Calcium and electrolytes

[Shannon]

A resolution?

The main electrolytes in the blood are calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium. And then there's the water variable.

It's pretty common for people to report high calcium symptoms when starting vitamin K. What if the increased production of osteocalcin (from the A/D/K combo) increased the calcium concentration of my blood, which made me suddenly really thirsty and dehydrated? Would my skin showed it first?

I was crazy thirsty all day yesterday and today. Overnight, I had trouble sleeping, which could have been low mag compared to my new high calcium level. Today, I've been drinking water all day long and my hands are almost back to normal. I tried an electrolyte packet, and it tasted REALLY good - implying that my body really wanted the potassium. I also have an odd sodium indicator (don't ask) that my tailbone hurts and feels bruised when I'm low on sodium. This morning it was fine, but after the potassium it's starting to hurt again.

Electrolytes need to be balanced. If I was low on everything (pretty much) then raised calcium, then raised water, then potassium, it'd stand to reason that sodium would get pretty low. If I didn't have the means of carrying lots of calcium in my blood before the A/D/K, then a reasonable adaptive mechanism seems to be to decrease blood volume so that what's there goes a longer way. My blood pressure has always been low - in fact, it just tested at 90/50 a couple days ago at my 39 week midwife appointment. I'm curious where it will land when I'm done re-hydrating myself. I have other various test results/symptoms that have left me assuming that my blood volume is a lot lower than it should be, but I won't go into them. One biggie, though, is that the lunulae on my fingernails are reappearing. For as long as I've been at this healing stuff, I've only had the two on my thumbs, with a third occasionally poking up on my right index finger. Today, I've definitely got 4, with a 5th looking promising.

I'm excited, it all seems to fit. And means I can keep up the vit A/K combo, possibly without as many scary bad symptoms! The question is, will it still fit in a few days once all the symptoms settle? lol