Back in 2019, I tripped over something (moving backwards), and sat down on a hard floor rather heavily. Knew immediately I hurt my back, but thought it was soft tissue damage.
Bad period followed - unable to move at all and in bad pain, got my GP to send me some strong pain killers - upshot that it was a month before an MRI showed I had actually had a stress fracture in my spine.
My GP's practice went into overdrive when this result reached them, upped my ADCAL intake from one to two a day and put me on Alendronic Acid. When I asked for a Dexa scan was told 'No need - a stress fracture in a woman of my age (79 yrs then), could only mean osteoarthritus.
When I moved, I again asked for a Dexa scan and had it refused again - and remained on this high dose of calcium daily.
With my recent diagnosis of Acromegaly, I am having so many different types of tests (blood, MRI's, ECT's, et.etc) as they try to determine that damage I have suffered from the fact that this condition has been diagnosed so late. I am being very well looked after by NHS.
At my appt with Endocrinologist last week and I was told that my Calcium levels were TOO HIGH!!!! was told to stop taking Edcal at all immediately (Consultant will arrange with GP for me to be given just Vit D tabs now). Further check on this in two or three weeks time.
I had not known that too much calcium can also be dangerous - hope just stopping these tabs will sort this out for me, as I do like my yoghurts and hard cheese is one of my secret food pleasures.
Anyone else out there been told that their calcium levels are too high???
