I'm 60 and suffered a spontaneous fracture

Pat, you need to find out what the t-scores are.  At least then you will know better where you stand and can make a more informed decision.  If you do opt for medication please also do everything you can to develop natural bone health.  That can only help you.  If you opt for the totally natural way one thing you could do is learn ways to guard your spine.  It takes months, even years, for new bone to be laid down.  The meds aren't that quick either, they can't be.  But the gratest risk for fracture is falling, not bone density, so improving your sense of balance is a good idea (Nordic walking, tai chi, the right kinds of yoga or Pilates), and a physiotherapist can demonstrate ways you can move your body to avoid the forward bends which risk compression fractures.

Studies have shown that natural means can improve bone density.  I myself am proof of that, and I'm not alone.  I've improved from -2 to -1.5 in one year, in spite of being on prednisone, over half the year at a level which can affect the bones.  All through appropriate exercise, nutrition and supplements.  

bone density improved from -2 to -1.6

Hi Anhaga.. Thank you for your reply.. sounds encouraging.. .. This morning i will try and get back to the hospital.. and ASK for the t-scores.. Shame really have to ask for any slightest bit of info.. Not given as a matter of course.. 

I have noticed a class starting Pilates next week.. 

My husband found this site. He is a Homeopath and has kept me going for yrs.. So good to find people same as myself.. and willing to share ..

Thank you..

In my area the doctor is only sent a summary which gives you your risk level.  For my first scan my doctor interpreted the summary to mean that I had osteoporosis and said I should take AA.  By then I'd done quite a bit of reading.  Iit was I who had asked for the scan and my GP actually said when I was so shocked at the result that one should be careful what one wished for.  Can you believe it?  Ignorance of a serious condition better than knowledge?  Anyway I refused, although some time later she had just been to an osteoporosis workshop and was really pressuring me.  I felt the medications were just too risky.  However I had a devil of a time getting my actual t-score.  Eventually I found out who I had to talk to and had an amusing phone conversation with her, she saying that she would have to get permission to release the results because of patient confidentiality and me laughing and saying, but I'm the patient!  Anyway she called back a few hours later and gave me number for femoral neck, which turned out to be osteopenia, not osteoporosis.  It took more than a year, and after a second scan, before I finally got the complete results including many for the spine (which were all relatively good).  That day I learned I wasn't about to fall apart was interesting as I went around feeling lighter and lighter.  It had been two months since the mistaken declaration I had OP and I must have been sunk into an even deeper depression thatn I realized.  But it doesn't really matter what the t-score was.  I was never going to take the medications.  Recovering from full-blown OP would take longer, but I was always going to try the natural way.  And I'm really glad I did.  I am not going to slack off, and if I'm still alive and kicking in a few years when I'm due for another scan I shall be very keen to see how I've done.

Oh, if they hadn't given me the result my alternative would have been to pay a fee and go through freedom of information but as we have the legal right to all our medical records including test results I didn't like that idea.

Well Anhaga.. 1 month ago i said i would try and find my T scores....  what a fiasco..  I rand the hospital..( special no.)  NO ANSWER..and again!!  then one evening had a lady ring.. said what would i like to know..  I asked her for my scores..She  said couldn't understand them  herself..and asked  who gave me this no.. // I gave her a name...  she said K.

had left ..or  on holiday... Had  good chat about my fears about the yearly injection..  while she was friendly .. it was just lip service with no info about anything; So im afraid im no futhur forward... Still got backache..  Doing Acupunture... helps.. every six weeks.. So our search goes on..

Just feel so intimidated at the hospital to do the injection.. .. .. 

It really is the limit, isn't it?  I don't know why it's so hard in some places to get one's hands on one's test results.  Where do you live?  I've been having my access problems in Nova Scotia.  But "they" are working on fixing this, although probably not for a few years, so all patients will have electronic access to all their test results.  Many already do but my dr isn't keenon signing up.  I think she is, justifialbly, worried about the time it may take for her.

I had a very amusing conversation when I called the right person at the hospital and she told me she couldn't tell me anything because of patient confidentiality.  We both bust into laughter when I pointed out the obvious, "But I'm the patient!" but she still had to get permission to release only one part of the results to me!