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Hi

Just a quick question does anyone know if the following ingredients in my calcium supplement can cause strange sleep ie waking up Sandocal 1000 effervescent :

Active ingredients calcium lactate gluconate 2263 mg and calcium carbonate 1750mg. Equivalent 1000mg calcium

Other ingredients: citric acid anhydrous, orange flavoriing (orange essential oils, malformation, Arabic gun, sorbitol(E 420) , dextrose) aspartame (E951) , MacDougall 6000 and sodium hydrogen carbonate.

I take 500 12 500 at 8 9pm

Though it says to take all at once.

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Are you taking it four hours away from your thyroid hormone? Do you know that calcium supplements are not a very good thing to take, anyway? Do you absolutely have to take it - parathyroid problem? How's your vit D?

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vooxxy in reply togreygoose

Yes, I know, I have no parathyroid glands my calcium levels are good and vit d is good. Its just I have a feeling that this is causing my sleep issues I'm not 100% sure though. I used to take this at the 500 mg but they discontinued that around 2013. Also i have noticed how it tastes completely different to how it used to. btw i have been on calcium since i had everything removed so i was 8 then now 25.

Just looking at these ingredients like artificial sweeteners n so on are in these.

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greygoose in reply tovooxxy

Well, artificial sweeteners are definitely a bad idea - especially for hypos. Can't you get another brand?

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vooxxy in reply togreygoose

yeah going to look into a new brand going talk to my pharmacist also im going take a natural b complex is going be here by the 2nd october see how i get on with that. amazon.co.uk/Super-B-Comple...

Ewww!! All those nasty additives and a lot of chalk - the least absorbable type of calcium. Id there a better brand? I suspect you actually need magnesium, especially if you can't sleep well. Best to take calcium in the morning 4 hours after levo and magnesium in the evening

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vooxxy in reply toAngel_of_the_North

I have been taken this for years do you think its possible its built up in my system I mean my last bloods for calcium show it is fine but i will speak to my pharmacist. I dont take levo im on t3 only. btw i saw my typos was typing on a tablet - MacDougall = Macrogol 6000 and malformation = Maltodextrin

Can you recommend any good calcium and magnesium?

Also looking at these damn symptoms of to much calcium and little magnesium rings bells the muscle pains etc in my back and so on but my tsh is still elevated and is being brought down so that could be adding to it also.

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