Let’s face it no one wants to study us, there is no money in it and the meds that we take are off label. We are only somewhere around 0.5 to 0.8 percent of the population so the drug companies are not interested in studying us.
Fracture risk in transgender women after gender-confirming surgeryWhat does all this mean?
Contemporary OB/GYN
By Bob Kronemyer
September 11, 2020
The authors said bone health is an important issue for transgender women; however, results of bone status after gender-confirming surgery are conflicting.
Transgender women who take estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) after gender-confirming surgery have a high prevalence of low bone mass that is significantly linked to low estradiol levels and low compliance with ERT, according to an Italian study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism (JBMM).
The authors said bone health is an important issue for transgender women; however, results of bone status after gender-confirming surgery are conflicting.
The retrospective analysis included 57 transgender women (mean age 45.3 years) who were referred to the Gender Dysphoria Clinic at the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, from January 2012 to May 2018.
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In total, 74% of subjects with low bone mass were nearly six times as likely to have estradiol levels in the lower two quartiles mass than those with higher estradiol levels.
Take your hormones!
Those of us who are on cross-gender hormone therapy whether pre-op or post-op we are at high risk of breaking a bone and our defense against broken bones is to take our hormones and as your mother always to you… drink your milk.
My endo has me take bone density x-rays once every ten years to check my bones and I am about due for another since I have been on hormones for over twenty years and I am in my seventies. Have you had a bone density scan?
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