Re: V/ D

[Guest guest]

Yep Sunshine is the only way to go. I can only take a few min at a time but I do love it.  Love and Prayers, Peggy   IPF  2004,  Florida"Worry looks around, Sorry looks back,  Faith looks up." Vitamin D deficiency?  Get out in the sunshine, sunshine!   I don't know about the US, but some foods here are fortified with vit D, so look out for that too.   Vit D deficiency is also a major factor in SAD.Other than that, judging by the amount of different blood tests I've had for me, so that's not including blood tests that are looking out for different diseases that are not currently related to me, I would have thought that having every conceivable blood test in one go would simply be time prohibitive.   Also cost prohibitive.  If your docs constantly over did blood tests how much would it push your insurance up?  And some tests need to be repeated.  I was diagnosed with antiphospho lipid syndrome.  Last time I had a test it was negative, but I have been told that it can reappear at any time (hence having to remain on anticoagulants for life)   But I will have to be tested for that.  Love Ze xx>> Ok, tossing this one out. Every time I see an additional doctor or one> in a different field, I find myself having more blood tests for> different things. The nephrologist found several things that the> primary, pulmonologist, hospital and rheumatologist didn't test for. One> seems so simple but it was a huge Vitamin D deficiency. I'm just> wondering why with patients known to have complicated illnesses or> several conditions that one can't run all the tests at once for all the> doctors to ultimately use. Now, many of mine have been used by other> doctors but there is just always more. The nephrologist also found> another thing that meant a referral to another specialist> -hematologist/oncologist. I would have thought 22 tubes of blood in> Chicago would have been enough...lol. But each doctor looks at all my> blood tests which have been done and then orders just a few more. Just> seems to me that with all my trips to a doctor and blood taken, finding> an extreme Vitamin D deficiency should have been done long ago.>