Last week I had a bone density scan at Kaiser. The previous one was two years ago at Stanford. Kaiser's diagnosis is I have osteopenia, not osteoporosis. That's good news. However...
As you can see in the table below, my spine got worse, although my left hip improved. But because Kaiser didn't scan my right hip, I may still have osteoporosis (-2.5 or lower). If Stanford hadn't tested my right hip, they would have also diagnosed me with just osteopenia.
My guess is I still have osteoporosis. It doesn't matter much, I suppose, whether Kaiser thinks I've improved to osteopenia. The treatment is the same. I continue with Zometa, calcium and exercise.
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