lyme and bone loss

Together, these data represent the first evidence that B. burgdorferi infection induces bone loss in mice, and suggest that this phenotype results from inhibition of bone building rather than increased bone resorption.

http://www.prohealth.com/lyme/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=29783

Bone loss is pretty much permanent. You can curb it, but once it is gone, you can't get it back.

That is why there is screening for older woman to have bone scans for osteoporosis.

PeteZa said...
Bone loss is pretty much permanent. You can curb it, but once it is gone, you can't get it back.

That is why there is screening for older woman to have bone scans for osteoporosis.

The Drs. that I've seen since having osteoporosis insist there are medications for building it back, but as I've mentioned before the Fosamax was a huge mistake.

The one they are harping on now is the Forteo injection. teriparatide, which comes with a black box warning. My internist insists I will have the bones of a 16 year old - after 16 months of treatment.

No one wants to address the fact that my body is creating bone, but something is messed up in me that causes the bone(calcium) to be laid down near where it's meant to go, not in replacement for what is lost.

Exrays show ribbons of it on either side of my spine.