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Originally Posted by tkrik
I know this has been discussed before but I can't find the thread(s). 
Anyhow, I went to the pharmacy today to pick up my regular prescription and they also had a new one for me. It was 50,000 IU's of vitamin D. This seems like an awful lot to me. I don't know what my blood levels were as I haven't heard from the doctor yet, but obviously it is low. Do any of you take this much? How much do you all take? |
That RX has a big number, but it is D2, and doesn't work.
You'd be better off with OTC D3. If you know your D testing result, you can figure your own doses. 1000IU D3 for every 10 pts you need to raise, taken once a day.
This is an explanation of why the D2 is now considered outdated.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...d-mistake.aspx
The D2 doctors continue to prescribe is over 40 yrs old, and back then they didn't know that our bodies cannot utilize D2 much at all.
It is a sad shame that the doctors don't keep up. Spending time and money to test people, and then undertreat them?
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/89/11/5387.long
There is only one D on RX. Ergocalciferol, 50,000IU. aka D2.
So in essence it won't harm you, but then again, it won't do much if anything at all to help you.
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