Vitamin d and Lyme Disease. What is the TRUTH about this??

I've been taking 3000-4000 iu D3 for the past three years, wondering now if it's done any good..

Mine was checked and I was down in the danger zone! I had to take 10,000 mgs a day for a while, then 5,000 mgs a day, then my doc had me quit a few months ago. We did the blood test, and guess what? I had to go back on the Vitamin D because my body doesn't seem to want to make enough any more!!! Waaaaaa!!! I had to get the "Carlson super drops" this time too.

Are you low in Vitamin D? If you are, then supplementation is a good idea. You should get it tested.
Many of us with lyme are low.

You don't want a severe herx....that is inflammation which is not good for healing.

So, that is why we urge people to start low and raise slowly - one at a time.

DS takes some vit D per his LLNP's instructions - I think around 2000 daily. He is outside much of the summer in the direct sun and has zero Lyme fatigue. Anecdotally I'm a huge believer in the vit D effect directly from sunlight - for him at least.

And yes, as long as your Vitamin D isn't too high, you want to supplement with it.

I'm not taking the K with it...but I do take the sublingual D.

My D went into range when I upped my dose.

I was 'insufficient' when I first tested (after several months of lyme symptoms) - and that was on 2000 - 4000 daily....I upped it to 5,000 daily for several weeks, retested...and am good now.

I retested a couple months later...and still good.

I'm also fair, blue-eyes, freckles. And when I tested, we had just had a very sunny summer...and I was out in the sun...

Yes, Georgia Hunter is very knowledgeable.

Simon Templar said...
You're not only beautiful, you're wise, too.

Simon, who were you referring to?

Simon Templar said...
Related to my remarks four comments above:

/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-rise-and-inevitable-fall-of-vitamin-d

I definitely don't agree with everything on this website, but I certainly give them more credence than Dr. Mercola or Josh Axe.

OMG, www.sciencebasedmedicine.org!!!???? Those guys are CDC, insurance companies and big Pharma in one.

Thi is LYME to them https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/science-based-politics/

"Lyme

It is the people who care who cause change. Those involved in the pseudo-scientific industrial complex, either as consumers or producers, care. And they advocate for their pseudo-science. Those involved in reality-based medicine are by and large too busy too care and for them the name shruggie was devised. We see this in the growth of Integrative Medicine Departments across the US that would have sent Flexner spinning in his grave. That’s not post fracking tremors, that’s Flexner.

We also see it in state legislatures, where attempts at the medical equivalent of defining pi as 3.2 continue apace. Jann Bellamy has a weekly update of this depressing and difficult situation over at SfSBM.

I (and others) have written about Lyme (and it’s fictional counterpart, chronic “Lyme” disease). There is no post-antibiotic Lyme disease amenable to antibiotic (or other) therapies. Chronic Lyme is often a bogus diagnosis treated with equally bogus therapies.

In the heartland of Lyme the Massachusetts legislature overrode the governor’s veto to mandate that health care insurers have to pay for long term antibiotics to treat Lyme. This despite all the clinical trials that have shown antibiotics are not effective, and despite opposition from reality-based practitioners like the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Why?

It’s not the role of the Legislature or the governor to determine what the appropriate course of treatment is for Lyme disease.

Yes, but research has determined that long term antibiotics do not work for Lyme, so why mandate payment?

I suppose that Representative David P. Linsky, proponent of the bill, will next vote for the building of a wall to keep the Lyme out of the state and make the Borellia pay for it. It makes as much sense.

Add Massachusetts to the growing list of states that legitimize nonsense that we have to pay for."

They are disgusting.

I have to agree with Not-There-Yet. After looking over their articles, I wouldn't trust a word they say. They also want to make sure that vaccine exemptions are a thing of the past.

Simon,

Hi. This is my view on 'the not questioning' - it falls under the politics/religion umbrella. Best not to discuss in certain circles, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I have an older brother who abuses alcohol (and God knows what else) takes an Rx for everything (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a myriad of other health issues - most of which can be eliminated with a better lifestyle) then he takes Ambien to sleep. My other brother is super healthy, gets his nutrients from food, etc... yet the prescription brother thinks the healthy brother (who I am most like) is crazy. I love them both equally. We agree to disagree. The other thing with illness is it can change your mind. I don't take antibiotics yet when facing what could happen with Lyme, I took them. I also find myself not really buying that my own body does not have the innate wisdom to heal on its own with nutrition/exercise/sleep, but then again I am learning a lot about what lyme does. I would also probably but any herb/supplement if someone told me it cure their lyme. I'm guessing we all want the same destination of full body health but how we choose to journey there may vary. In the mean time, please keep us laughing! Oh and I hear you on the expensive tests. I said no to my LLMD. I don't really need another lyme test when I 100% have lyme.