Posted by Frog on November 10, 2003, at 17:17:23
In reply to Re: Vitamin C maximum dosage for important lack ??? » Frog, posted by Larry Hoover on November 1, 2003, at 9:34:42
Hi Lar,
Sorry for the delay of my answer
I am only answering now because I was waiting for the results of my last "vitamin c" blood test.
In my previous message , I was telling you that my liver enzymes analysis was ok and then you told me that "Kidney function is urinalysis, as measured by creatine clearance" and I remember now that I had a "creatine clearance" analysis from last september.My results were :
8.47nmol/24h (Normal rate : 13,3 to 22,1 nmol/24h)
0.96 g/24h (Normal rate : 1.5 to 2.5 g/24h)This result comes from 1.5L urine 24h analysis , I have to precise that the bottle was filled regularly but not all my urine was in it since the bottle was not big enough (1.5L capacity) , so a small portion was not in but I think the most important was that I did it regularly during 24 hours .
Regarding vitamin c analysis , I forgot to mention something that may be interesting .The laboratory where I did the blood test told me they were not performing analysis of vitamin c themselves and they will send my blood to another laboratory(let's call it lab "B") , but the lab "B" didn't perform vitamin c analysis too , so my blood was finally send to another laboratory which performs this analysis. So , could my low rate vitamin c be explained by the fact that my blood went through several laboratories before being analysed , I mean the fact that it took some time had maybe had effects on blood content ? what do you think ?
My personnal opinion is that tubes that contains blood are supposed to be well closed normally.After two weeks with taking vitamin C supplement (2g/day) , I did another test in another laboratory (from the paper , it seems my blood was also forwarded to another laboratory) and my result were :
My rate : 75mcmol/l
Normal rate : 28 to 57 mcmol/lSo , my vitamin C went back to normal , but I have not felt any change at all , I am still experiencing extreme fatigue 24/7 , low energy........and all the bad things that depression brings with it.
I was thinking of increasing much greater my daily vitamin C intake (currently at 2g/day) but I just read your advice regarding selenium supplement so I think I should give it a try but I must be sure that my 1st result of low vitamin c was not a mistake.
I am about to see my endocrinologist next monday and will keep you informed about what I am going to do.Thanks again for your help
Regards,
Pierre
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