Pain,Vitamin D & Northern states

Andrea thanks for posting this. Yes, Vit D is a very good one for sure. People that do not get in the sun much really need it. I read an article recently 30 min in the sun per day is needed. My best friend had a Dexa for osteoporosis, came back postive. Her dr put her on 3000mg of Vit D per day for one year. After a year she was dropped down to 1000 mg per day. The vitamin D reversed the osteoporosis. Her dr says the medication for it causes more harm than most people know due to the medication staying in our systems for so long. My own PCP has me on Vit D and checked my level recently on some blood work. I have already lost 2 inches in height because of the osteop. and I have started the 3000 mg of Vit D per day too. I spoke with my PCP about this instead of taking the script for the nose spray she had written a script for. Mine is too far gone to reverse, we are trying to slow the progression of the disease. We will check me in 6 months to see if I have made any progress. If not then I will do the nose spray. Susie

My vit D was sitting on the porch (from yesterday) so I just took my first. Lets touch base in one month and see if we feel any improvement.....

2 inches loss is a lot Susie! How long since you started your Vit D?

I am a dummy when it comes to pills.....my nursing was mostly in critical units and used IV meds.

Andrea

Oh, I am a huge believer in Vitamin D, and so is my pain management specialist, and my hormone doctor. I take 5000 IU's daily, and it really does help. Besides that ------ you will tan beautifully in the summer (my doctor doesn't get all hyper about a little sunning, good thing since I live in NC and the sun shines here a lot more than it did in NY!) Best wishes to all (oh, and if you are wondering why my screen name is holyhormones------I take bioidentical progesterone and testosterone-----it saved my life-----off six medications, have more energy now than I did when I was 30---and I am a happy 50 year old!)

Indersonu, no she was not on any of the scripts for osteoporosis. Her dr is not much on on the medications for osteoporosis, his thinking is the long term use and problems later on down the road. He has the same attitude on HRT, none of his patients are ever rx'd meds for it, he has them use natural therapies for that. We are in Tx and I do not know where you are located. She told me the number on the scale that is used to rate the osteoporosis and hers was considered mild. I still take Vitamin D and will continue to do so. If you will do a google search on it you will be amazed at what you elarn.

It has been reported that those with chronic pain have low vit. D levels.

Mine was low and i am on 5000 IU.

Retired mom, don't be so worried, I take 50,000 iuds of vit D twice a month..so the doctor should know what he's doing and
if you have questions bring it up to your doctor...I don't think a pharmacy would give it to you if it was toxic, I'd like to think thye'd
question it and tell you if it was, maybe ask your phamacist...
I do think vit D helps along with lovaza (omega-3)...Lovaza is screened for pcb's...
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Sorry gonna add in my 2cents before I no longer have computer access.

Alcie you said ~~>"10000 units a day for extended time is toxic according to recent medscape report.

The formula for raising D, from the report, is: for every 1ng low take 100 uniys of D. For my level of 18, that means 4000units to get to 58 - low end of 50 - 90.

I take 2000 units AM, another if I don't work outside."


....perhaps "toxic" (IE the body will dump excess via urine or diarreah) for a "normal person." And the "forumla" is for normal consumption for the average person....But it also includes ALL sources of D including food, sunshine, etc. Not just amount via suppliment. It is an "overall" formula.

It just doesnt work for people who need more vitamin D or D2 added for medical reasons. Not for me at any rate. There are other people like me. I have an absorption rate of 0.0026 (0.0025) (which happened to caused osteoperosis and other areas to "crumble" like chalk. But NOT to be confused with malabsorption.) and hypoparathyroidism. I HAVE to consume 50,000 UI Drisdol per week. There are times when I must consume more depending on lab reports, but NEVER any less. The consequences are... life threatening. It will be this way for the rest of my life. Also, I cannot consume caffiene. Cannot consume seperate calcuim suppliments or calcium containing "medicine" (Tums).

Just wanted you to know that there are reasons why some people must take large amounts daily for their entire lives. I am one of those people.

Sometimes when you read reports or on the internet, it seems so cut and dry. Must remember that it is usually compared to "normal" or other wise "healthy" people. Also, when speaking in terms of #of cases....it is compiled of all "reports" from the united states for the target year. There are billions of people in the US.

Here is the report in question~~~> http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/819426-overview
~~>"
The 2007 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System document the total number of exposures for each class of vitamins, the number of patients with major adverse outcomes, and the number of fatalities from that ingestion,3 as follows:

.....Vitamin D - 596 total exposures, 1 major outcome, and 0 deaths."


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dani