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Posted 11/18/2015 9:09 PM (GMT 0)
Yesterday I had blood work done before my third remicade infusion.

Today I got a call from my pharmacy that a prescription was ready. I was assuming it was my azathioprine. Instead it was Vitamin D. I didn't know you needed a prescription for it and my doctor had never mentioned anything about it. But, I'm assuming my blood work came back and my levels were low so he just called it in today. Never heard anything from my doctors office about my blood work yet, usually I thought it took a few days.

How does this help with UC? I've seen it in other peoples signatures, anything I should know about it? I assume I got a prescription because it offers more than OTC pills?
Posted 11/18/2015 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
I was prescribed to take a 2000IU tablet a day
Posted 11/18/2015 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
I'm going to get checked on Friday. I'm Indian origin born in UK so it will probably be low. I know it massively helps IBD.
Posted 11/18/2015 10:16 PM (GMT 0)
I take 4,000 IU daily but have never needed a script for it. I just take OTC.
Posted 11/18/2015 10:29 PM (GMT 0)
High doses Yiu get a script for.
Often it's 50k iu once a week but with different cases it varies.

Wondering why doc prescribed and didn't say anything ask for directions of how and when he wants you to take it
Posted 11/19/2015 12:32 AM (GMT 0)
Vit D helps with UC and your levels are probably low if your doctor wants to prescribe it to you. I will assume that yours is like most prescriptions: 50,000 IU of vitamin D2 taken once a week. Some people believe that vitamin D3 that is easily bought OTC is better because it is the natural form of D.

Consult with your doctor of course but taking daily 7,000 IU of D3, or 10 capsules of 5,000 IU taken over the course of the week without a prescription, is about the same as taking 50,000 of prescription D2 once a week. Maybe it would be easier on your stomach to spread it out over a few days. And it should be much cheaper.
Posted 11/19/2015 12:58 AM (GMT 0)
It's D3, 2000IU

Bottle says take one daily

that only gives me 14,000IU a week. Seems kind of low from what others have mentioned. I've always thought my doc gives me low amounts of everything. ex. he only put me on 3.2g of Asacol daily, started at 25mg of azathioprine, then upped to 50mg then upped to 75mg which I still think might not be enough. I weigh around 145lbs or 65kg fwiw.

I guess I'll call the doctors office tomorrow.
Posted 11/19/2015 1:40 AM (GMT 0)
Those dosages seem really low to me. I weigh 130 lbs and take 100 mg of Imuran and my doctor basically said that was as low as we could go and still achieve a therapeutic effect.
Posted 11/19/2015 1:40 PM (GMT 0)
No typically doctors advise 1-2000 iu daily. But because it as prescription I assumed it would b higher than 2000iu and I actually misread it and thought you wrote 20000 iu.
H may have done it prescription to have it covered by insurance.

My doc had me take 2000 iu daily also.
But I am not so deficient anymore.
Posted 11/19/2015 6:27 PM (GMT 0)
Lately my insurance has covered all of my other meds completely, I think because I reached my deductible months ago. But for some reason I got charged for Vitamin D. I guess maybe because it isn't a real medication. It was like $5 for 30 pills, I'm sure I could have got OTC ones for cheaper, oh well.

I talked to the doc office today and they said my levels were just a little low.
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