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Ann - Interview 35  

Ann - Interview 35

Age at Interview: 69
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 62
Background: Retired nurse, married with two adult children. She is an active member of both the osteoporosis and coeliac disease support groups and says that she is having a ‘very busy retirement’.

Brief outline:Diagnosed in 2001. Ann has had side effects from several of the osteoporosis treatments; problems with swallowing, heartburn and pain. She is currently on Bonviva (ibandronate) once monthly orally, but she is changing to the intravenous injection form administered every three months. She was also diagnosed with coeliac disease.

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Ann’s doctor advised her that going up and down her stairs at home several times a day was good exercise when the weather was bad.

 



We had four very steep steps to the kitchen door, a turn and four again, steep steps narrow steep steps. So bearing in mind my husband and I are getting older we decided to remove those steps completely. We now have a wider landing outside the kitchen door and we have four shallow, four wider steps but shallower, a bigger turn and eight, sorry we have six, a turn and eight wider this way but shallower steps. That has proved it’s worth. It’s worth every penny we paid for that. I’m now going down the steps and coming back up the steps in confidence, you know. And I can run up and down those steps like nobody’s business now and it’s doing my hips the power of good because I’m several times a day I’m doing fourteen steps umpteen times a day which is good for my hips, my bone density on my hip joints, you know. Because Doctor [name] says that like in inclement weather, and I always advise this when I do talks on osteoporosis, that rather than going out in very slushy rainy weather if you have a normal set of thirteen stairs, an ordinary staircase, if you do that twelve times in a period of twenty four hours you’ve walked two and a half miles. And I keep this in mind when I’m doing the back steps and the normal staircase, you know. I’m doing my hip joints the power of good every single day. And I enjoy doing that. I look upon that as not a chore that I have to do but something that I enjoy doing and it’s working well. It’s doing my hip joints the power of good. You know.

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