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Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation in Thalassemia
Andy Battaglia:
Dori,
Why such a high dose of calcium? 3 grams is quite a bit. For someone your size, a dose of calcium of 750-1000 mg daily would be plenty.
Dori:
--- Quote from: Andy on May 10, 2016, 10:54:54 PM ---Dori,
Why such a high dose of calcium? 3 grams is quite a bit. For someone your size, a dose of calcium of 750-1000 mg daily would be plenty.
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Thank you Andy!! It was my frist thought that the dose is set too high. I am prescribe two times three grams a day. = 6 gr. I will try to take 1 mg every other day. My cooking weight scale can only measure grams. Does someone know a thing to measure mg with?
I have a box with 500 grams powder. There are pills but these are not covered by health insurance. it is too expensive to pay for it myself.
Waleed:
Dori,
It is advised that magnesium be also taken with calcium. The dosage should be roughly half of the calcium dosage.
Andy Battaglia:
Dore,
Calcium citrate is a fairly common supplement. Can you find a less expensive alternative? The powder I saw on Amazon directed to take one teaspoon daily. It was also very inexpensive.
http://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Calcium-Citrate-Powder/dp/B0006ZF9NC
Dori:
--- Quote from: Andy on May 14, 2016, 05:38:31 PM ---Dore,
Calcium citrate is a fairly common supplement. Can you find a less expensive alternative? The powder I saw on Amazon directed to take one teaspoon daily. It was also very inexpensive.
http://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Calcium-Citrate-Powder/dp/B0006ZF9NC
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Hi Andy, thank you for your help. I made a mistake in my last post. I forgot one must take it with water. So the powder I receive from my hematologist will be fine (it is covered by my insurance (the pills will not be covered). I talked about the pills because these all contain the same amount of calcium. But I found a good working scale for mg's.
So I should take 1 calcium citras, 1/2 magnesium and 800IU vitamin D. {I will take calcium citras and magnesium only every other day as I do not want to experience these side effects again).
I will also start another therapy against osteoporosis. It is called Zolendronaat (Aclasta and Zometa are other names) it is zoledronic acid. Is there anything I should know about that? Is there some pre treatment before it is started?
Please let me share something else. I had a hypertransfusion (from 7.8 gl/dl) to get me high and steady again: I feel so very great and energized! (I had been for months in the 7.8 zone as pre tx level - keep in mind I have PK Deficiency thus there exist not any protocol and I was stubborn) So please keep your hb high and steady. It is probably better for your bones as well. :wink
I had actually declared 2016 the year of osteoporosis therapy.
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