Hi brooklynngruber: Oh I agree with you this dr is not doing his job!!!! When your mom had surgery did they say anything about the bone being soft or spongy? Usually if a surgeon does some kind of bone surgery on a patient with osteoporosis, they need to know about it up front. If your mom has the type of insurance that lets you switch to someone else I would definitely do that and find a new dr.
Do you know what her t-scores were? Probably not since she had to find out from a PHARMCIST that she has osteoporosis.
If you could get a copy of the dexa scores that would help to understand where she's at with bone loss.
Normal bone is any score above -1.0
Osteopenia is a score between -1.0 and -2.5
Osteoporosis is a score below -2.5
Here's a link to the WHO definitions on osteopenia and osteoporosis. The entire site is very informative-but long, click through it to read about it.
[url]http://courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opbmd.html#WHO[/url]
Good luck and welcome...
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