At a very upscale restaurant, all of the sudden, for no descernable reason my nose started to bleed, high up and it couldn’t be stopped until I packed the nostril with Kleenex and pressed hard against the side of my nose for several minutes in the bathroom. My fancy white napkin suffered the worst of it, because it was a substantial bleed. I have been bruising a lot recently, so I suspected something with vitamin K was involved. I’ve had more minor nose bleeds that I attributed to constant air conditioning during the summer.
My K levels have always been good, and I lowered the K1 dose when I started taking vitamin K2 (MK-4) in rather high doses recently for its potential effects on osteoporosis. But, there hasn’t been a change in my vitamin E dose for years, and again, it’s been in normal limits. So, now I read for the first time than Vitamin E competes with vitamin K for absorption. But it’s nit my E that is showing symptoms. http://69.164.208.4/files/Vitamin E and K interactions – a 50-year-old problem.pdf
I feel like I am robbing Peter to pay Paul with all of these interactions. It’s not just K1 but also K2, that interacts with E. After the nose bleeding and bruising, I upped my dose of vitamin K1, and continued high dose K2, but now I’m thinking of lowering my dose of vitamin E.
Has anyone been told of this interaction by your nutritionist? Did they offer any suggestion? Do you alternate E and K in your dosing regimen? I am not sure taking them at different times of day is enough, since they compete for the same metabolic pathway and I don’t think that’s over in a few hours. Since I am having symptoms of deficiency, do you think I should start the every other day regimen. Or every other week? Or up the K and reduce the E in half until the bruising is better?
My K levels have always been good, and I lowered the K1 dose when I started taking vitamin K2 (MK-4) in rather high doses recently for its potential effects on osteoporosis. But, there hasn’t been a change in my vitamin E dose for years, and again, it’s been in normal limits. So, now I read for the first time than Vitamin E competes with vitamin K for absorption. But it’s nit my E that is showing symptoms. http://69.164.208.4/files/Vitamin E and K interactions – a 50-year-old problem.pdf
I feel like I am robbing Peter to pay Paul with all of these interactions. It’s not just K1 but also K2, that interacts with E. After the nose bleeding and bruising, I upped my dose of vitamin K1, and continued high dose K2, but now I’m thinking of lowering my dose of vitamin E.
Has anyone been told of this interaction by your nutritionist? Did they offer any suggestion? Do you alternate E and K in your dosing regimen? I am not sure taking them at different times of day is enough, since they compete for the same metabolic pathway and I don’t think that’s over in a few hours. Since I am having symptoms of deficiency, do you think I should start the every other day regimen. Or every other week? Or up the K and reduce the E in half until the bruising is better?
