Transient Osteoporosis - Osteoporosis Message Board

martutah · 09-09-2003, 09:40 AM

Anyone out there in medical limbo related to AVN versus Transient Osteoporosis?

I mean, specialists having different opinions, hoping to avoid unnecessary surgery (i.e. hip replacement with AVN) vs. resolution over time with TOH?

USAFMOM · 09-09-2003, 01:47 PM

I would like to help you by responding more definitively, however, your post seems very unclear, and the alphabet soup has thrown me. However, the words "transient osteoporosis" caught my attention. Maybe you can help me understand what "transient" osteoporosis is. It is my understanding that osteoporosis is not a transient thing, but a chronic, ongoing process that one can slow and sometimes even improve upon by intervening with different modalities such as diet, exercise, hormonal manipulation, medications, etc. etc.

Erie · 10-24-2003, 06:40 PM

I was diagnosed with transient osteoporosis in both hips about 2 1/2 years ago, but the AVN was also considered. They ruled out the AVN quite easily on an MRI. I guess maybe that isn't always possible...? I really don't know. Unfortunately I had no resolution of the TOH and have now been diagnosed with generalized osteoporosis (which stinks, because I'm 23 years old!). It took forever to figure out what was causing my pain because no one even considered looking at bone density in a 23 year old with no risk factors whatsoever.

Transient osteoporosis is a rather uncommon condition and usually affects women late in pregnancy and middle-aged men (of which I am neither). The cause really doesn't seem to be known, and treatment options aren't really known either. It usually resolves on its own in 6 months to as long as 2 years.

'Erie :-)

Kaitrin · 10-25-2003, 09:36 AM

I found this info because I'd never heard of either of those things - so this doesn't answer your original question but at least will help clear things up for the rest of us who don't know about those conditions:
[url="http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=294&topcategory =Hip"]http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=294&topcategory =Hip[/url]

Sounds like, as Erie just said, no one really knows much about transient osteoporosis, but I don't think it is what most of us have...

As for AVN:
Avascular necrosis

"AVN, as it's called, prevents the blood supply from flowing freely to the bone, causing cells to die."

Ouch.

~Kait