Rickets AND Osteoporosis??
Posted in Life on 06/01/2009 10:58 pm by enjanerdSo apparently, I need to be getting more Vitamin D so I don’t get osteoporosis either? I thought all I had to do was eat more cheese…
‘You’re only 43,’ he said. ‘It’s a bit early to worry. You keep fit, don’t you? You get some sunshine?’
‘Ha!’ I said. ‘Exercise and sunshine aren’t really my thing. I’m usually indoors, tapping away on my computer.’
His reaction was both immediate and surprising. All trace of nonchalance disappeared and I felt my first surge of apprehension. Looking back, I don’t know what I had expected – a blood test, maybe – but I left clutching a referral to a private clinic with a state-of-the-art Hologic Discovery QDR bone scanner.