So I've been on a bit of a roller coaster ride with D3. It's been a month or so on this trip, since I needed to leave time to get back to baseline before trying something new.

Initially I took a 1000 IU D3/K2 (MK7, so from natto) mix with an additional 1000 IU of D3 and I had some bad reactions, severe diarrhea in fact, as I believe I reported on this thread. There was also indigestion and nausea. I then waited to received the Pure Encapsulations Calcium K/D and tried that. I only had one capsule, so 500 IU and it upset my stomach, though very mildly. Although it was too soon to tell, I decided to cut that out, realizing that I needed to first try it pure, as we know we should do, so as to isolate the problem. So I took the D3 that I have made with organic coconut oil, glycerin from palm, and bovine gelatin. So far I've taken it for 3 days, today being the 4th, and it has progressively or increasingly upset my stomach, but not very much. Last night was the worst as I felt somewhat nauseous, though in the morning I also had mild diarrhea. Today there was no diarrhea.

But I wanted to report something more interesting and problematic. It has been great taking the D3 in one sense: I have an amazing amount of energy and drive the likes of which I've not seen in some time. My mood is amazing, my energy through the roof, I awake in the morning and I feel completely fresh, and so on and so forth. But that's the problem: for example, last night I couldn't get to bed/didn't want to until 2:30/3 am, and then I didn't feel like sleeping. I then woke up a few hours later. I did force myself on all three mornings to sleep in longer but I don't want to be waking up in the middle of the day, given work and everything else. But my symptoms will be quite intense without lots of sleep. This is all vivid, because before the D3 I was sleeping quite well: about 8-10 hours a night, something I can't recall doing since my early teens, before my life long battle with insomnia.

I plan to keep taking the D3, but rather than at night with dinner, in the morning with breakfast. I'll keep taking the same one for now. But if the digestive and other problems continue, I plan to try one more lanolin based D3, the purest one I can find with no glycerin or oils or gelatin, the Pure Encapsulations D3 1000 IU. If that fails, then I will try this, which is quite a bit more pricey, it seems, though perhaps not in the end: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=A910SOE1FKRQR. It is lichen based as it will be clear at that point that I'm allergic to lanolin.

I had suspected the K2 source, natto, but perhaps it is the lanolin, since on some level I think I may have mild allergies to wool. I'm not too keen on lichen as a source, since some who have mold/bacteria/fungus issues have reported some serious allergic reactions, but it may be my only option short of high mercury and high vitamin A fish oils. I have heard though that people who get a crazy boost on the lanolin don't have such an extreme reaction on the lichen source, so that's good. I mean, I like the energy and productivity, but I also want to be able to unwind and get some sleep at night. Hopefully the change to taking it in the morning will help with that.

Thanks for listening and if you have any ideas, thoughts, suggestions and the like, let me know.

EDIT/ADDITION: I've considered of just carrying on with the lanolin based D3, if I only have mild allergic reactions, but then I worry that this is causing inflammation and that's never a good idea in my state.