosis and Weight Loss
Hi! I have just returned to this site after a few years lay-off. Unfortunately I have been fighting Osteoporosis and just found out my thyroid has quit producing....
Now, I am on thyroid meds and am fighting bone loss without RX meds, because I had a very bad reaction to them. I was told that I had to lose weight slowly so as not to lose more bone. So far, I have finally lost 14 pounds since August of last year!!!!;) Anyone else, in this boat? If so, how are you managing it all? Thanks & Blessings! |
Hi, I can't offer you any advice as i'm not yet where you are at now though one day i could be.
Would you mind sharing more about what you understand of the link between osteoporosis and hypothyroidism or more about your history with these disease. I understand there is a link. I have hypothyroidism and so do and did my mother and grandmother. They also both have/had osteoporosis. My grandmother died aged 90. My mother is now 77. I'm 50. Have you only just discovered you had a thyroid problem? And therefore have never been on meds for it before. What are RX meds? I'd like to know how old you are but obviously its your call. Did the doctor say how slowly you should lose? I mean did he/she say like 1 pound in three months or one pound a month? or anything like that? What sort of exercise program have they got you on? |
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Blessings! |
No i consider myself to be a healthy person, although fat and unfit. But as mentioned i do have hypothyroidism and i also take meds for depression though that is under control at the moment.
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Oops sorry i didn't see the quote contained answers to my questions at first. Thanks for answering them.
yes so i think the osteoporosis and the hypothyroidism is hereditary in my family. But unlike my mother and grandmother, had a good diet full of milk growing up. I also never had children. My mother was a war child when food was in shortage in london. Grandma had four babies. Mum had just two. I've also grown up with lots of sunshine and for most of my early life quite a bit of exercise particularly when very young. I"ve been much slacker throughout my adult years with only shortish periods of intense exercise. All those are factors in the causes of osteoporosis. I haven't really got anything else of any use to share about my situation re these diseases. I am surprised that if it was known you had a low thyroid function many years ago that you weren't put on medication then. Do you know why they didn't? |
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