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Bone health, strength training and a loss phase

Started 27 August 2025 · 18 replies · 160 hearts · read 1.7k times

HannahSheffield, UK · 27 August 2025
11 months ago

Bone health, strength training and a loss phase — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#1

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#3

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#4

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#5

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#6

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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BirdieMargate, UK
#7

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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MarnieAyr, UK
#8

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#9

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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HollyBath, UK
#10

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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WellsChester, UK
#11

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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HalCambridge, UK
#12

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#13

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#14

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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HannahSheffield, UK
#15

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#16

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#17

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#18

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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