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I had a total thyroidectomy and my para-thyroids went into shock and shut down. While in hospital, I was put on calcium citrate with a joint therapy of Rocaltrol due to a vit D deficiency. Every time I would take the calcium citrate, my fingers, hands,feet, toes and part of my face would go numb and into a temporary paralysis. I would then have to go directly to a iv of calcium which calmed the sy...

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Anonymous | 45-54 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
9/28/2012
Condition: Low Amount of Calcium in the Blood
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I had a total thyroidectomy and my para-thyroids went into shock and shut down. While in hospital, I was put on calcium citrate with a joint therapy of Rocaltrol due to a vit D deficiency. Every time I would take the calcium citrate, my fingers, hands,feet, toes and part of my face would go numb and into a temporary paralysis. I would then have to go directly to a iv of calcium which calmed the symptoms. Once discontinuing the calcium citrate and placed on calcium carbonate the symptoms never returned and I no longer needed iv calcium. My question is...What could have caused this? My doctors can only think that maybe perhaps there is some preservative in the product or something in the manufacturing that may have cause this reaction. Read More Read Less

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