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Iris - Interview 24  

Iris - Interview 24

Age at Interview: 60
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 59
Background: Married; two daughters. Iris has recently retired and says that it is in denial about her osteoporosis because this was supposed to be her ‘me time’.

Brief outline:Her diagnosis of osteoporosis was prompted by her being invited by the osteoporosis nurse for a bone density scan. The type of fracture she had was unusually severe for the type of fall she incurred and, her age. She takes Actonel 3mg once weekly and calcium tablets.

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Iris feels that she is doing everything she can to manage her osteoporosis well, but she would like more specialist advice.

 



Like being in denial for a kick off and my belief is that I am doing everything I can, to, I’m working with the tablets and everything to prevent, that’s my belief that I’m preventing it getting any worse. And its my belief that I am doing that. As I say, if I had the chance of a, you know, a real consultant, you know, I would try and get them to estimate, what might happen to me, and what I need to look out for and everything. My belief is that I am doing the best I can, and I would advise anybody else to do the same. But whether I find out in years to come, that it wasn’t, it’s not stopping it, well I don’t know.
 
You are just left there aren’t you, you know, there’s no one…
 
And that’s how you feel?
 
Yes. I feel that I still don’t know. I am doing the best I can, on the medication that I have been given. But I actually don’t know if it’s going to stop me getting any worse, or whether, I will get worse.

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