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Has your doctor suggested dosing for Calcium and Vitamin D during ADT?
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When you take calcium, you can’t take more than 500 mg at a time, anything more is just thrown away by your body. I need to take calcium citrate three times a day, 500 mg each time. That finally raised my calcium above the minimum for normal.
A bone doctor at a recent conference discussed the fact that anybody on ADT has to be on bone strengtheners. I was on Fosamax for six years and I am now on Zometa. That’s kept my bones strong enough that If I fall I don’t break them. I’ve tested it a few times, Not intentionally.
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Thanks for reminding us of the 500mg absorption limit. Is there are reason or benefit for taking calcium citrate as opposed to calcium carbonate? And thanks for the reminder of bone strengtheners. Given my BCR, I'm bracing myself for the eventual ADT.
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Thank you.
I don't remember when I started the calcium.
I was told to split the dose to twice a day. I was taking Citracal. Now I get a sort of equivalent from the VA - 315 mg calcium citrate, 200 unit D - 2 of these, twice a day.
I've wondered about the bone strengtheners (the anabolic treatments - not to be confused with anabolic steroids).
A friend who has a different cancer and is taking heavy duty infusions for it gets one of those, I think.
I will ask about all of this when I get a consult. Meanwhile, I'll try spreading the four pills across three times a day, as you suggest.