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Way better after Vit D

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caliborpee
caliborpee

While posting last year in this forum sorting out my GS problems, I realized no doctor on my three years of feeling bad tested my vit D despite the matching symptoms like fatigue, body pain etc. Only this year through my second or third endocrinologist I found out to be insufficient.

I was prescripted 1000 IU per day but took 5000 for most of the treatment by its safety and wanting to feel better faster. After six months of supplementation I went from 26ng/ml to 92, which looks little since I "overdosed" but improved so much my health: less fatigue and pain, better sleep, feeling more productive in years! The real kick was one of my relatives telling me I looked less dead compared to months before (so I was really tired and it wasn't my mind). Also my zinc improved despite no diet changes or other reason to explain it.

Now at two months after stopping the treatment I'm feeling such symptoms slightly returning again (doesn't help to have a darker skin), but now I'm prepared against and knowing not all my problems are directly related to gilbert syndrome.

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