PMS Vitamin D and Calcium

suzy_g

Night song your name wasnt put with the above quote??

suzy_g

Ialso think ted said 50000iu once aweek for 8weeks and twice a month after, nothing like the amounts IE 50000-60.000 taken over a number of years??

nightsong

suzy_g wrote:

Night song your name wasnt put with the above quote??

Please look at post 36.

Goodness this thread is hard work!

Paul_Varjak

nightsong wrote:

Still think that Ted's advice is perfectly sound and harmless?

To be fair, Ted is not suggesting a daily intake of Vitamin D that is as high as the article you quote suggests, is toxic.

But I do agree that he does seem to profer 'medical advice' which is against forum rules.

nightsong

suzy_g wrote:

Ialso think ted said 50000iu once aweek for 8weeks and twice a month after, nothing like the amounts IE 50000-60.000 taken over a number of years??

"There is wide individual variation in the amount of vitamin D that causes hypervitaminosis"

My personal experience of, for example, taking vitamin B6 is that I experienced toxic side-effects at a twentieth of the does that was at that time supposed to be perfectly safe. Now of course the 'safe dose' has been dramatically reduced.

But hey, you all know that Ted has done his research and is an impeccable source of medical advice, so who am I to dare to suggest otherwise?

suzy_g

I really dont understand all this anti ted we can all make up our own minds it we want ted advise or not

Ted_Hutchinson

Risk assessment for vitamin D -- Hathcock et al. 85 (1): 6 ...


Healthy men seem to use 3000–5000 IU cholecalciferol/d,

Seren_2

Before any advice for herbal/vitamin/minerals is given a record must be made of any medications taken, this could be life threatening if people take advice from someone who is not medically trained.

A lady was near death last week in the hospital that I work. A friend told her to drink chamomile tea, which she did, she had severe thinning of the blood, she was taking Warfarin.

Ted_Hutchinson

Seren wrote:

Before any advice for herbal/vitamin/minerals

Check Interactions - DrugDigest
Drug Interaction Checker from Drugs.com

There are plenty of these on the internet that can be used to check out interactions with prescribed medicines.

The main suggestions that may be deduced from the information I provide have an exceptionally good interactions record Cholecalciferol, omega 3 , Carnitine and green tea are almost bound to enhance the actions of any prescription item rather than the reverse though regularly using such drug interactions checkers is a useful activity as it may draw up interactions overlooked by your health professionals.
Be aware that Prescription errors in UK critical care unitsOver the 4-week period, 21 589 new prescriptions (or 15.3 new prescriptions per patient) were written. Eighty-five per cent (18 448 prescriptions) were error free, but 3141 (15%) prescriptions had one or more errors (2.2 erroneous prescriptions per patient, or 145.5 erroneous prescriptions per 1000 new prescriptions). The five most common incorrect prescriptions were for potassium chloride (10.2% errors), heparin (5.3%), magnesium sulphate (5.2%), paracetamol (3.2%) and propofol (3.1%). Most of the errors were minor or would have had no adverse effects but 618 (19.6%) errors were considered significant, serious or potentially life threatening. Four categories (not writing the order according to the British National Formulary recommendations, an ambiguous medication order, non-standard nomenclature and writing illegibly) accounted for 47.9% of all errors. Although prescription rates (and error rates) in critical care appear higher than elsewhere in hospital, the number of potentially serious errors is similar to other areas of high-risk practice.

You are far more likely to have an error with prescribed medications than with over the counter stuff.

Morglin

shokadelika wrote:

Paul_Varjak wrote:

What makes me MAD or SAD

When someone has made 300 posts on this WHOLE site and about 15 of them (sic!)
are concerning health issues when they offer no (alternative) advice yet seek to discredit a regular poster on these boards who is (extremely) well researched or that at least has managed to "raise peoples awareness to outlying/alternative treatments for their condition"
Which Is why People come her in the first place:

the Medical Establishment has let them down or offers NO alternatives!.

It does make you wonder what the real agenda may be here for some of the posters. :rolleyes:

Anyway, back to the point of this thread:

Conventional medicine has, over the years, done me more harm than good, and I took a more holistic route years ago with brilliant results - I can't cure my disability, but I did control it (which is as good as it gets).:T

But, in a weak moment I agreed with my previous GP to have the flu jab (which I had previously been advised not to have)......well, it reacted badly with my totally loopy immune system, and the upshot is it left me with another long term and very painful disability. (Gee thanks, conventional medicine lol)

The only control for it is steroids, which I absolutely refuse to take - so I needed to try and find another route to stabilise it all as it meant the two disabilities combined left me either in pain or with paralysis of any/all bits - a bit of a nuisance, to say the least.:eek:

Anyway, I contacted Ted (we're old friends), and asked him for some suggestions - and he sent me his thoughts on a new regime.

I checked out contra's (no problem), but before I started, I ran the idea past my neurologist, my rheumatologist and my (new) GP - they all know my enthusiasm for alternative therapies and looked at it all for me.

They ALL concluded that the regime couldn't possible harm me (no toxic problems with any of it existed, in their view), it could well help and was a good idea.

So, I started it - and I'm starting to feel more on the "up" generally, although it's too early too say how effective it may be long term.

The thing is that we're all adults, and surely all capable of checking out for ourselves what may help us.

We don't need "nanny post monitors" saving us from information s/he may not agree with.;)

It's silly sneering at alternative medicine just for the hell of it - if it works, it works.

But, I would add that I think to get the full benefit of any vitamins etc., you need to incorporate other things as a way of life - non processed diet and relaxation techniques (for example).

I didn't find anything helped PMS until I had a hysterectomy, and I must admit to using conventional medicine for the menopause - I wouldn't be without my HRT.:j

So, best idea is to check out alternatives (and any contra's) if you want to go that route and possibly discuss with your GP etc.,

For those who prefer conventional medicines, well it's not compulsory to take alternatives.:rolleyes:

Lin