Lorisue5
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I have a 17 year old daughter with fatigue and 2 stress fractures (different legs and different locations) in less than a year. No GI symptoms. Diagnosed 2 months ago and have been gluten-free since. I noticed some improvement in her fatigue in week 3, could just see it in her face. She noted a little improvement in week 4. We are still working on it...
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Just checking in on how things are going for your daughter. Megan is less fatigued now and it is nice to see a bit on energy in her again. Have they done the 6 month DEXA yet?
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They are not even planning at looking at it until a year because it takes quite a while for a measurable difference to show up. They talked about Calcitonin, but her rheumatologist was not in favor of it due to not enough evidence that is helps bone density. They have not talked about the biophosphates and I am unsure what the right thing would be to do...
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Thank you so much for your kind reply. She was off running for 3 months this time and just got to start last Monday. Her mood is definitely improved! Good luck and I hope you heal quickly. It's going to be finding that balance of just enough and not too much for both of you.
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Thank you for sharing. That makes me feel tremendously better to know there is someone out there with a similar story, but I am sorry that your daughter and your family are having to go through this. Her spine t-score was -2.8 and her hips were -1.5. No teeth issues (yet). She is smaller than everyone else in the family but only about an inch shorter...
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My daughter runs cross country and track. In the last year she had a stress fracture in her left tibia and this year in her right femoral neck. When I questioned the ortho. about why 2 in one year he sent us for further work ups. At that first appointment they did a bone density scan and determined she had osteoporosis. Many blood tests later they determined...