I also took for a long time 50,000 icu but have not for about a month and just took another one tonight. I have not checked my vit. D levels for about a year.

My Vit D level was tested two months ago. I knew it was going to come back low, it seems by what I have read every MS patient has low vit d levels. So when the doc called saying my level was 22 and ideal is 80-100 I was not shocked, even though she was.

I work at a tanning salon and am VERY heat sensitive, so I do not tan.

But my manager read some stuff on vit D, MS, and tanning beds and did some calculations...

It says that in one week you should expose yourself to 14000 units of Vit D. She calculated 3 ten minute tans would get me where I need to be weekly, but it gets too hot. I have found 5 minutes is okay (the bed shuts off right when it starts getting warm), so I am going to try 5 minutes 6 days a week and see how that helps. She said what she read and researched is that out of the MS patients they tested doing this, 41% of them had fewer relapses because of the raise in their vit d. When she told me that, I hopped in the level 2 bed for five minutes (that was yesterday) and I kid you not I felt good when my tan was over so I am thinking there is a direct connection here, especially if the tested MS patients had a proven reduction in relapses.

I still haven't got on the Vit D supplements. That needs to be done immediately. Mayb that's why I get out of a flare and am back in another one within 3-4 weeks