Vitamin D3 levels
 

Remember when I broke my collar bone last year and had my vitamin d level checked and it was low 30 something she wanted it at 50. So I have been taking 5,000 units ever since. I had it rechecked yesterday and my levels were perfect at 58. So I am to continue taking 5,000 units a day.
What are your levels?
bizi

Mine was 42 after a year at 5,000 a day. I now take 10,000 daily in the winter only, since I am outside alot in summer.

My doctor wanted me at 70. I don't know if I will ever get there tho, because I sort of rotate my D , 5,000 one day, 10,000 the next.
Seems like a lot for me. But it does keep the colds and flu at bay for me. That is a nice effect. I think 50 is a good level for most of us.

I didn't know that it warded off colds...that is interesting. Sometimes I get sinus infections but rarely so am thankful about that.
bizi
I take 2 tiny little gel caps (I don't like the tablets hard to swallow) and get 1000units from my calcium for a total of 5,000 units.

i am nowhere near that. but i've described my issues before with this state medical system and unavailability OTC. doctor won't test more than 1ce or 2ce a year and prescribes tiny amounts. when i started taking it, at my own request, i was at 6 or 7. :eek: and he prescribed 750iu a day, taken in a single cumulative dose, 1ce a week. i don't recall if the next test was in the teens or the twenties - i think in the teens.

he did not indicate to take more, but having tested a couple times i feel very safe taking 1,500iu/day now, grouped in 2 biweekly dosings. (i wouldn't exceed 10,000iu on a single day even if i don't take a dose every day at the moment.)

i hope to be over 30 the next test. if not, i'll go up again. i figure i may need about 5000iu a day... i want to get to a level of about 50.

i don't get sun during summer or winter so i don't have to worry about that. some supplements i take occasionally contain vit D, but in such small quantities as to be negligible against 5000iu/daily.

~ waves ~

About two years ago when I was seeing my doctor for depression/anxiety/headaches he wanted to check my vitamin D level, and to our surprise it was at 13! :O He started me out on 2,000 UI a day. Later on I was hospitalized and I explained to the new doctor my vitamin D condition, and he said 2,000 was way too low. Now I am taking 50,000 UI weekly. I had it checked a little over half a year ago and it was at 28.

My doctor at least wants me above 30. I am still taking the 50,000 UI. Slowly but surely I'm getting up there, and my depression hasn't been as bad :) (I'm fifteen - by the way)

Is it D3? my sister was taking the prescription D2 but it is not as easily absorbed as the over the counter D3. So try that instead if you are taking the prescription dose. my doctor wanted me to be between 50-70.
glad that you are feeling better!
bizi

Hi,
I last got my levels tested in June or so but I have not been back to the mdoc for the results.
I had not been keeping track of how much I was taking so I don't know what to adjust if necessary.

M

RX D is D2. There are new studies to show this does not work well in humans, and D3 is preferable:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237943.php

Vitamin D3 - low for me
 

As researchers are realizing that cholesterol metabolism, the lipids and fat soluable vitamins in our body appear to be major culprits in all of our illnesses the hype on Vitamin D is high. I think there is a lot more to the Rickets in England than they knew - totally blaming it on dark skys and people never seeing the sun by working inside the industries 12 hours each day.

There were a number of cave dwellers even in Afraica that went to Ireland and if use to living in caves, hiding from the dreaded insects that gave them African Sleeping Sickness they did not get any sun either! Our ancestry tells a lot! Now with the findings of Epigenetics, who knows what our genes are turning on and off that we need in our bodies.

I learned about a study done to prevent breast cancer and colon cancer and the dosage was 5,000 D3. My doctor had me on 4,000 because my levels were very low but after reading that article, I raised it to 5,000. Not long after, the radiologist called me and said are you taking D3. I said yes, 5,000. She agreed with me and said after studying the mammogram, she wanted to be sure I was taking at least 4,000; 5 was fine.

I am reading some researchers believe even up to 10,000 is safe and needed. Its fat soluable and if we are not processing it correctly in our livers or in the kidneys like MS folks, then its kinda scary to play with the numbers.

They key, I am sure is to keep it monitored and be sure the levels stay with the proper range they now have created. It can cause damage but so far I have not run across anyone that had excess after taking the supplements.

I believe we are going to learn a lot more about A, D, E and K that is going to put our body back to a more normal state.

I study research, its scary just listenig to others and even some docs that treat things so differently. I think education is the name of the game. The more we know, the more we can adjust and maybe even fix.

hopabout