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According to this, 4000IU/daily isn't considered excessive. My doctor did say that the 5000/IU I've been taking isn't excessive either but I'm going to mention this article to her. I have a feeling it isn't excessive enough to matter.
Taking too much vitamin D can cloud its benefits and create health risks - Harvard Health The mice in the study discussed in the Brain article were being given 75,000IU though I'm not sure if that was daily or weekly or what. If it was daily, that seems like a very jumbo-sized dose of vitamin D for a little mouse.... ![]() I don't think they know so very much about the connection between vitamin D and MS. They think that because many people with MS have low vitamin D levels, supplementing their vitamin D just might help, and there seem to have been some benefits for some people when they've been given additional vitamin D. But they're not sure. I like to think that the added vitamin D has been helping.
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Repeal the law of gravity! MS diagnosed 1980. Type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteopenia. Avonex 2002-2005. Copaxone 6/4/07-5/15/10. Currently: Glatopa (generic Copaxone), 40mg 3 times/week, 12/16/20 - 3/16/24 |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | ewizabeth (03-05-2020) |
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P.S. If you happen to get the NARCOMS newsletter called NARCOMS Now, I just received an issue of it (volume 8, #4, 2019), and there is a short article on pages 12-13, "Should People with MS Take Vitamin D? How Much and How Often?" Its information is from a paper presented at the ECTRIMS conference in September 2019, and it pretty much answers one of my questions about vitamin D--how much of it is too much?
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I take this to mean that 5,000IU/day is regarded as the maximum dose.
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Repeal the law of gravity! MS diagnosed 1980. Type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteopenia. Avonex 2002-2005. Copaxone 6/4/07-5/15/10. Currently: Glatopa (generic Copaxone), 40mg 3 times/week, 12/16/20 - 3/16/24 |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | ewizabeth (03-07-2020) |
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I read that issue but I probably didn't pay much attention to that article at the time. I'm going to go back to taking just 2,000 IU. I know of folks taking 10,000 daily or even 25,000 once a week.
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Wiz Turn Left at the next election. . RRMS DX 01/28/03 Started Copaxone again on 12/09/09 |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | agate (03-07-2020) |
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That's what my doctor said too--that there are people taking far bigger doses of vitamin D than I've been taking. At least it's not expensive.
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Repeal the law of gravity! MS diagnosed 1980. Type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteopenia. Avonex 2002-2005. Copaxone 6/4/07-5/15/10. Currently: Glatopa (generic Copaxone), 40mg 3 times/week, 12/16/20 - 3/16/24 |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | ewizabeth (03-08-2020) |
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