vitamin d too high

[feelingcrazy13]

I have two thyroid nodules that are benign and no thyroid level problems. Last winter I had a vitamin d level of 18 so I started taking 50,000 a week for 8 weeks. This brought it up to 33 and then I started  taking 2000 a day plus a prenatal because we knew we  wanted another kid soon. In the summer is a still just around 35 so I started taking 4000 a day thinking I needed to be higher. In late September at my physical my vitamin d ha  gone up drastically to 110 so I stopped the supplements and was going to recheck in 3-4 months. I kept taking the  prenatal though and got pregnant a couple weeks after stopping the supplements. I just got retested this week and was even higher now at 156. I haven't had any symptoms really except one  That are also pregnancy symptoms like constipation an  abdominal pain with that or higher heart rate and palpitations. I have a high heart rate an  palpitations anyway that I take medicine for normally and pregnancy always makes it worse. my only weird symptom was yesterday my eyelid started twitching. My calcium wasn't checked yet because  That hadn't been thought to be a problem before. The doctor was  going to check out things because  he didn't know I was  pregnant and  get back with me. My question is, can pregnancy cause  parathyroid issues that could cause the vitamin d to rise like this? Even though my thyroid levels are always normal, during pregnancy and nursing I always have more thyroid symptoms and I get checked again. I am worries  about the baby's health and I nervous waiting to hear from the doctor.

[Barb135]

You should contact your doctor and get your calcium levels tested, even if you don't have a lot of symptoms.  I wouldn't assume that symptoms are pregnancy related, even though they might be common in pregnancy.  

[feelingcrazy13]

Yeah, my doctor was going to order a retest of my vitamin d after he looked into it more an  I was  going to ask him to do calcium also. I don't really have symptoms of high calcium except for those that can also be pregnancy symptoms. This makes it hard to tell if I should seek medical attention right away since my doctor is aware of the situation.

[Red_Star]

Excerpts from the Vitamin D council article "Am I getting too much vitamin D?"

"Vitamin D is fat-soluble, which means your body has a hard time getting rid of it if you take too much. When you take large amounts of vitamin D, your liver produces too much of a chemical called 25(OH)D.

When your 25(OH)D levels are too high, this can cause high levels of calcium to develop in your blood. High blood calcium is a condition called hypercalcemia.

The symptoms of hypercalcemia include:

feeling sick or being sick
poor appetite or loss of appetite
feeling very thirsty
passing urine often
constipation or diarrhea
abdominal pain
muscle weakness or pain
feeling confused
feeling tired

In some rare diseases, you may be at risk of hypercalcemia even if you have low vitamin D levels and haven’t taken much vitamin D. These diseases include primary hyperparathyroidism, sarcoidosis and a few other rare diseases."

"If your level is greater than 150 ng/ml, this is considered too high and potentially toxic. Seek medical attention if you have symptoms of hypercalcemia (listed above). If you do not have symptoms, consider lowering your level."