I've been taking Raloxifene for 20 years and have not seen any improvement in bone density until my last DEXA. It showed a 5.6% increase in my spine and a 3.8% increase in my right hip. There was a small but insignificant increase in my left hip. The comparisons were made to my previous DEXA which was 2 years and 4 months ago. I'm having trouble believing this; it just seems too good to be true. I've been taking more Vitamin D and eating a lot of dark leafy greens since the last DEXA, but nothing else has changed.
Has anyone else experienced improvement while taking Raloxifene ? Thanks for any comments.
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In theory then the results should be comparable, but as Whitch says, just a different operator can come up with different results. In fact, there have been one or two small scale studies showing widely varying results from the same machine and operator on the same day!!! I was talking to a former DEXA operator yesterday, who told me there's a 10% margin of error with DEXA scanning, so you'd have to have more than a 10% difference in scores to be sure of a change!
I would be very careful about reading too much into this - I have been to,d on good authority - that these scans can be very unreliable - varies according to the machines and the operators - and big differences like this are common but not likely to be true !!
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