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Old 03-17-2014, 11:40 AM #21
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I'm glad that you found those things out Wiz.
For sure they can have an effect on fatigue levels, as well as a whole lot of other things. Hope that it all gets sorted out and that you feel better.

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Happy to report that my Vit D levels have climbed a bit. Months ago I got my first test- I was a 4. I take 5000IU of Vit D3 daily and my level is now at 12. Plan is to stay on current 5000IU daily dose since the goal is to get me into the upper end of the range.

If only my other pills were so cheap and easy...
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Jane,

My vitamin D level is 41 on a scale of 30-100 so I might start taking another gelcap daily until the sunny weather arrives.
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just caught my type-o and too late to edit-

I meant to type "...my vit D level is now 21"
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I recently had an annual visit with my Urologist, (new to me as my old one retired) and he mentioned that My taking a D3 supplement (2000 iu) was not doing a lot of good because the body has a hard time absorbing D3. He said the best source for D3 was the Sun but that would require us to run around naked 20 hours a day in the Sun. (you can, I'm not) So he put me on 25mg of D2 and said that the body can convert and easily absorb what it needs. I've never heard this before and i wonder if anyone else has. I thought that was a pretty high dose.
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I recently had an annual visit with my Urologist, (new to me as my old one retired) and he mentioned that My taking a D3 supplement (2000 iu) was not doing a lot of good because the body has a hard time absorbing D3. He said the best source for D3 was the Sun but that would require us to run around naked 20 hours a day in the Sun. (you can, I'm not) So he put me on 25mg of D2 and said that the body can convert and easily absorb what it needs. I've never heard this before and i wonder if anyone else has. I thought that was a pretty high dose.
Hi Warren,

I have taken prescription D2 50,000iu twice a week for over a year, it's the only way my D level will stay within the range my Neurologist wants. Before the prescription I was taking over-the-counter D3 5000iu once daily and even after a year my D level was deficient.

There is a wealth of information about Vitamin D on the Vitamin -nutrients-herbs and supplement forum: https://www.neurotalk.org/forum49/

One of the Threads from that forum:
New medical information on Vitamin D + videos:

Feel free to post your own question on that forum, if you so choose
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I had the blood tests run and it showed I was deficient. So the doctor put me on 5000iu, and immediately I showed symptoms of overdose. Severe headache, increased heart rate, vomitting, difficulty breathing, pain in the kidneys, severe joint pain (above and beyond what I normally experience), and a few seizures. All within three days of taking it. Another blood test revealed my numbers had shot through the roof even though they were considered quite low to begin with, just don't remember the exact numbers. A few months after I stopped taking it she ran another blood test just to make sure there wasn't some kind of mix up with the first test and my numbers were right back down again matching the first test...

She didn't put me back on the supplements though, only suggest I eat a bit more broccoli or add another glass of milk to my daily routine. Aside from water soluble vitamins it was strongly suggested I stay away from any supplements. Especially since I've had severe reactions to food fortified with iron from the hemochromatosis, but also severe reactions to taking vitamin C supplements. One dose from a halls vitamin C lozenge equals several cankersores in the mouth, tinny taste in the back of the throat, acid reflux, vomiting and confusion. And yet undoctored orange juice is fine. (And it's not just the halls, just that was the last one I tried, any vitamin C supplements had done that, I stay far away from them now).

But that's what a severe overdose can cause with vitamin D at any rate. Not something to mess with too much that's for sure, but then I'm sure for 99.9% of the population it will take sooo much more than 5000ui to cause such a severe reaction, my body's just messed up from the word go.
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