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Check this out from the Mayo Clinic Its the vitamin D me thinks!
http://www.mayoclinic.org/vitamin-d-toxicity/expert-answers/faq-20058108

Very interesting Umpa  This is good to know    

Jacki Please let us know how the test come out    Hope you are feeling yourself again soon!

So sorry it's taken so long to get back on here! My mil who is almost 94 and lives with us has dementia and has taken a turn and it's been horribly draining here...

Anyway - yes, the Vit D does seem to have been the culprit! I've been off it now for about 6 weeks and will retest soon but the urination is back to normal.

Thanks so much, everyone, fore your help and caring!

Did you check out the link Jacki?

Sure did - and it really does seem this is the problem for me! I was mainly just curious as to why the urination stopped when I added back carbs and starts back up again when I stop them! It seems the carb issue is overriding the fit D issue...?!

But in any event, I should know the test results soon and then I will know for sure! Meanwhile, I'm back to sticking with low-carb!

Trying to understand the "science" behind this...!  Doug - ??!!

For an update... Today I went back to have all my regular labs done for my endocrinologist whom I see next week. So hopefully something will help solve this mystery!

However…  I’ve been doing my own research, reading, etc., and I feel I may have figured things out.  First, my “carb experiment” over the weekend definitely slowed down the urination - I did take myself all the way out of ketosis and am assuming that my glycogen stores have filled back up which required the water from my system, right?  And now that today I’m back on the low carb by Wed it will probably start up again (the urination issue).

But what I’m wondering now is if this is because of Vitamin D toxicity…?? I’ve always been LOW in Vit. D but for a couple of years had been taking 20,000 - 30,000 IU daily because I’m so large and read that the larger you are the more you require.  My SEVERE tension headaches totally went away on this regimen, and my levels were always between 50-80.  Back in December I had tests run and it showed a level of 98!  Also showed a slightly elevated calcium level of 10.5. I only found out about these results a few weeks ago when I saw my Lyme doctor.  I’m thinking now that the low carb diet brought my Vit. D levels up naturally and I really didn’t need the supplementation any more - or not as much anyway. I stopped the Vit. D completely for a few days and my headaches came back so I started back up but only at the 20,000 level thinking that would be ok.  Well, now I think it was actually my pillow causing the return of the headaches, though I’m not positive.  Got a new support pillow and they’re better, so we’ll see…

But upon reading about all this, it seems that too much Vit. D can cause too much calcium which causes polyuria!  OR… in the past I had a temporary bout of hyperparathyroidism which caused too much calcium which at that time did NOT cause the polyuria, but I wasn’t doing low carb at that time either and my blood sugar was terribly out of control. So now my theory is that this excess Vit. D > excess calcium + the low carb diet is causing the major polyuria and that when I eat more carbs it slows it down because of the glycogen thing.  Would this make scientific sense?!  Anyway, in the meantime while I’m waiting on these lab results, I’m going to say off the Vit. D (and hope the headaches don’t come back) and maybe things will start leveling out for me soon.  I’m actually HOPING this is the problem so I won’t have to stop eating low carb!  And I hope we caught it before any permanent kidney damage was done - but I’m feeling we did since there was no protein in my urine or anything like that.

Thanks again for your help!

Oh, he also thought I might be in TOO deep a ketosis...?! Said I should try increasing carbs slightly and see what happens. Is this possible? To be getting too FEW carbs and for that to cause this diuresis effect? I HAD been eating around 11-14 per day the past two weeks just trying to get back on track...

I've been following the book's suggestions for 4 months now, have dropped 54 lbs and brought my A1C down from 9.8 to 6.4 (though I think it will be even less when I get tested next week). However, I've been having very frequent urination since eating this way (every 2 hrs at night and many times during the day - sometimes 7 times in 2 hours). I  wondered if eating this way could be causing kidney problems? I noticed when I had my mini binge two weeks ago, the urination slowed wayyyy down...

I'm just still really exhausted all the time from the lack of sleep - can't even rest during the day really... Any insight? Or anyone else have this problem?!

- Jacki

This sounds like a good option! I guess I'm actually wondering about a stroganoff recipe just with the beef and don't even worry about replacing the noodles. Would you just put the Alfredo sauce in the beef and that's it? Or does stroganoff usually have something else in there?! Or would using heavy cream be closer ...?

I love beef stroganoff and wondered if it would work to use the Bertolli Alfredo sauce with ground beef somehow? Any ideas? BTW I have cone to the conclusion I do NOT like pork rinds at all, so nothing using those please!

Thanks!

Thanks so much, Mark. I really appreciate the encouragement!