Bone Density and surgery

[Maria]

This is posted generally for all to answer but I guess Mark you know the most about this in terms of what the doctors accept in terms of t-scores.

I'm wondering if anyone had low t scores or osteoporosis going into their ADR surgery?

In the lumbar area mine is now t-2.6 and I have osteoporosis in the low lumbar vertebrae I think L5 was the worse per the report (seem to average the individual vertebral scores).

Currently I've been using Forteo now for nearly a month and the plan is to stay on it for 2 years and then get Reclast yearly per IV to maintain the return to normal t score/bone density (hopefully).

I know Dr.Bertagnoli does vertebraplasty with degrees of osteopenia/osteoporosis(?) so I'm just wondering if anyone has been in this situation here?

Seems like a number of persons have had vertebroplasty tho not sure if that was just sort of preventive vs. necessity.