Sublingual Vitamin D

I use the tiny 2000 unit gel pills. In the winter my D level was 18. From the paper I read, which said for every unit of D you are low you need 100 units of D, that means I need 4000 units a day. I take 2k in the morning, another in the afternoon if I haven't been working out in the sun. It helped some with the fibro pain right away.

I got my husband to take one pill a day and it cleared up the brown spots on his legs, which were very old marks from bumps and bruises.

Libby, I take 2000 IU gelcaps like Alcie and if they're the same ones then, no, they're not sublingual, you have to swallow them. Maybe you should ask your doctor or pharmacist where you can get sublingual Vitamin D.

You can probably snip open the tiny capsules, but they're REALLY small. They come in tablets too, probably can be crushed, but not sublingual. It's an oil, so probably doesn't get through mucous membranes in mouth anyway. I have a hard time swallowing pills, but the gel capsules are easy because they're small and slippery.

I would guess that just about anyone should be taking 2,000 units vitamin D unless they don't wear sunscreen or clothes and are outside a good bit of the day. The toxic level is 10,000 units daily, so 2,000 isn't that much. You used to see only 400 unit pills, but now the 2000s are everywhere and the same price.