For the past year or so, I've been feeling really bad, and it was getting worse, and worse as the year went on. It finally started getting so bad, that I made an appointment to see the nurse practitioner at my doctor's office last week.

The NP got called away on an emergency, so I ended up seeing a doctor there that I'd never met before. Most of the weird issues that I've been having can be considered non-specific. So, that doctor sort of treated me as if she had to blow me off and not really do any thing. She suggested adding a couple of vitamin supplements. I take b12, so she said I could take more of that, and she also said I could take vitamin D3.

She came pretty close to a diagnosis, probably without meaning to.

I hurt my left knee this week, so I had to go back to the doctor's office, and got to see that nurse practitioner yesterday. I told her that I felt like the doctor had blown me off on the whole "not feeling good" feeling I'd had for the past year. Literally, I've been complaining about this for the better part of a year.

So, after she did an exam on me, and checked my knee, and ordered PT for it. She decided to draw some blood. They took 3 vials of blood, and tested just about everything in there. (that'll be expensive). They did a CBC, hematocrit, checked my b12, and thyroid, and a few other things.

Got a call this morning from her office. The nurse told me what my blood test results were. Everything was fine, EXCEPT for my vitamin D level. It was pretty low.

It was -14!!!! (yes, that's a NEGATIVE!)

I looked at the symptoms for vitamin D deficiency. I pretty much have all of them, but by themselves, they're all non-specific. No wonder every time I said something to a doctor, I got the eye roll from them, and placated to be sent on my way. When you look at all those non-specific symptoms, it just sounds like I'm whining about things that aren't really there.

It took a nurse practitioner to figure it out. (nurses are awesome, I say that because I come from a family of nurses. My dad, my dad's little brother. My dad's brother's widow is a nurse practitioner. I've got cousins that are nurses). The doctors just roll their eyes, the nurse practitioners actually get things done.

I now have a Rx for 8 weeks of vitamin D. I don't know what unit of measurement it's called, but it's 50K of whatever the dosage is. I have to take that once a week for 8 weeks. Then after that, I have another Rx for a lower dose of vitamin D.

I have no idea how long it takes to build up the vitD, and if I'll feel better, or have any of the weird MSish symptoms that have been getting worse lately start to get better.

Just kind of feel better now that I know there was an actual reason for why I feel so bad, and someone is doing something about it for me.

wonder how long it takes to rebuild my vitamin D levels.