All the terms and "AKA's" for all the forms of Vitamin D testing are a bit confusing to me and if you are savvy with them I'm requesting your help on just a very specific question: Does my naturopath need to still order the Calcitrol test????
To explain: I recently learned from a fellow Peater that this low result of my Vitamin D from labcorp Nov. 2020 is my inactive form..
"Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy
17.5 - Low (range 30 - 100)"
He suggested testing my active form my reveal a higher amount so I asked my Naturopath if she would order my active form but she was not familiar with active form of Vit d and told me to look up the labcorp test for it and email it to her and she would order it. I found calcitrol looks like it is the active form and emailed her this link below (please see link).
https://www.labcorp.com/.../calcitriol-1-25-di-oh-vitamin-d.
However, when i went to lab yesterday, they made this printout for me showing me what she ordered and I think all she did was do the same test I had done October 2020 (is this right?)....
They said it was a whole panel and so i had my blood drawn. Looking more closely at it, it looks like it does not contain the calcitrol, right? I emailed her and she emailed back saying it was the right test. Help please? So I still need to have her order the calcitrol right? Nevermind all my scribbled notes on right side of photo. Thank so much!
To explain: I recently learned from a fellow Peater that this low result of my Vitamin D from labcorp Nov. 2020 is my inactive form..
"Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy
17.5 - Low (range 30 - 100)"
He suggested testing my active form my reveal a higher amount so I asked my Naturopath if she would order my active form but she was not familiar with active form of Vit d and told me to look up the labcorp test for it and email it to her and she would order it. I found calcitrol looks like it is the active form and emailed her this link below (please see link).
https://www.labcorp.com/.../calcitriol-1-25-di-oh-vitamin-d.
However, when i went to lab yesterday, they made this printout for me showing me what she ordered and I think all she did was do the same test I had done October 2020 (is this right?)....
They said it was a whole panel and so i had my blood drawn. Looking more closely at it, it looks like it does not contain the calcitrol, right? I emailed her and she emailed back saying it was the right test. Help please? So I still need to have her order the calcitrol right? Nevermind all my scribbled notes on right side of photo. Thank so much!