Re: What about Vitamin D? -

[Guest guest]

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> Have you been on that protocol since the beginning, or did they

> detect a

> problem developing after your surgery and corrected with the vitamin

> D? What did the supplement change for you?

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Thanks for the info and the links. It's informational - and

discouraging. I'll have to give up Brussels Sprouts! ;D ;D Diets

and I don't do real well; I can follow the " protein first "

requirement for my surgery and that's about it. For me, diets lead

to cravings, which leads to bingeing.

I had a Duodenal Switch, which means that a large part of the

duodenum is somewhere else, so I don't absorb the fat-soluble

vitamins as well (A,D,E,K). A, E, and K haven't been a problem, but

D was low, so on the advice of my doc I supplemented. I was on the

low end of normal at my 24 month labs in Oct, so my doc told me to

increase the D.

I didn't notice any great difference, but then my level never got

super-low. I'm also spending more time outdoors than I used to, so I

get some D that way.

I pay attention to cravings, though. Last summer I was craving red

beets. Lately, it's been dark green leafy vegetables. Except for

that chocolate craze a couple of weeks ago.

Z

[Guest guest]

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Every one of those binge foods is high oxalate! One of the things we

learned on our list is that some people will start to crave high oxalate

foods if they are developing an oxalate problem, so do be careful. That

happened to me. I started to crave chocolate morsels as my pain (plantar

fascitits) got more and more painful. When I discovered the oxalate link,

the pain I had in my foot for two years went away within a week or two of

going low oxalate, and it never came back except just a little at first

when I got myself in a situation where I had to eat SOME high oxalate

food.. My time without pain has been three years.

On a low oxalate diet, you try to keep oxalates below 40-60 mgs a day.

Chocolate is 33 mgs an ounce.

Beets are 87 mgs per cup.

What else could link the cravings to those very different foods?

Taking more vitamin D may increase the percentage of the oxalate you are

absorbing from the gut, so that might explain why this has recently snuck

up on you!

I hope this helps. Believe me, I know how nice it is to finally be

relieved from chronic pain!

At 06:13 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote:

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>

> >

> > Have you been on that protocol since the beginning, or did they

> > detect a

> > problem developing after your surgery and corrected with the vitamin

> > D? What did the supplement change for you?

>

>,

>

>Thanks for the info and the links. It's informational - and

>discouraging. I'll have to give up Brussels Sprouts! ;D ;D Diets

>and I don't do real well; I can follow the " protein first "

>requirement for my surgery and that's about it. For me, diets lead

>to cravings, which leads to bingeing.

>

>I had a Duodenal Switch, which means that a large part of the

>duodenum is somewhere else, so I don't absorb the fat-soluble

>vitamins as well (A,D,E,K). A, E, and K haven't been a problem, but

>D was low, so on the advice of my doc I supplemented. I was on the

>low end of normal at my 24 month labs in Oct, so my doc told me to

>increase the D.

>

>I didn't notice any great difference, but then my level never got

>super-low. I'm also spending more time outdoors than I used to, so I

>get some D that way.

>

>I pay attention to cravings, though. Last summer I was craving red

>beets. Lately, it's been dark green leafy vegetables. Except for

>that chocolate craze a couple of weeks ago.

>

> Z

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