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I was recently diagnosed with Osteomalacia I have been suffering with several different issues over the past year and a half, I have had surgery on my femur for a fracture. My ankle is fractured and other foot has 3 broken bones.
This has been so painful, I'm on crutches and have been for over a year. Finally got into see an Endocrinologist, who finally diagnosed me.
I just want to know if anyone has suffered with this.
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jx41870 tina47117
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Tina, this is new to me, but I just searched on it. I see you've posted this in the nutrition group. Do you think it was related to insufficient vitamin D?
While you can try to get more vitamin D from food, from fortified foods, and from sunlight, just taking vitamin D supplements is a far faster and more convenient way, with the dosage much more easily measured and controlled.
ptolemy tina47117
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Osteomalacia virtually disappeared in UK at the end of the last century but seems to have come back again. Possibly because people spend so much more time indoors. They reckon 75% of the population suffer from low vit D and everyone is encouraged to take it during the winter. Has your doctor prescribed you a high vit D dose, have you had a vitamin D blood test?