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Do I need to take calcium?

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Hi guys, I am hypthyroid taking 100mcg thyroxine per day. I am taking 1000IU vitamin d daily. My Endo ordered that I should take calcium on daily basis. Calcium level is 8.7mg/dl (range 8.1to 10.4mg/dl). Do i need to take calcium. Thanks for your support.

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Calcium supplements should only be taken if absolutely needed as levels must be kept within a tight range. Your level is within the range so you don't have a deficiency. The vitd and eating calcium rich foods will help maintain levels and are better than risking to much calcium by supplementing.

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Thanks bantam12.

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VitD improves the uptake of calcium from foods - so extra is not needed. Are you taking the important co-factors with D3 ?? What was your VitD result ? - are you taking enough ?

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serkaddis in reply to Marz

Hi Marz, thanks for your immediate response. My vitamin D result was 49.9ng/ml (range 20-100) on 9/1/2018. This happened after taking 50000for 8 weeks. Before the loaded dose it was 9.2ng/ml. Now after seeing the result of January 9, 2018 she ordered 1000iu per day. After two months i will check the level.

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Marz in reply to serkaddis

OK - so you are almost there and 1000 IU;s daily may just do it ! - I would be include to increase to around 2000 :-) Are you taking the important co-factors as mentioned in my reply above ??

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serkaddis in reply to Marz

Sorry no body told me that. What are the important co factors?

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Marz in reply to serkaddis

Sadly Docs are not up to speed. Reading the posts on this Forum will tell you loads of important things that Docs do not know :-) You need to be taking VitK2-MK7 and Magnesium .... Have you found the SEARCH THYROID UK facility here ? - where you can find answers to so much :-)

Also the main website to this Forum - see link below.

thyroiduk.org

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serkaddis in reply to Marz

Thank you so much.

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