[caroline2]

My personal story on Depression. 10+ long years from 1991-2002

I came in from a long life of SUN bathing, beaches on East and West Coast where I now live. I was about 53 when I pretty much left my Sun Days.

In 1991 at age 53, I found myself struggling with "clinical" depression. I tried Prozac in 1991 and it did nothing, so a therapist told me to get off it. I did.

So thinking more about myself and what was going on, came to the realization it was most likely a sluggish thyroid. I worked with an MD for 10 yrs and he kept telling me "you are good, your numbers are good"....I was depressed. So he started with the scripts for anti depressants....10 yrs of a mix of various A/D's.....I'm still suffering with the dreaded depression.

Then in 2002, I was talking to my D.O. who worked on my back for years and he immediately called in for Armour thyroid and that 10 yrs of depression lifted in 4 days. Ok, I'm going along feeling much better and working to get to that right dose for me.

Enter late 2006, I was feeling a lowness, not great depression but a lowness. Not me. Talking to my sister who is challenged with MS and listening to her talking about Vit D and how important it was for everyone including her of course with MS. I believe at the time she was taking the 50K script from a doctor.

So with this info, I talked to an MD I was seeing and we decided to test my D and I was a LOW 16, he tested himself as he was no curious, he was a LOWER 13.

Now it all begins with the Vit D dosing and in 6 months I brought my level up to 34, I remember so much of these important times in my life and my health.

Going along and getting semi annual labs on D, I finally got to 80 and I was feeling Great. Still taking thyroid BUT getting Vit D into my body.

Then in 2010, I went for a hip replacement and had read/heard Vit D levels can drop with surgery and sure enough mine dropped 40 pts. So now I'm back down to 40or so. So now working to get back up there and then heard about the K2 research needed for Vit D activity/absorption.

At this time I take 5K D3 and K2 in the form of MK7 daily. Some days I take 10K D3. I hardly get any sun as my walking is so awful from a messed hip replacement in 2010. So I depend on D and K to keep from depression and do thyroid support.

So what I've come to, is Vit D is most likely the first line of attack on all this depression, I'm now thinking it should have been for me. I was never depressed when I spent all those years in the sun.

Thyroid too, but Vit D foremost. This is my thinking on what I've been through. And to think HOW MANY are existing with low Vit D and their doctors should be bringing up Vit D firstly.

This all came to me in the last couple days since the Vitamin D post on the Vit/Supp/Herb area.

Here is a good reading link on Vit D and Depression.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...and-depression

Keep working on healing all.

[RSD ME]

thanks for the link info and link caroline. i struggle trying to get my vit d level up to a normal range. was 9 last year then 19 then and is now a 27. my dr said it should be at 50 and has increased my vit d to 10,000 iu daily. thanks again for your helpful advice and i hope you are having a pain free as possible day today. take care.

[caroline2]

RSD, when I found how low I was I was taking 4K D3 daily and it took about 6 months to get up to 35 or so....then along the way the info came out that we need to add K2 for best absorption of the D3 which I added....but it took a while to get levels up. Once I got to 80 I was feeling so good, then hip replacement surgery knocked off 40 pts of D3....so I started to work my way up again. I don't know where I am now but I sure don't feel as good as I did at 80 but hip surgery really did a job on my body.