Low phosphate levels linked to hypothyroidism?

[helen_m]

Hi all,

I am under close monitoring for my kidneys by a renal consultant. I had severe acute kidney injury (AKI) caused by sepsis last year and am very slowly improving.

At my recent six monthly blood test, my phosphate levels had dropped and they are now below range. The trend for this has been dropping over the last year.

Possibly I'm being hypervigilant but I read up a little about it and found out that this is also linked to hypothyroidism and wondered if anybody else had come across this and what I could do. The kidney consultants are more concerned if it goes high, not low.

From reading on the internet, everything has phosphurus in it and I've not stopped eating dairy or meat.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Many thanks,

Helen

[humanbean]

I'm guessing that you have read pages from the obvious sources, but just in case you haven't...

Phosphate is low (Hypophosphataemia) when vitamin D is low.

Do you get your vitamin D levels tested regularly?

If your levels of vitamin D are low what supplemental dose are you taking, and what supplement are you actually taking?

Some links that might be of interest :

yourhormones.info/endocrine...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypop...

gloshospitals.nhs.uk/media/...

[helen_m in reply to humanbean]

Hi humanbean,

Thank you very much for the links, hadn't come across those ones.

I think my D has dropped but I'm struggling to get it back up again. I got advice from someone in one of the Vitamin D facebook groups who said I shouldn't take high doses of D/K2. She said even 5000ius was a high dose. This is because of the kidney issue, however when I spoke to my kidney consultant, he said D3/K2 was a great thing to take. So I'm unsure of what dose. I also can't take magnesium at all any longer again cos of kidneys being unable to clear it (function is down at 40%).

I'm currently taking Mad Diet vitamin D3/K2 which is 2000 ius of D3 and 50mcg of K2 MK7.

I'm going to get a Medichecks full thyroid + vitamins panel in the next few weeks to see what's happening.

Many thanks,

Helen

[sparkly]

I've had 3 or 4 low inorganic phosphate results but no one has ever mentioned it so don't think it is a problem.

[helen_m in reply to sparkly]

Thanks sparkly, that's useful to know 🙂

[Freesiaspring]

hi Helen - I know everyone is different but I just wanted to let you know that I seem to have fully recovered now from an Aki (stage 2) I was hospitalised for due to a kidney infection back in October 2023. I didn’t drink any alcohol and tried to drink more water than usual for a few months after the illness. I hope very much yours also recovers. I feared I would definitely have lasting damage, but thankfully for me this doesn’t seem to be the case and I wish you all the best with recovering. ❤️‍🩹

[helen_m in reply to Freesiaspring]

Thank you. I've been told I will make a full recovery but it might take years. I had complete failure of kidneys and lungs, so it's improving very slowly. I'm at moderate levels of kidney damage at the moment, which compared to how bad it was, is awesome

[Freesiaspring]

I’m sorry it is likely to take years. Well done for all the actions you are taking x