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From: jamesp010 on 14 Oct 2007 12:24
I have a friend who suffers from osteoporosis and broke his hip. The
total Hip replacement went very well but he developed a complication
sometimes associated with Hip Replacement. The complication was Extra
bone growth around the hip area Heterotopic Ossification (or Myositis
Ossificans). He is now facing a very big dilemma because every time he
tries to take Calcium for Osteoporosis, his Heterotopic Ossification
(or Myositis Ossificans) becomes worse i.e. there is more bone growth
in the hip area which reduces his flexibility.

If he does not take Calcium, his Osteoporosis gets worse and he keeps
breaking his bones elsewhere.

Is there any expert here who can help, guide or share any experiences
which may help?

From: Juhana Harju on 14 Oct 2007 16:28
jamesp010(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> I have a friend who suffers from osteoporosis and broke his hip. The
> total Hip replacement went very well but he developed a complication
> sometimes associated with Hip Replacement. The complication was Extra
> bone growth around the hip area Heterotopic Ossification (or Myositis
> Ossificans). He is now facing a very big dilemma because every time he
> tries to take Calcium for Osteoporosis, his Heterotopic Ossification
> (or Myositis Ossificans) becomes worse i.e. there is more bone growth
> in the hip area which reduces his flexibility.
>
> If he does not take Calcium, his Osteoporosis gets worse and he keeps
> breaking his bones elsewhere.
>
> Is there any expert here who can help, guide or share any experiences
> which may help?

I am no expert in this issue but increasing the daily intake of vitamin K
should give him some protection against future fractions without negatively
promoting unwanted bone growth in the mentioned area. Some good sources of
dietary vitamin K are spinach, broccoli and parsley, the best being Japanese
soy food /natto/. I would suggest eating at least one of these daily. Also
eating salad daily has been found to be associated with clearly reduced
fracture risk.

--
Juhana

http://ruohikolla.blogspot.com/

From: trigonometry1972 on 14 Oct 2007 18:56
I'll agree with Juhana and add depending on which nation
you and he live in, there are vitamin K2 and vitamin K1 supplements
maybe available i.e. USA.. Or in some nations the physicians are know
to actually use vitamin K2 in the context of osteoporosis i.e. Japan.

I'll also suggest rutin maybe useful for slowing osteoporosis.
This is found tomatoes and buckwheat. And there are rutin
supplements tablets. I take a teaspoon of rutin powder of a daily
basis.
Run a Pubmed search on rutin and osteoporosis.

And in the more aggressive range of things I'd try might
if I could get Doc to prescribe it would be testosterone.
Or even a DHEA supplement. As these hormones are converted
locally in the bone to estrogen and this estrogen
has anabolic effects via the upregulation of IGF-1.

From: Shirley ann on 15 Oct 2007 07:31
Did he try taking Calcium Citrate +D vitamin.?

Drinking extra milk?

There are so many different kinds of calcium out on the market for
consumers now.

shirleyann

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