[Chickensoup]

I am not sure where to get vitamin and mineral advice particularly ratios. Pcp sends me to nutritionist who is clueless. Osteopathy? Naturopaths?

I understand now that ratios od vitamins D magnesium and calcium have to be looked after to not demineralize bones or clog arteries.

Your thoughts appreciated.

I will leave this here and come back to it later.

[Dr. Sivana]

You should let people know WHERE you live. Some things are best done in person.

[batazoid]

See eatthismuch.com

[Georgia Girl 2]

Take K2. It pushes calcium into the bones and away from the arteries.

[mass55th]

Have you had labwork done to determine if you are insufficient in magnesium, calcium, etc.? Have you had a bone density test to determine if you have osteopenia, or osteoporosis. Taking supplements that you don't need can cause problems as well. I ended up in the hospital back in early 2016 with low sodium, low potassium, low magnesium, and I was taking potassium supplements prescribed by my doctor. They told me then that too much potassium can bring on cardiac arrest as too low potassium can. I was also on hydrochlorothiazide at the time, and was told to go off both.

Besides having diabetes, high blood pressure, and hypothyroidism for at least 30+ years, I also have a hyper para-thyroid that produces too much calcium, so my numbers are always high when I have blood tests. Other than surgery, they can't do anything about it.

Many years ago I was on Actonel for treatment of ostepenia. It made my liver enzymes go so high, they thought I had liver cancer. Thankfully, I didn't, but I had to go off the Actonel. They substituted Miacalcin nasal spray which I used for years without problem, until they discovered the problem with my para-thyroid.

Last year, my then endocrinologist/family doctor put me on Fosamax for Osteoporosis, despite my reminding him of the problem I'd had with Actonel. They are both in the same drug class. As well, he changed my cholesterol medication from Prevastatin to Atorvastatin, and switched me from regular Lisinopril to Lisinopril-hydrochlorothiazide. I cautioned him regarding the issue I'd had with the long-time use of HTCZ in the past. He insisted there wouldn't be a problem, but there was. I ended up with adverse side-effects which screwed up every body chemical/enzyme, etc. that I had. They were either too high, or too low. I immediately stopped taking the Atorvastatin because I believed that was the main culprit. It had changed my urine orange after a week. After going to the emergency room because my heart was racing one morning upon rising, the emergency room doctor told me to stop taking the Lisinopril-hydrochlorothiazide as well. I had stopped taking the Fosamax on my own about the same time, and won't take any of those meds for Osteoporosis ever again. I'm 76, and still taking only oral meds for my diabetes (since late 90's). It took me 8 weeks to get back to normal after the adverse side-effects. My new family doctor tweaked some of my blood pressure medications, and my last two blood tests have been within normal range, except for the calcium. I have a new endocrinologist, because thankfully, my old one retired last December.

All I'm saying is to be very careful with the supplements you use, because you can actually do more harm than good to your body.

[Rusty0604]

So much differing info from so-called “experts”.

[gas_dr]

You can also look up a functional medicine specialist. They are a “the good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow…Do good, anyway” (Mother Theresa) hybrid.

[arthurus]

There is a lot of information on the web. When my doctor wants to give me a prescription for something I look up the scrip med on the web and find out what it is supposed to do and all the side effects. Then I look up Alternatives to that med and so far I take no prescription drugs. Look up alternative treatments for the condition you are trying to correct. I have thus overcome arthritis that had me riding the go carts at WalmMart 25 years ago. I have corrected macular degeneration in my eye over 12 years. I have got my cholesterol down to safe numbers and substituted for statins which are more harm than good, and more.