Using online labs it's super cheap to get it done yourself for less than $50/test. Not worth dealing with insurance BS and your doctor's likely nonsensical ravings about it, just do it and reimburse using your HSA if you have one.
Cost of doctor visit + cost of inflated test (likely not covered or runs up against your deductible) > paying for it yourself.
If you want to argue that the American healthcare system is messed up and that they don't believe in agency for individuals to order their own tests and do their own research, I'm with you. But we live in the reality we got, so... just kinda is how it is.
You get a doctor's prescription (from a Florida doctor, good for anywhere in the country) and instructions to go to your nearest Labcorp for a blood draw. So make sure you have a Labcorp near you.
Yeah these all use basically the white labeled services behind them, and are all more or less good. Don't want to endorse any of them but I use one in the footnotes.
This is definitely not true. Elevated blood calcium and creatinine levels are definitely possible if you take too much, and people are sensitive at different rates.
I tried taking some Vitamin D alone, and I rapidly got a very uncomfortable sensitivity in my teeth. I thought maybe this has something to do with what it does to calcium.
So I tried a combination calcium + Vitamin D capsule, and it didn't seem to have the same effect.
Maybe the second one is safe, but I'm wondering what was going on and if there are potential drawbacks to either one.
That's weird I've been taking vitamin D (2000iu) per day and haven't had anything like that. I do get lots of calcium though via cheese and dairy products (I'm one of the few people I know that will actually drink a glass of milk fearlessly)
