In mid-May I fractured my L4 verterbrae. I have had Osteopenia/Osteoporosis for almost 20 years. I ended up having the verterbrae collapse and now am facing major surgery in two weeks. Both my fall and the collapse were probably because my bone density was not good.
It will be a two day surgery on Sept 27th and Sept 28th. I am scheduled to have the verterbrae removed with a cage fusion placed from L2 to S1.
I have never broken any bones before nor have I ever had any major surgery. I am 70 years old. I was a very active person before falling, doing three minute planks exercising daily with women much younger than I am, riding my bike and doing all my own landscaping/gardening. So the last 4 months walking with a walker and now a cane has been very hard on my psyche.
I am not jabbed but signed a release to get a transfusion because my husband who is also not jabbed insisted I do so. Still I let my surgeon know I am not comfortable with a transfusion. Please pray it will NOT be needed.
In the meantime, I am now considered at high risk for fractures and am giving myself injections of bone protein (currently on a sample of tymolos but will be on forteo after the script is approved).
As a believer I do not fear death. However, I do not wish to end up with any permanent pain or disability. Nor do I wish to have this surgery fail and have to go back in for more surgery. I read up on lumbar spinal fusions and discovered there is a 50% failure rate.
So please pray I make it through surgery without any blood transfusions. That I have a successful surgery and heal up properly.
Thanks in advance to all you prayer warriors!
I cannot find it at the moment, but there is a medical article I believe in the Epoch Times, about the fraud around bone density and osteoporosis.
Short version: the condition was invented by docs using the bone densities of 20yr-olds, and anyone outside of that suddenly had this new condition. And therefore they need calcium supplements to make their bones denser, thicker, harder. However, we're not really supposed to have hard bones all through life, they're supposed to be more spongy as we age. But now we've made them hard and BRITTLE so currently more older women break major bones than ever before, because we don't absorb shocks, we can only break like chalk.
Middle and seasoned citizens, do NOT pay attention to scans that result in pill pushers shoving calcium down your throats!! Eat well and naturally and you will be what you're supposed to be.
Prayers for you, sister, from the Triad. Keep us updated if you can, praying that everyone attending you is based and watching out for you like God's own angels.
I had a great aunt who was a hunch back. Osteoporosis runs in my family. It’s real. I am aware the biophosnates many get put on for this only cause your bones to be bad and more brittle. This is something I didn’t know until a year or so ago. Basically, they just stop your bones from shedding off old bone. They keep the bad stuff and make it worse. A little over a year ago I went on a natural supplement was actually building my bones up. I was happy to learn this in April before I fell when I had my last Dexascan. It works slowly . Unfortunately, I probably needed to be on it for a couple more years as many who were in it said they no longer took the biophosnate drugs. I was looking forward to going off those drugs. I’m still on it but Now I’m also on a bone protein injection. But can only be on it up to 18 months and then they’ll want to put me back on a biophosnate again.
Sorry for the genes, I've known several women who had great genes but over-calcified and wound up in a lot of unnecessary pain and suffering. Prayers for you and yours, and that the medical people do the right thing by you.