@singingbones
I feel like I read more medical literature than the average American because I need to, because there’s so many red flags that doctor’s don’t bring to our attention, yet I still feel like I’m not doing enough, don’t know enough…I just found out yesterday from a really good Osteo Boston presentation by Dr. Deva Bone, a parathyroid specialist, that for people 40 and over, Calcium levels should be mid to high 9s, and the reference ranges are way too wide. The most I’ve ever been is 9.3, and often into the mid 8s. I’ve had reading that were actually flagged as low, but no doctor ever pointed that out until a few months ago with a new primary care. My Calcium was low and he said it should be higher. I’ve been taking Calcium for years, and consistently the last 15 years. When I brought up my supplemental Calcium intake to my previous doctor, as I was getting older and asking about increasing my supplement intake, she advised me not to take more than 500 mg. a day because of the concern about it going to the heart. The thing is that it should have been common knowledge that if my Calcium wasn’t in the mid to high 9s, I should have been monitored and told to supplement until I got to that level. No doctor ever told me that before my current doctor. This doctor told me to double my Calcium supplement, which is the same thing Dr. Boone said in the presentation. Also, Calcium should not go above 10-10.1. If it does, thats a major red flag of having primary hypoparathyroidism, and needs attention NOW, not something to watch and see if it comes down. I learned so much from this: