Next time I go in I will get tested. This year I bought some sun block clothing....SPF50, because I am out so much. I live near an outlet mall and got some of it on sale. If one is not picky about style and color, one can get it pretty cheap.

Last year, I got a few mild burns, inadvertently. Last year I did not have the SPF clothes...I am kind of caught in that skin cancer is such an issue, being very fair. I do burn rapidly. I had a thick denim shirt I wore. Usually I just wore capri pants...you know from being a gardener, shorts don't do too well in a garden. I have huge garden spiders and many bees too (both beneficial)...so, it is better to stay covered.

Rheumie says be careful of sun....eh, I dunno, ancient people were in the sun all the time. LOL, of course, maybe they didn't have autoimmune disease....they likely got their poison from bad eating choices...and death came quick! I am more inclined to protect my head, neck and arms, cuz sundamage looks bad. Oh vanity....

I eat a lot of dairy, now I wonder if that is the wrong Vit. D, in there. It probably is not D3.

Also, I can't swallow pills easily anymore, and have been grinding my multivit....eating in applesauce....ugh. I have to quaff down that huge fish oil capsule and almost choke on it...I always do it when hubby is home, in case I need a heimlich! If it weren't for the mercury, I would eat a can of tuna every day instead.

What about using the real oil instead of the pills for your omega? You crushing your pills reminds me of when I was a kid my mom would put my med crushed in icecream. I don't know much about the d. I had mine tested and it was good but I have osteoporosis so I take calcium with d 2 times daily.

I remember when I was a kid, cod liver oil was the thing!

well we ae getting hammered this time. 6 inches on the ground and another 20 possibly on the way. Spring is going to feel very good this year.

Dairy is not a good source of D....

100 IU of D2 in 8oz of milk.

One cannot get enough D to get to minimum of 40ng/ml by diet.
If you do not get sun, you need a supplement.

The D3 I take is about 1/2 the size of my pinky finger nail bed.
It is very small... hard to even hold!

Thanks, I will get my D level checked when I go in next...which I suppose should be soon.

Lots of foods are fortified with Vitamin D. You don't only get it from milk. Interesting article.

http://dietary-supplements.info.nih....s/vitamind.asp

Some of that article is outdated. Some is still good.

The information on Vit D is changing so rapidly... this is really a novel situation.

It can be hard for most people to know who to believe these days. Even doctors are clueless on the treatment protocol. They will test, but still give that poor D2 RX ...because D3 is OTC and not RX.

When the CME catches up in a year or two, hopefully this will be less confusing.

This is one link that is keeping up on the fast moving data coming in:

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

There is not enough D in foods, unless you eat fish endlessly, to get it. Sun exposure has been recommended against for so long people use screening or clothing blocks.

People with autoimmune disease will not go into the sun unprotected. So learning about the supplement alternatives is critical for them.

No sun but for two days and then whump! More snow?
To break a 110 year old record is nothing to sneeze at? Or maybe you mite sneeze after digging out? IF you CAN dig out?
BobB - please take your time digging this time, it's nasty and you got more than we did? It's too much to do all at once!
Do what you can and leave the rest to the weather gods? They mite smile on us?
IF I thot I could truly get extra D by going to a tanning salon? I would now...IN A FLASH! I suppose it'd be like trying to get a 'moon' tan, tan by the moonlight-that is, nothing else implied here .
At least I'm counting blessings? Plumbing works, power works and heat works! Many others aren't so lucky, losing one or all of the above.
To all of you north of Dee Cee? MY wishes for warmth and comfort for the duration! 's to one and all!
Umm? Are we having FUN now? - j

--and it was that heavy, wet, slushy snow, likely because the temperature was right around 32 degrees Farenheit all through the storm (few more degrees most of this would've been rain).

Fortunately, the fact that the snow is not freezing to the slighly warmer road material underneath makes it easy to move, if one does it a bit at a time. Already dug out my car twice--when you street park, as I have to. the plows come by and throw more snow on your car on a regular basis.