Re: Vitamin D: 6 Months In

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>

> I have been taking relatively high doses [10,000 IU per day] of

> vitamin d for 6 months now.

>

> I can't begin to tell you how much pain and other symptoms have

> disappeared.

>

> I first got interested in vitamin d from a show on one of the

health

> channels on obesity. One guy was having severe pain and muscle

> spasms in his lower back making walking and exersize impossible.

>

> At the time, I could barely walk, was often falling down and was in

a

> lot of pain unless I was sitting down. I had already bought my

> rollator and was wondering how long until I needed electronic

wheels.

>

> I am now walking around 3/4 of a mile a day with my dogs and can

> navigate Walmart without so much as a twinge.

>

>

>

> It was discovered that he was deficient in vitamin d, which is not

a

> vitamin, rather it is a hormone we usually make from the sun.

>

> Somewhere along the way, either through being constantly low or

> deficient we open ourselves up to develop chronic illnesses like

> autoimmune diseases and cancer which further drains our vitamin d

> levels and then we are invalids.

>

> Well, on thanksgiving I got a cold and it was the lightest cold

ever

> and I have COPD and some sort or intense inflammation in my right

> lung so this is usally the beginning of my winter pneumonia. Not

> this year...

>

> You would not have known I had a cold at all except at night when

my

> tempurature rose a bit and I had some coughing during the night.

By

> day 10 I was fine.

>

> THere are way too many links out there and all I can say is to

> investigate it by googling Vitamin D.

>

> There is the

> vitamindcouncil.org

> which is a good place to start.

>

> But here is the fast facts.

>

> If you have a chronic illness, if you are obese, if you stay out of

> the sun or if you are lathered in protection, if you don't eat

foods

> laden in vitamin d [truly, this days they are hard to find] you are

> probably deficient.

>

> Get a 25 Hydroxyvitamin d test run...NOT the 1,25 test...

>

> you want to be between 50 and 75 ng/mil.. my last test put me at

76.

> Unfortunately, Docters may be happy to get you up to 20 or 35

ng/mil

> which is the lower limit on lab results. That is NOT good enough.

>

> You want to take Vitamin D3 to get levels up... you cannot get

this

> from the sun once you are deficient and need to take supplements.

>

> The Docs will prescribe D2, ask about just buying D3. [D2 is

synthetic and not very good for you]

>

> I get mine from biotech pharmical

http://www.bio-tech-pharm.com/

on the web and there are other

> recommendations at the vitamin d council site.

>

> It is safe to start with 2000IU a day without testing, especially

in

> winter. But you should get a deficiency documented.

>

> If you are deficient, it is safe to take 10,000IU for four months.

I

> have been taking this amount for 6 months, and I won't recommend

that

> for anyone else, but I am hoping it will help my lung inflammation

> which could be really bad if it continues to spread in my lungs.

My

> last ct scan indicated that it was smaller.. so we will see.

>

> It hasn't done much for the arthritis in my lower back, but that is

> so minor.. I don't even worry about it. But it could still get

> better down down the road. At least I hope so..

>

> If any of you should or have already check out your Vitamin D

status

> and if you were deficient please let me know if supplementation as

> helped...

>

> I confess I only check in every now and then, but you can always

send

> a copy of the email to me at lecody2001@...

>

> Vitamin D isn't a cureall, but its close and if you are deficient,

> once that is corrected and those symptoms are gone, if there are

any

> left, you may have a better chance at a diagnosis and treatment.

>

> Cody

>