I am 49 years old and 6 years post menopause. I have never used estrogen, but I have used natural progesterone cream for one year, and I have been diligent in using calcium/mag supplements and also colloidal minerals. I have had seven children, which I have read contributes to thinning bones, and also an early menopause. About six months ago my dentist compared my current x-rays with those taken 10 years ago and said my jaw showed some bone loss. Two weeks ago I fractured a thoracic vertabra, and the only unusual thing that I had done was that I had visited a chiropractor for neck stiffness. He did some pretty hefty "bone cracking". After that I started to get pain in the upper back, which got bad. I went in to Dr. and they took an x-ray and saw a mild compression fracture, but the thing that shocked me was that he told me that my bones looked osteoporotic on the x-ray. I am going to have a BDS next week, and from there, I don't know. Now I feel as if I am walking on eggshells, that if I move the wrong way I might break a bone. How on earth are you supposed to exercise when your bones are fragile? The Dr. says that it could have happened spontaeneously as easy as for the chiropractic "adjustment", that it is impossible to know exactly what fractured the bone. My back is getting better each day, but it still feels sort of weak and gets sore by the end of the day. An ice pack works well. Is there anyone our here who has had this type of fracture and what can I do to prevent it in the future? I will write back.