My Dad was on a study for osteoporosis in men ......... don't know any details as I had left there by then so it was a passing comment at a time when osteoporosis meant not a lot to me
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. Being the age I am exercise was the way we got about as soon as we walked, because Dad had the car and Mum didn't, so we walked or cycled everywhere. Lots of running in the garden, playing on the beach, wading in the sea - we were outside as much as possible and for ever active.
Connolly - we've had this 'conversation' B4 - without ADs and Anti-anxiety meds I wouldn't be here. My anxiety was instigated within hours of my being born. I had my first panic attack aged 3. Anorexic by age 5. No amount of CBT - which didn't appear in the NHS until the mid-1980s - did anything to alter my mind set. I think for it to be of benefit it needs to be available immediately after an event, again, the NHS lacks the funds to provide this service - there's a waiting list in our area of 22 months
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: I rang the Dept. after reading your suggestions.
Why would I want to alter my Life-style when I was ill, I also had breast treatment and a change of diet was suggested by 'friends'? Other than the two illnesses my Life was good: job I enjoyed, was driving everywhere and anywhere, loving husband, both of us otherwise healthy: [still are] : good GP and Dentist
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. There wasn't anything that I could change. In the 1990s I had intermittent talking therapy for 2/3 years to get rid of any anger: discuss, decide, ditch : which helped me get rid of frustrations. I can't even remember what those frustrations were
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Regardless of genetics I feel that symptoms ladies present with in Surgery should be listened to and understood by GPs of which there is still a hug lack across the UK. My Company paid for DEXA scans but it was of both feet and ankles - the deepest bone apparently in the pelvis
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and I was advised by the visiting Company providing the scans to alter my diet. However, when going through my diet, there wasn't anything to change
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