Blood Calcium Level of 134

[User2008]

Good afternoon. My husband's blood test results came in today and thankfully, his PSA is <0.1. His blood calcium level, however, is 134, which is far too high. The doctor has requested a Coronary Calcium Scan as she is worried about Calcium build up in his arteries. I am also concerned about his cancer (or a new cancer) having spread to his bones. Have any of you folks ever had a blood Calcium level of 134 and what did you do about it? Thanks for any insight you can give.

[LearnAll]

Such high blood calcium level requires exploration of causes ..both related to prostate cancer as well as related to other conditions such as parathyroid, calcium deposiion in arte ries etc. Glad your Doctor is taking this high reading seriously.Most Prostate cancer causes Osteoblastic type lesion and do not increase blood calcium level...in fact in these ..blood calcium can get low due to excessive repairing of bones requiring more calcium and that is taken from blood calcium pool.

However, there is a small fraction of men who have aggressive variant of PCa where they have Osteolytic type lesion. These osteolytic lesions break little pieces of bone which release a lot of calcium in blood ...raising blood calcium level. Therefore, bone CT or MRI should look for any Osteolytic type bone lesions. But ruling out non cancer causes is important.

[User2008 in reply to LearnAll]

Thank you for that response. I appreciate the info. We will be scheduling the Coronary Calcium Scan. 😗

[pjoshea13]

I have known only one man with a diagnosis of hypervitaminosis D. I asked him if he was using vitamin K, which is essential to calcium transport to bone. He said that he had stopped a few months earlier. He had ptherwise been a long-term user of D+K2 & had never had a calcium issue.

It is important to use K - preferably K2-7.

It's been shown that vitamin K2 can actually remove arterial cacium. When my wife was 65, she had a Coronary Calcium Scan. All four of the readings showed zero calcification. Her doctor said it was "unheard of" in a woman of her age.

-Patrick

[Tall_Allen]

Usually because of abnormally high parathyroid hormone levels.

[User2008 in reply to Tall_Allen]

I dug out my hub's blood work reports for the past 5 years. The blood Calcium numbers were always well within the normal range. Could the increase happen over the course of 12 months?

[Tall_Allen in reply to User2008]

Check his parathyroid hormone levels.

[tango65]

What are the units? If these values were in mg/dL he would be in a severe hypercalcemic crisis.

[User2008 in reply to tango65]

The bloodwork report is set to populate to his "portal" today. I will be able to answer your question later today and I will post back.

[AnnieAppleseed]

I had such high calcium my doc told me to go to the Emergency room. She thought it was probably a result of tumor breaking down. They gave me a shot of one of the bone meds. It did work. But the calcium stays high (right now just under the top number of test). Good wishes.

[Hidden in reply to AnnieAppleseed]

Got to keep eating the apple seeds. I do! 🕊🍀

[AnnieAppleseed in reply to Hidden]

So you are saying that eating the apple seeds help lower blood calcium? I find it hard to believe as I am eating apricot pits daily, providing similar benefits (theoretically).

[addicted2cycling]

Nalakrats wrote --- " ... likely related to the Parathyroid Gland--->this needs checking "

I had 2 removed = problem solved

[nonm in reply to addicted2cycling]

Like your approach!

[LowT]

Repeat the test!!

[User2008 in reply to LowT]

My hubs suggested the same thing.

[Kuanyin]

In addition to what others have written re scans for parathyroid lesions there is also a urine test. Your husband will be asked to urinate into a gallon container to collect his urine over twenty-four hours. Knowing his free or ionic calcium level is useful. If a blood test shows that his PTH (Parathyroid Hormone Level) is within normal range and his ionic calcium level is also normal that will help rule out Hyperparathyroidism.--K.

[User2008 in reply to Kuanyin]

Thank you, Kuanyin.

[VCinTx]

I had parathyroid surgery two weeks ago because of my high calcium. My calcium number is now in the normal range.