Calcium Treatment Report
See also: Dolomite, Mineral Supplements
What is Calcium?
Calcium is a mineral essential to the development and maintenance of bones and teeth. As a supplement it is available in several different formulations including calcium carbonate (chalk), citrate, and phosphate. Calcium supplements may be recommended to people at risk of osteoperosis.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| General health | 360 |
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21 | |
| Other | 83 |
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8 | |||
| Osteoporosis | 47 | 0 | |||||
| Osteopenia | 18 |
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2 | ||||
| Slow my MS progress | 17 |
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3 | ||||
| Slow my ALS progress | 13 | 0 |
See all 670 patients currently taking Calcium
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Calcium. See all 59 dosages ►
| 1250mg as needed | 600 mg as needed | 600mg as needed | daily | 3 mg monthly | 0.125 mg daily | 1 intl units daily | 1 mg daily | 1 tps. daily | 2 cap(s) daily | 2 mg daily | 2 tab(s) daily | 20 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 60 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 1200 mg weekly | 200 intl units daily | 200 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 315 mg daily | 318 mg daily | 333 mg daily | 334 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 550 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 625 mg daily | 630 mg daily | 650 mg daily | 666 mg daily | 750 mg daily | 800 mg daily | 900 g daily | 900 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 1050 mg daily | 1200 intl units daily | 1200 mg daily | 1221 mg daily | 1250 mg daily | 1280 mg daily | 1300 mg daily | 1400 mg daily | 1500 cap(s) daily | 1500 mg daily | 1600 mg daily | 1800 mg daily | 2000 mg daily | 2400 mg daily | 2500 mg daily | 3000 mg daily | 3600 mg daily | 3750 mg daily | 5000 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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29 | 57% |
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Personal research
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4 | 8% |
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Doctor's advice
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4 | 8% |
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Side effects too severe
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4 | 8% |
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Not indicated
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3 | 6% |
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 6% |
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Expense
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2 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.
Patient Evaluations
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- notgivenup
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- notgivenup
- 600 mg daily
- since Aug 20, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Dirty Butter
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: none
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- Dirty Butter
- 600 mg daily
- since Sep 15, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Other
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Don't bother taking more than 2 400mg doses a day. The body just eliminates higher concentrations. Also, it's better to use gelcaps than tablets, because the... See full evaluation
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- Nyrsaeans
- 600 mg daily
- since Sep 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips good to take See full evaluation
See all 36 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.