Osteoporosis Symptoms – Signs Of Warning
Osteoporosis is a disease wherein your bones become so weak and fragile, that they may break for petty reasons, or sometimes for no reason at all. You may get a fracture for just falling down from a standing position. Affecting women mostly, it has become a threat for the females around the world. So, how do you make sure that you are not a victim of this disease which can make your life horrible?
What are the symptoms or signs of this disease? What are those signs which can help you detect the disease in yourself or the lack of which symptoms can comfort you that you have not acquired this serious problem?
As a matter of fact, there are no such signs of osteoporosis. In the early stages, the disease does not let you know that it has found home in your body. As the disease becomes more and more severe, the symptoms also start showing up.Often the signs are noticeable when the patient is in the most serious or last stage of the disease.
The first visible signs of osteoporosis may include joint aches, dull pain in bones and muscles, lower back pain and neck pain. In the next stage, there may be sharp and sudden pains. But the pain does not spread in other areas or other parts of the body. While the pain has occurred, any weight put on the area of the pain may make the pain even worse.
The pain is also accompanied by tenderness in the particular area. Though the pain subsides within a week but it stays more than three months at a stretch. One can also experience leg cramps at night, pain in the abdomen or ribs, tooth loss and fatigue.
In the next stage of osteoporosis, you may suddenly get a fracture or a broken bone. It may result from simple things like falling down, bending over, lifting something, jumping or just falling down from a standing position.Sometimes, people find out about this disease when they break a bone or have a fracture for something so ignorable, that they do not even remember the reason of the fracture.
Fractures in the hip, wrist, backbone, forearm, or any bony site is common in osteoporosis. In the later stages, severe pain, disfigurement and debilitation are commonly found in the patient. But unlike popular belief, there is no swelling of any kind in osteoporosis.
