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High calcium in urine
Hi.
I hope everyone is doing good. It is too quiet around here and I miss you, my friends.
I got higher then the normal - calcium in urine of 24 hours. The normal is under 250 and mine is 306. Does anyone else have it ?
I read a long list of possible reasons, one is steroids. I am on both pred 5mg and budezon 6mg. Can it be related ?
(I dont eat that much calcium).
Can it be related to wg ?
Other reasons in the list are not so nice... is there anything else that I need to check now ?
I sent an email to my endocrinologist but didnt get any answer from him. Yet ?
Thank you.
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Re: High calcium in urine
Originally Posted by
Alysia
Hi.
I hope everyone is doing good. It is too quiet around here and I miss you, my friends.
I got higher then the normal - calcium in urine of 24 hours. The normal is under 250 and mine is 306. Does anyone else have it ?
I read a long list of possible reasons, one is steroids. I am on both pred 5mg and budezon 6mg. Can it be related ?
(I dont eat that much calcium).
Can it be related to wg ?
Other reasons in the list are not so nice... is there anything else that I need to check now ?
I sent an email to my endocrinologist but didnt get any answer from him. Yet ?
Thank you.
I wonder are you developing kidney stones?
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The medicine angle rings a faint bell, but I am sorry I don't remember specifics, and I don't have my notes anymore. While you wait for the doc to get back to you, what about your water intake? Has it been hotter lately where you are? Just thoughts. (& best wishes & hugs!)
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Thanks Natti and WTW. I drink colder lately but maybe we have too much stone in our poor water ?
The endocrinologist called me and said that it is prob a result of the pred ...
Dr. : how long are you going to take it ?
Me : all my life ?
So he wants me to repeat the urine test a month later and then to come for a check. The good news are that my parathyroid is ok.
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Re: High calcium in urine
An update: I repeated the test of calcium in urine taken during 24 hours, a month later. Now it came extremely higher: 429. So, not good.
I went to see my endocrinologist. He doesnt know what it means. He said to stop the calcium pills for a month and repeat the test. He said it might be because of the calcium pills. He said it can also be the result of the steroids. Then he started to scratch his head and checked a lot in the computer and said something like wondering if it can be WG related. He didnt want to explain what he suspected.
He sent me to do ultrasound of the kidneys which I did today. My creatinine is fine. He said that the risk of high calcium in urine is kidneys' stones.
Does anyone here had/ have such high calcium in urine/ 24 hours collection ?
Does anyone here have any WG involvement which is related to this findings ?
Any thoughts are welcome.
I will see my wg dr. next month so I hope he will have some answers.
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I went to see my wg dr. I told him about the endocrinologist's question, and if the high calcium in the urine might be related to wg. He said that it is not related to taking steroids. He explained to me that the kidneys are consisted from glomerulus and tubules. Creatinine checks only the glomerulus so although my creatinine is ok, it is a possibility that wg affects my kidneys' tubules. Even if it does, he is not concerened about it.
I will check again the calcium in the urine next week, after not taking the calcium pills almost a month now.
I have weired pains, in my legs and pelvis and I wonder if it might be because I stopped the calcium pills ?
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Sorry to hear that. Hope things become clearer and you begin to feel better.
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Now that you have stopped your calcium tablets, you should have a bone density scan, to see how the bones are coping.
Hopefully your leg and pelvis pains, don't last very long, and they are just getting used to the idea of no added calcium
Keep Smiling
Michelle
Live your life in a way that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip - WILL ROGERS
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Re: High calcium in urine
Originally Posted by
mishb
Now that you have stopped your calcium tablets, you should have a bone density scan, to see how the bones are coping.
Hopefully your leg and pelvis pains, don't last very long, and they are just getting used to the idea of no added calcium
Thanks Michelle, you are very kind ❤
I only stopped the calcium pills until doing the test to see if it might be their impact. I will do the test next week.
The pains are almost gone. I checked also in my colitis group and in turned out some have those pains when the stomach is too crazy (mine was for couple of days).
I tend to think that everyrhing is WG related... but it is not.
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Originally Posted by
Alysia
Thanks Michelle, you are very kind ❤
I only stopped the calcium pills until doing the test to see if it might be their impact. I will do the test next week.
The pains are almost gone. I checked also in my colitis group and in turned out some have those pains when the stomach is too crazy (mine was for couple of days).
I tend to think that everyrhing is WG related... but it is not.
I think we all tend to blame WG first
Hopefully next weeks test will be all clear
Keep Smiling
Michelle
Live your life in a way that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip - WILL ROGERS
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