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WeirdAl
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Just an FYI for those of you taking large amounts of vitamin c like I have been doing - I just got back from the nephrologist (kidney doc), and it looks like I'm in mild kidney failure from the vitamin c I'm taking. According to the doc, it's rare, but high doses of vitamin c (I have been taking around 5000mg per day) can crystilize and clog up your kidneys (since vitamin c is water soluble, any extra that your body can't process gets excreted in your urine), causing kidney failure. Anyway, I'm supposed to stop taking vitamin c and get some blood work done in about a month. Hopefully everything will be fine then. I didn't really have any symptoms, just some high B.U.N and creatinine levels, and when he looked at my urine under a microscope, while my urine was almost water (from all the water I drink), it was full of vitamin c crystals (he said an incredibly impressive amount).
Anyway, like I said, hopefully I'll be back to normal soon. The good news is that it should be safe for me to resume hormone replacement therapy (test cyp injections).
Anyway, like I said, hopefully I'll be back to normal soon. The good news is that it should be safe for me to resume hormone replacement therapy (test cyp injections).