Vitamin D deficiency

Hi there,

I hope you feel well very soon. 

First let me tell you that I feel you, I really do. I’ve been there, so hang in there, there’s light at the end of the dark tunnel. Your courage is an inspiration, and I assure you, it gets better. 

Correcting your vitamin d3 deficiency the right thing to do, since its symptoms are horrible if left untreated. You’re on the right track. However, the reason why you’ve been feeling worse on vitamin d is most likely because supplementing with vitamin d has depleted your stores of other co-factors (magnesium and vitamin k2) since these two are absolutely necessary for the metabolism of vitamin d. What you’re going through is most likely caused by an underlying deficiency of magnesium that was excerbeted by vitamin d3. 

Feel well soon.

MrLeaf

Hi

I can’t tell you if that’s your only problem but I can say that I had the exact same symptoms, diagnosed late Jan with vit d deficiency, and after high dose supplements am starting to feel much better.  

Hope that helps reassure you.

I have to say - 14.9% means nothing to me either! It should be given as a figure with units like ng/ml or nmol/l. 

Your symptoms are very non-specific so it is probably as well to give it a few weeks and see if you start to feel better with the supplement - it isn't a very high dose (more usual for severe deficiency would be 3 tablets a week for 8-10 weeks) but it is about the same as my husband was given for his extremely low vit D level and his level came up to acceptable in about 3 months. He'd never had any symptoms though so there was nothing to improve - although his blood pressure did go down and that can be raised in low vit D.

It's difficult to say - low vit D can be just low or it can be a symptom of something else as well. So  if the episodes don't improve - push your doctor a bit to look further. But usually people complain of muscle and joint aches, rather than waht you describe. 

And if you feel that ill again, wherever you are, call the emergency services. They will check several relevant things on the spot which will give a clue as to what it is. It might have been a virus - but it might not have been.

I am new here too, just been told about vit D deficiency, I was given a figure of 17, but not sure if that was a % or whatever. The GP said it needs to be at least 25, but reading around, it should be even higher than that.  I have been given Vit B 20,000ui one per day for 15 days, then to stay on a maintenance dose, and go back to the GP after a month to see how things are. 

I am trying to find out more about Vit K2 and magnesium that Mrleaf suggests, I am looking into what doses I should be aiming for to counteract the effects of the vit D supplements.

Its a week since your first post, how are things, do you feel any improvement yet?