Calcitrol - check your use of this prescription drug

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I'm totally in agreement with the need for most people to supplement with

Vitamin D3 until their blood tests get above 50 on the standard blood test -

preferably 60 to 70 for people with cancer. HOWEVER, if you're taking high

levels of Vitamin D3, the way I understand it, you need to make sure your blood

calcium levels don't get too high.

 

Calcitrol appears to be used when it is necessary to BUILD blood calcium levels.

So if you are going to use it to build Vitamin D levels, you may be

inadvertently getting yourself in trouble by pushing up blood calcium levels too

high (hypercalcaemia) at the same time you are raising Vitamin D.

" The main adverse drug reaction associated with calcitriol therapy is

hypercalcaemia “ early symptoms include: nausea, vomiting, constipation,

anorexia, apathy, headache, thirst, sweating, and/or polyuria). Compared to

other vitamin D compounds in clinical use (cholecalciferol, ergocalciferol),

calcitriol has a higher risk of inducing hypercalcaemia. "

Is there is a doctor in the house? Please comment. We need to be safe - not

sorry.  I'm afraid there may be some danger in using the calcitrol compound

instead of the usual cholecalciferol version of the vitamin.