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When I ingest Calcium I suffer from the following symptoms for about 24 hours afterwards:
* Restless Leg Syndrome
* Joint pain
* Lower back pain
* Muscle tension / Stiff Muscles
* I shake when deliberately tensing my muscles
* Mood swings
* Depression
* Anxiety
* Mild paranoia
* Anger
* METALIC TASTE IN MOUTH
* Mental cloudiness
* Butterflies in stomach
* Gastrointestinal problems
* Fatigued
* Confused / Disoriented
* Staring spells
* Trouble expressing myself / Speaking / Talking / Focusing
* Mild stuttering
* etc.
QUESTIONS:
1. Is this an allergy to Calcium?
2. Is it GENUINELY possible to be "ALLERGIC" to calcium?
3. Anyone know the CAUSE?
4. Anyone know of how I can ingest calcium and avoid the symptoms?
-I know people with a typical allergy can just take an anti-allergy pill. Would it work for a calcium allergy?
5. What can I do to permanently overcome the allergy?
I've tried NAET and it didn't work.
Someone please help me. I'm extremely motivated to get better and I would 100% appreciate any and all advice, answers, suggestions, and comments.
THANK YOU ALL!!!!!
PS: Is there any significance in the metalic taste in my mouth? Not sure why that happens or if it might indicate something. Maybe some of you guys have some knowledge about why this happens.- Re: Calcium Allergy #92351
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,214,539"What can I do to permanently overcome the allergy?"
Drink milk instead or do you get a reaction to any food with calcium in it?- Re: Calcium Allergy 10selection10
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,214,694Milk gives me the worst reaction!
I found out it was calcium itself when I noticed the symptoms happening whenever I took a pure calcium supplement. I then noticed I felt better when I stopped and avoided foods high in calcium altogether. I never take calcium supplements, it's not from that.
These symptoms happen even when I take almonds.
I bought a high quality multi-vitamin from EOR hoping that I wouldn't get a reaction from the calcium in it, but unfortunately I did. The only multi-vitamin I can take is one from the health food store that doesn't have any calcium in it. I've run out a while ago though and dunno if they'll still have it.
:(
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If it is a calcium allergy, it must be localized to your digestive system. Otherwise, your body would be rejecting your bones and teeth and your nervous system would shut down because calcium ions are part of the mechanism for transmitting neural impulses. Do any of the diarrhea or gastric upset medications help when you ingest calcium? Vitamin D will help your body make use of what calcium it does get. Maybe you could take an osteoporosis medication like Boniva.- Re: Calcium Allergy 10selection10
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This is a reply to # 1,215,711Gabapentin helps, which is an anti-seizure medication I take for anxiety. It's a calcium-channel blocker.
Other calcium channel blockers sucks as propranolol and benzodiazapenes such as valium and alprazolam help too. But not completely.- Re: Calcium Allergy #92351
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This is a reply to # 1,215,921Gaba only treats the seizures, right? The other symptoms are still there? Too bad there's no natural alternative for gaba because it's expensive and has side effects. The few natural versions of the benzo drugs aren't nearly as good. The old laudanum cooked from poppy plants might work, but of course the poppies are illegal.
Since you're reacting to almonds, any chance that it's a nut allergy? Nut proteins can be found in many foods
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This is a reply to # 1,214,539Hi 10selection10 - I'm no scientist, but I think it would be difficult and highly unlikely for a person to be allergic to calcium. I'm sure that the NAET believers would vehemently disagree with me, but I think that therapy is worthless (did it for a year with NO results) and only works for those that have illnesses that are psychosomatic. Things that come to the top of my head regarding your post:
1) Vitamins, can be full of fillers that contain nasties; it is very possible that you are reacting to something else in the formulation; and
2) If it is in fact good calcium, I'm wondering if somehow it is helping expel heavy metals that are lodged in your body, hence the metallic taste you keep getting.
My vote is that you chelate your body of heavy metals and get your calcium through foods (try organic, deep leafy greens--do a search on the web re high calcium foods). I think the best chelator is liquid zeolite. You can get a good price here: docsprefer.com. Good luck to you!- Re: Calcium Allergy 10selection10
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This is a reply to # 1,214,929I react to calcium in food too. Almonds and milk create the biggest reaction.
2) I had a hair mineral analysis done and all of the heavy metals were in range.- Re: Calcium Allergy MsPep
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Wow - I'm sorry/that bites. I get allergy shots for foods, molds, and a whole lot of other substances (dust mites, candida, etc.) - I will ask next time I am at my doc whether they have shots or drops for calcium allergy b/c the only other effective treatment is avoidance and that would be difficult to do.- Re: Calcium Allergy 10selection10
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This is a reply to # 1,215,924Hi 10--Ok - so I saw my allergy doc today and I asked him if it was possible for a person to be allergic to calcium and he at first said no, and then he himmed and hawed and then said it would be rare, and then again he said no and that it was likely something else that you were reacting to. I wish I had a better answer for you. I do still think it is strange that you are getting a metalic taste from it --among the other symptoms, and I am not so sure--regardless of your hair analysis, that you don't have heavy metal poisoning and when you ingest calcium your body releases metals and they flood your system. Have you made any progress on trying to figure out what's going on? This may be far fetched, but another thought I had was that if your body already has too much calcium (for whatever reason) and you ingest even more, it further offsets some mineral you are short on already, such as magnesium or potassium, which you may be severely lacking. I think mag deficiency can cause the symptoms you are talking about. I'm pretty sure that if you could find an environmental med. doc he or she could help you figure out this mystery. In the meantime - hang in there friend.
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This is a reply to # 1,222,639Interesting... "He himmed and hawed and then said it would be rare"
So at one point or another he must have thought of something to form that conclusion. Maybe since he's personally never seen someone with a calcium allergy in his life he ended up leaning on the "no" answer in the end.
