Especially if you’ve already broken a bone, your doctor may prescribe medicine to lower your chances for osteoporosis and to prevent more fractures:
Hormone replacement therapy, once a popular treatment to prevent bone loss, is rarely used for that now.
- Bisphosphonates that slow your body’s natural process for breaking down bone
- Teriparatide (Forteo), a drug that acts like a hormone made by your parathyroid glands to help the body make new bone
- Raloxifene (Evista), which might also lower your chances of getting breast cancer