The Anonymous Widower

Calcium and Vitamin D

Yesterday afternoon, I chewed a calcium tablet and took a small one for vitamin D, after a chat with my doctor about the results of the blood tests.

I hadn’t expected a quick effect, but did I get one last night, as I felt a lot better in the evening, with a lot less pain in my mouth and arm. I went to bed at half-ten and slept well until six in the morning, which is usually my time to start the day.

Typing seems a bit better this morning, so who knows if the pills have had an affect.  I can’t believe one of each can bring an improvement. It could be just psychological, in that I now know there’s nothing wrong!

Here’s hoping that they did.

Today, I’m off to London to see Ipswich play at Millwall.  I shall be exploring hidden parts of London for this blog.  So let’s see how my body holds up today!

If nothing though, I would argue that everybody needs a full set of blood tests at about forty to see if they have any underlying problems.  If I had it earlier, they might have picked up my coeliac disease, but reading about calcium deficiency and its symptoms, I may have suffered from that too at times.  I have always tended to have pins and needles in my left hand and even saw the doctor about it once.  We put it down to the break in the arm caused by the bully at school.  But could it have been a calcium deficiency?

Also, as I feel used to feel that all gluten-free bread was made from cardboard, I didn’t eat it.  so was I getting my recommended dose of cslcium, as by law bread in the UK has to have added calcium?

I knew that there was something wrong, as I lay in hospital and wanted them to do a full blood test because I felt it was a coeliac problem.  Should all of those recovering from a stroke, be given a full set of blood tests, to make sure they don’t have any underlying problems that are hindering their recovery?

September 21, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Health, Sport, Transport/Travel | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Football, Ipswich Town, London, Stroke