My Potassium levels are normal, and my Calcium & magnesium levels are normal (According to both a blood test and hair mineral analysis). Plus I'm taking supplemental magnesium anyways.
But I absolutely know it is calcium... I just know the feeling! It happens from EVERY single type of calcium supplement I've ever tried. There was never any particular filler in there that I have associated with that feeling. What's more is I can take a calcium-free multivitamin, and practically any supplement out there have NO negative reactions. Immediately when there is calcium in a multi I notice that strange feeling creeping over me. It only happens in foods with calcium on the label too. This is nuts I'm telling you.
I am making *slight* progress I think. I've been working really hard to change my lifestyle in all respects so if there is an underlying problem causing this, these other things could help.
Some things I noticed that lessen the symptoms:
* Nystatin... for some reason when I take it I feel so much better. It's hard to convince a doctor to prescribe it for longer than 10 days though, so I'm back to feeling like complete crap when I'm off it.
* Homeopathy - Calcium Carbonate.... I've never really been into homeopathy but I decided that if in homeopathy like cures like, surely a homeopathic calcium preparation would help? And it seems it is helping a little. But this very well could be placebo... I need to give it a few weeks to wait for the placebo effect to wear off. I'll probably need an extremely potent homeopathic dosage of calcium carbonate too if it genuinely is working. Probably one of the "M" potencies.
* And some other things that could have reduced fungus in my body such as Enemas, probiotics, and colonix's fiber formula.
The calcium allergy could just be from a leaky gut.
I dunno what is helping though to be 100% honest. I guess a little bit of everything. I'm bombarding my body with helpful stuff. I have no patience, I want to get better.
Still the calcium allergy is still obviously there. I cannot take any calcium without getting a reaction. What I'm doing must only be lessening the resulting symptoms.
"If you could find an environmental med. doc he or she could help you figure out this mystery."
How? Do I need a referral? I've never really been to any type of allergy specialists etc. in my life other than a NAET practitioner, so not sure how to go about finding one. Plus I'm embarrassed to say to conventional doctors that I think I'm allergic to Calcium. I'll be called a nut case or hypochondriac or something. >_>
Thanks for the help.
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I really believe biotin is the best possible thing for fungus.Take lots you may have to go up to huge amounts but start with 10 mg a day you will see so much difference in a couple of weeks, after that take colostrum lozenges to start healing the gut, it will take months but keep at it because week to week you will see slight improvement until about 4 or 5 months later you will look back and realize you have no symtoms anymore.The good thing about doing it this way is you do not have to change the way you eat, the worse you eat just means the more biotin you have to take, some people might have to take 30 or 40 mg a day.
good luck- Re: Calcium Allergy 10selection10
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This is a reply to # 1,222,688Thanks for the information. I'll be experimenting with these two supplements soon and see how they help me.
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This is a reply to # 1,222,658Hi 10 - Don't get me wrong--I completely believe that you are feeling the symptoms that you describe when you ingest calcium. Trust me--I have plenty of weird symptoms going on all the time and know better than to doubt what you say is the truth but I do agree that regular MDs are skeptical of those with symptoms that they don't understand--to hell with them!
I find it interesting that you feel better on nystatin. Although, from what I understand, if you are trying to kill systemic fungus, 10 days on nystatin will not be enough, and no traditional western-med practicing doctor will give you antifungals, unless they see it on the outside of you, like fungal toenails. My environ. doc has me on 2 months of ketaconazole and we didn't even see yeast on the results from my recent GI panel--he said sometimes, like 5% of the time it won't show up on test results (although it did show big time about 4 years back on one of my panels).
While I don't believe in NAET--although I do have friend who just decided give it a whirl one more time, so I am trying to keep my mind open--I believe in homeopathy, so you may be onto something there and it certainly couldn't hurt.
Where would you find an E. doctor? Well, you could start by contacting the American Board of Environmental Medicine. Unfortunately I would not know if you need a referal or not--that's an insurance question and you would need to first find a doctor in your area and then contact your insurance and ask them if you need a referral from your referring physician, if in fact you have one. I went on the board's website (link below) and their list of docs throughout the states is under construction, but you can email them and just ask for doctors in your state. If that doesn't work out you could call my doctor's office and ask if they know someone in your area. Let me know if you want that info.
http://www.americanboardofenvironmentalmedicine.org/physician_listing.htm
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This is a reply to # 1,223,424I was lucky enough to have a physical symptom so I wasn't looked at like a crazy person. I had a white coating on my tongue.
Btw, here is a really interesting study on Nystatin:
http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/3/258
I actually live in Canada, and I checked that there is no Environmental Doctor in my area on that website. Edmonton, Canada is the closest city to me with an environmental doctor listed.- Re: Calcium Allergy MsPep
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Oops. Sorry - I don't know why I assumed you lived in the states. So, are you going to go to the doctor in Edmondton?
That is an interesting article--thank you. My only issue with nystatin is that it only works in the intestinal tract--if you have systemic fungus, another medication is needed to erradicate it.
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This is a reply to # 1,225,289I'm not gonna travel 5 hours to see a doctor. No doctor is that helpful.
I read somewhere that nystatin gets absorbed into the blood if used for prolonged periods of 2+ months.
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This is a reply to # 1,214,539Perhaps the calcium is causing a release of lead?
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2003/ca-lead.cfm
Lead exposure in adults...
http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/lead/hlthcare.htm
If you believe this to be the problem... Newport may have some suggestions for you.- Re: Calcium 10selection10
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This is a reply to # 1,223,548I doubt it. I'm taking a BUNCH of supplements that help detox metals, toxins, etc.
Surely these other things would have caused symptoms as well.
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