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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 561413" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Nancy, I do have bone problems. I have tried every version of vit D that my docs can find - OTC and rx pills, a supplement that was some omega oil with vit D in it, specially compounded shots and a cream. Going out into the sun or using a sun lamp has also been horrible and not effective. I vomit with all of these things, and with the rx amts of vit d that lasts for days. It is horrible, but there just isn't anything the docs can figure out. They have told me that I cannot take the bone building medications because the calcium in my blood is not high enough and with-o vit D they won't work anyway. They would most likely cause excruciating pain. One patient my endocrinologist tried the bone building medications had a severe reaction and had to be in the hospital on iv pain medications for over a week because it was so bad. Even with iv medications she was crying and screaming because the pain, so for much of the time they kept her asleep, which no doctor wants to do. </p><p></p><p>I am sorry you have this problem, and I pray it never gets to this point for you. I am horrified that it took doctors decades to tell us about this, and that I didn't look at lab results myself way back when I first starting having health issues when I was a teen. My kids won't have that happen because we get copies of every test and keep it in a file. I also look to see if anything is outside the normal limit because docs often miss things. I cannot tell you how many times I have asked a doctor what this or that result that is out of the range means - and often that is a key piece of info that helps them treat my child effectively. And since you can OFTEN find trends in the results, we have found some important things happening even though the results were never out of the normal range. I see the blood tests as a snapshot. They tell where things are at a set point in time. By making a graph or chart, you can compare the results much like having a photo collage of your child with pics at different ages. You get more info about what they look like now from the collage, and you get more medical info by watching what the levels do instead of just what level they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 561413, member: 1233"] Nancy, I do have bone problems. I have tried every version of vit D that my docs can find - OTC and rx pills, a supplement that was some omega oil with vit D in it, specially compounded shots and a cream. Going out into the sun or using a sun lamp has also been horrible and not effective. I vomit with all of these things, and with the rx amts of vit d that lasts for days. It is horrible, but there just isn't anything the docs can figure out. They have told me that I cannot take the bone building medications because the calcium in my blood is not high enough and with-o vit D they won't work anyway. They would most likely cause excruciating pain. One patient my endocrinologist tried the bone building medications had a severe reaction and had to be in the hospital on iv pain medications for over a week because it was so bad. Even with iv medications she was crying and screaming because the pain, so for much of the time they kept her asleep, which no doctor wants to do. I am sorry you have this problem, and I pray it never gets to this point for you. I am horrified that it took doctors decades to tell us about this, and that I didn't look at lab results myself way back when I first starting having health issues when I was a teen. My kids won't have that happen because we get copies of every test and keep it in a file. I also look to see if anything is outside the normal limit because docs often miss things. I cannot tell you how many times I have asked a doctor what this or that result that is out of the range means - and often that is a key piece of info that helps them treat my child effectively. And since you can OFTEN find trends in the results, we have found some important things happening even though the results were never out of the normal range. I see the blood tests as a snapshot. They tell where things are at a set point in time. By making a graph or chart, you can compare the results much like having a photo collage of your child with pics at different ages. You get more info about what they look like now from the collage, and you get more medical info by watching what the levels do instead of just what level they are. [/QUOTE]
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