If the lights go out in your apartment, what will you do? You might open the door of your apartment to confirm if the electricity is cut off in your apartment only or in the whole building. And if cut in the whole building, you might go out to the balcony to confirm if it is only your building or the entire block of buildings. Those are simple and logical steps that you do to diagnose the problem and you will take actions accordingly.
If the lights go out, does it make any sense to you if someone will open the door of ref to check if the food is still there? Sounds really odd and funny.
Ok, so let’s leave the electricity behind and go to the human body. If someone complains of pain anywhere in his body, in his back, or knees, or joints of his hands, and if I give tell you a simple and basic medical fact that there is a medical condition in medicine called osteoporosis, and this disease, osteoporosis, does not cause any pain in any part of the body, will it make any sense to you if I tell that a patient complaining of pain in his back went to the doctor and the doctor requested a certain test to check if the patient had osteoporosis? And even if the test was positive, mere chance, do you think it makes sense that giving treatment for this accidentally discovered osteoporosis will relieve the back pain. Never. It will never relieve any back pain simply because osteoporosis was never the cause of the back pain. You need to be examined by a specialist and maybe you need to do investigations if needed that target possible causes of your back pain.
Conclusion: Osteoporosis, contrary to what many patients believe, is not a painful condition. It does not cause body pain. It only means that your bones a bit fragile and if you fall down, you have a higher chance to sustain a bone fracture.
Please if the lights go out, don’t open the ref to check if the food is still there. Open the door of your apartment to know if the lights are out only in your apartment or in the entire building.
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This post was prepared and published by Dr. Hatem Eleishi. Dr. Hatem Eleishi is a professor of rheumatology at Cairo university (Egypt) and is especially dedicated to supporting arthritis patients with online educational videos and articles about arthritis causes and treatment. He also runs a rheumatology clinic in Cairo and a center for online medical consultations that, in addition to providing online rheumatology consultations, also provides online medical consultations in several different medical specialties by expert consultants from Egypt, Canada and the United States.
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