Magnesium question - bad reaction

[liverock]

By a specialist do you mean an endocrinologist or someone else? Because I did see an endocrinologist and all he did was check me for addisons.
Also I forgot to mention that sometimes my calcium is high and sometimes it isn't. I've had it checked many times over the past 6 months. It seems to be 50/50

Calcium fluctuations is another sign of a parathyroid growth.
You need the advice of a dedicated parathyroid surgeon. Dr James Norman and his surgeons carry out 3.700 parathyroid operations/annum.
There is a form to click onto on his website where you can get questions answered and advice from a surgeon on whether you may have hyperthyroidism. They will need your lab readings particularly all Calcium, parathyroid hormone(PTH)and Vitamin D levels.

http://www.parathyroid.com/parathyroid-symptoms.htm

 

[xinamatusx]

Calcium fluctuations is another sign of a parathyroid growth.
You need the advice of a dedicated parathyroid surgeon. Dr James Norman and his surgeons carry out 3.700 parathyroid operations/annum.
There is a form to click onto on his website where you can get questions answered and advice from a surgeon on whether you may have hyperthyroidism. They will need your lab readings particularly all Calcium, parathyroid hormone(PTH)and Vitamin D levels.

http://www.parathyroid.com/parathyroid-symptoms.htm

I see. Thank you for all the information. I have been looking into parathyroid.com and am planning to reach out to them so they can look at my labs.

Here are the calcium results I could access:

7/27 - 9.6
7/25 - 10.4
7/21 - 10.1
6/28 - 9.9
6/26 - 10.5
6/21 - 9.8

And I only had my PTH checked once:

6/28 - 64.5

I don't have results going back since my chronic fatigue started. The high calcium is something that we noticed recently after I went to the ER one time and they just kept checking it a bunch over the course of a few months and sent me to an endocrinologist.

I had my vitamin d checked 6/28 and it was 24.82 so not super low but still deficient.

 

[liverock]

@xinamatusx

Thank you for all the information. I have been looking into parathyroid.com and am planning to reach out to them so they can look at my labs.

Make sure you also inform then of how many of the symptoms from their list you suffer from.

 

[Saint George]

I cannot take any supplemental magnesium - not even in a multivitamin. It makes me so lethargic and I end up sleeping all of the time - day and night. I started having problems with thinking and found that I couldn't do the simplest of things. I was having hot flashes all of the time and couldn't tolerate being hot at all.

I've met several people now who also cannot take magnesium for the same reasons, especially extreme lethargy. As one person said to me, it made her "lose her will to live". And we aren't talking large doses here either. My multi only had 50 mg but it was enough to totally incapacitate me after a couple of weeks.

I know this is an old thread - but how did you isolate magnesium being the cause of this? This exact reaction you describe may be happening to me and I think magnesium could be the cause! It is either magnesium or potassium supplements and I am now worried it may be magnesium which is so hard to isolate!

 

[xinamatusx]

Calcium fluctuations is another sign of a parathyroid growth.
You need the advice of a dedicated parathyroid surgeon. Dr James Norman and his surgeons carry out 3.700 parathyroid operations/annum.
There is a form to click onto on his website where you can get questions answered and advice from a surgeon on whether you may have hyperthyroidism. They will need your lab readings particularly all Calcium, parathyroid hormone(PTH)and Vitamin D levels.

http://www.parathyroid.com/parathyroid-symptoms.htm

Just wanted to let you know, I DID have hyperparathyroidism. I had surgery about a year ago.