can u OD w/ to much calcium??

How much is to much calcium. My friend takes the petite calcium & also the chewable citrate ones. She had degenerative disc disease so she thinks she needs more. She is a 2 yr post op RNY Thanks Brenda

To much of anything - even though it's good - can be tooo much as well.  It doesn't sound like she is taking too much calcium but if she has doubts - she should ask her PCP since he knows her history. Best of luck.

I don't think a WLS person can EVER get too much calcium CITRATE. We are bottomless calcium, iron and vit D pits.

Calcium CITRATE also tends to help prevent calcium oxalate kidney stones, whereas calcium carbonate promotes them.

I take 4000mg in capsules + 2000 in powder (UpCal D) + some of the BA cinnamon chews with apple slices as s snack. Couple thousand mg there. Plus extr dry form vit D3 (dry form).

I get labs every 6 months and am very picky where the levels are. So far, all 3 of the levels I watch are PER-FECT. My endo wonders how I target a number, then GET it in labs.

True, I am a very distal RNY, but 13 yrs out, so by some theories, I'd need less not more. However, as I said, Iam very picky about where my levels are. I don't want "good enough" or "fine", I want what I want.

You will be told, someetimes by docs, that "too much calcium causes kidney stones", so just be aware that refers to calcium carbonate. Many docs do notknow the difference, much to my shock and horror.

thank- you. your insight is very important to a lot of ppl.Brenda

THANK YOU!

I always want ppl to do all the smart stuff I did and skip the stupid stuff. LOL

When the urologist told me my urine sample indicated I was making stones, and to swtich from calcium carbonate to citrate, I just figured she didn't know WLS ppl and in one ear and out the other. Changed for 90 days. Calcium level in labs went down. So, I went back on carbonate.

Soooooo, I got my kidney stone for Christmas 3 months later and then got my dx with osteoporosis 3 yrs afer that. Had I listened, I might still have bones and maybe not had stones.

Like I said, do the smart stuff, skip the stupid stuff I did.