Ladies Who Lift...
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Mar 2024
11:06am, 25 Mar 2024
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Velociraptor
I'll probably come off mine sometime too, Sharkie. I've halved the dose without obvious ill effect. And at that point I'll probably read the bit in Next Level about adaptogens again. I'd quite like to squeeze a bone density scan out of the NHS before making a decision. I like to think it's OK, but I have no actual way of knowing. |
Mar 2024
11:09am, 25 Mar 2024
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Sharkie
Actually I think it was even earlier - before or coinciding with the Hastings move - so 55 at most.
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Mar 2024
12:56pm, 25 Mar 2024
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Lip Gloss
Doctor took me off mine a couple of years ago with no adverse affects
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Mar 2024
1:02pm, 25 Mar 2024
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Sharkie
I am taking my Next Level back to London with me and have started re-reading on the train. I may well have missed useful things by just not being in the mood when I bought it.
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Mar 2024
2:06pm, 25 Mar 2024
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DrMags
Thanks Sharkie and Velociraptor. Hmm, you guys are not selling me on it ha ha. Maybe I’ll save my £20 for something else. Was more interested in scientific approach / evidence for resistance training (“women are not small men” etc) specifically for post menopausal women (few big weights to failure vs many reps low weight to exhaustion etc). Don’t need motivational or inspirational text, just the facts. And as a late comer to menopause (about 53) and then HRT (from this Jan when already 58), I’m not coming off it anytime soon. Or giving up on long distance running and cycling 
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Mar 2024
3:21pm, 25 Mar 2024
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Lesley C
Stacy Sims did a video with Zoe (yes I know it's Zoe) that might be worth a watch. I am half way through and am finding it interesting.
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Mar 2024
3:26pm, 25 Mar 2024
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Rosehip
I'll probably come off mine sometime too, Sharkie. I've halved the dose without obvious ill effect. And at that point I'll probably read the bit in Next Level about adaptogens again. I'd quite like to squeeze a bone density scan out of the NHS before making a decision. I like to think it's OK, but I have no actual way of knowing. I was never on it, which seems to put me in a minority. Also trying to squeeze a DEXA out of NHS but even with an awful family history I couldn't get the score high enough. (Recent symptoms have got me a spine xray though so we'll see what that says) I read the book, but obviously wasn't impressed enough to take any advice. |
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Mar 2024
10:13am, 28 Mar 2024
242 posts
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DrMags
Lesley C, it was after watching the Zoe video that I considered getting the book hadn’t heard of her/the book till then. Still, I have lots of books on training especially for women/over 50’s that I haven’t fully read/digested/put into action 🫣🤣
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Mar 2024
10:59am, 28 Mar 2024
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Ness
I managed to get me a DEXA scan a few months after my mum had her osteoporosis diagnosis. I think that was in 2006 or 2007. My results were fine at the time. Not had a scan since.
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Mar 2024
11:03am, 28 Mar 2024
12,415 posts
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cathrobinson
I’ve paid for my own DEXA scans and have actually improved my bone density in my perimenopausal early 50s - largely thanks to strength training, and a sit stand desk at work.
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