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Calcium of 10.6 on Tymlos

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (12)

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Hi @daisylou , I have a couple of questions. Prior to tymlos, what was your daily total intake of calcium (food source + supplement)? Did you have high calcium level in blood and/or urine (from 24hr urine calcium test) before the start of tymlos?

When I was on forteo, my serum calcium started to rise after 2 weeks to 10.2 from baseline of 9.5ish, then stayed at 10.5mg/dL for 2-3 months before came back down. Forteo ( i think tymlos does the same, but double check) is known to cause temporary calcium increase for a few hours after injection. Coincidentally my initial injections were late evening before bedtime, and blood draws were early am so maybe my results were expected? During second year I switched to am injection (so almost 24 hr post injection), serum calcium stayed mostly around mid 9s with occasional low 10s but within upper normal of 10.4. My endo didn't ask me to do anything differently.

Please let us know your endo's approach to your calcium situation. Thanks.

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Could you please share why you switched from the bedtime injection to the morning? I will start Tymlos very soon and cannot decide whether to do morning or evening injections.

I did not keep track of my calcium intake, other than it was 900 per day from the fortified almond milk. Along with that I ate dairy. So I’m guessing 1800? My high calcium before Tymlos (upper 10 something) dropped down to 9.7 when I stopped the almond milk, which occurred prior to starting Tymlos . I had to delay starting Tymlos in order to sort out the high calcium. I didn’t have a 24 hour urine calcium test, so it was only noted in the blood test.
I really appreciate the details about your experience with Forteo and calcium level.
Will keep posting on this. My prescribing dr is a rheumatologist. He is having me come back in 2 months. Fortunately I have a primary Dr appt in 6 weeks and she will do a metabolic panel so I can see my calcium level again then.