I am a 53 years old male with gad with depression, used to take psychiatry drugs for many years, off and on, since the age of 22. At the age of 50 I stopped all psychiatric drugs, which included antidepressants, benzos & psychotic drugs and replaced them with vitamin d3 of 20000 iu + magnesium + vitamin k under guidance of vitamin d council of Dr. John cannell. Everything was going smoothly smoothly for more than 2 years then I decided to stop vitamin d3 to check how long it takes for me to again need it, that was in dec 2019. After 3 months or so I started getting occasional panic attacks back but as I was trying to buy vitamin d3 I couldn't get my usual brand due to lighten, meanwhile I tried other brands but none of them were effective, this only increased my anxiety. Thinking that vitamin d3 I was taking was not sufficient I started taking vitamin d3 6 lac iu ampoules orally, after every week to 10 days I kept taking these ampoules. After that something terrible happened. I started getting disoriented, severe back pain, lower back mostly and even other parts of body became painful, calf muscles would pain, and out of the blue I got a spike in blood pressure in last week tuesday night while I was sleeping, I was worried and I believed this was something to do with high dose of vitamin d3, again thursday evening I got spike of high bp, both the time it was around 180/100-110. After meal I was getting dehydrated quickly. On friday I was advised to take stamlo 20 but I had terrible panic attack, that too during day, I rushed to nearby hospital, I went to emergency ward where they took my ecg which turned out to be normal, problem was high pulse and bp due to panic attack. They gave me anti anxiety and bp pills but I avoided taking them and instead cut down on calcium rich foods and drank lot of water. Saturday, sunday was fine. On sunday I got my blood tested and found out that lipids, thyroid, kidney tests and liver test all of them were normal only thing is vitamin d levels, as expected, were very high, 228.73 ng/ml, as good as vitamin d toxicity. Fortunately it had not affected other organs adversely. But this toxicity alone caused many other symptoms, now mind has become oriented but sever lower back ache is still there and calf muscle pain and lethargy or fatigue, also today I had 2 cups of tea in a short space and after that again there was spike in blood pressure, around 178/113. It was terrible feeling, with previous experience of stamlo 20 (panic attack), I avoided taking it and instead took etizolam which was prescribed by emergency ward in the hospital. Probably, this is all happening because of vitamin d toxicity. I never had hypertension problem until after I developed vitamin d toxicity, before lockdown, I used to cycle around town, almost 10 kms a day and on weekends even 40-50 kms, I do yoga daily. My query is, I would like to come out of vitamin d toxicity, it depletes quite quickly in me, maybe a month or two, till then want to avoid taking highly addictive hypertension and anti anxiety meds. What treatment should I go through? Also don't want to take any immune-suppressants. Also, what should I take for havoc vitamin d toxicity could be causing to my bones? Thank you so much.
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Several medicines are available in homeopathy for depression and negative thoughts. But it is not possible to select any without thorough case taking. Because in homeopathy no patent medicine is available which will benefit every case. Every patient is unique and requires unique medicine. You can contact online for more details. Thanks.
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Good afternoon. I have gone through you writings. You should take medicines in consultation with your doctor. Gradually, low dose medicines you can take with the advice of doctor. As a psychologist I can suggest you some tips for your good health. You continue your exercises daily morning and evening. Eat healthy. Try to sleep in time. Engage into certain activities you like most. Share your feelings to your friends or parents. Do not worry. Continue your medicines with the advice of doctor you like. Concentrate on some activities you really enjoy. You can test your bp, pulse, other required tests with the prescription of doctor. You can consult me through video call.
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First and foremost you need to get the vitamin d toxicity treated from a a good md medicine physician doctor, before your other organs start getting affected. Secondly you have to understand that antihypertensives are not addictive. They are life saving drugs. At this point ,instead of fear of being addicted, you should be more concerned with getting your physiological and hemodynamic parameters to normal. That includes your bp. Thirdly whenever you are given any medications in emergency department it’s to get your symptoms under control. Not taking the medication is not gonna help improve your condition. My advice to you is get the vit d toxicity treatment by medicine department. Once you are cleared from there, then please consult a psychiatrist for your gad and other symptoms.
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Hi Thanks for seeking help here. After carefully listening to your history n evaluating the issue we suggests that for your problem we should need proper evaluation of your symptoms and carefully exclude or rile out other possibilities and adverse effects we should look for..For that once you should need proper psychiatry consultation and counselling.. Feel free to consult with me here in lybrate for further clarification and doubts if any with nominal fees. Happy to help you. Wish you good health. Get well soon. Regards
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