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Good to know. I’ve spent most of the past thirty years feeling guilty about not doing mammograms or at least not very often. I’ve maybe had five and I’m 66. Regular breast exams however I think are good. Once a week and then my regular doc and my gynecologist each do one so that’s two or three times a year. Instead, do the colonopthingie. My docs also want me to do bone density testing but when we talk about what they would do if I had issues, they admit that the course of meds and supplements I take now would stay the same. Try to do 30 minutes of exercise per day (and if you try daily you’ll succeed about 5 times a week) and eat well. Do all that and you’ll die some day. LOL

I only had one mammogram in my life. It just seemed to me that acquaintances who got breast cancer were the ones who were most faithful about mammograms. Besides that, there's no family history of the disease and I've not been involved in any of the suspected risk factors.

But you know what? It isn't easy. I've gotten in near-screaming arguments with doctors who were insisting that I was killing myself by not getting mammograms. With one doctor, I had to make appointments and not show up, just to shut him up.

My DEXA score is bad, first drug was Fosamax, horrible side effects, and if you look all the OP drugs they have about the same ones. The new one they are pushing is Foreto, it comes in a diabetic style pen, 18 month program. My co-pays would amount to $1K. A daily shot, needles cost more than the med, and the promised bone regrowth of 9% DISAPPEARS once the drug is withdrawn after 18 months and you are put back on the other non bone regrowth meds. Where do I gain from it if it just disappears after the treatment is stopped. Waste of my money is all that weighing cost and benefits are balanced against each other.

I would prefer to see a standardized Vit/Min all in one Bone Supplement made that women can begin taking daily at age 30. Bones are made up of more than Calcium and Vit D. Which is why you see no great improvement in your Dexxa scores.

And with the cuts to Medicare they have moved Bone Density test to every 2 yrs. Unless your doc finds a ‘needed’ reason to do it every year. Same goes for men’s PSA testing.

Gotta read those first few pages of your Medicare or Tricare Life booklets to find out about those loss of services and test.