I think I'm writing this piece as advice or just to say it yet again.
Having been through a very tough patch culminating in surgery, which may well have altered my body chemistry, I was diagnosed as vitamin D deficient in February.
I was given 40000iu weekly. Though within guidelines, seemed a bit steep to me, especially as my packet said 20000 per two weeks.
Anyway not long after taking first dose I suffered shaking, I foolishly thought its meno anxiety. I then became very weak and more shaky. Started to think this is a sign I really need vitamin D. This progressed to low blood sugars, every 5 minutes, pins and needles, ****ly heat sensation. Loss of appetite, the runs, funny taste. I nearly went to A&E I thought I was dying. I do wish I had.
I simply missed it.
I plodded on for 4 weeks, life feeling like it was over, anxiety, shaking weakness, weight loss. I asked for an early blood test and my levels were already near top of optimum, I had already de iced to stop them as I was getting more ill.
4 weeks after stopping them I am slowly recovering, but decided to report the symptoms to the makers who initially said non of it could be vitamin D related. However he did eventually concede that it would most likely have caused my chronic low sugars as I already had low sugars. He decided I had an allergic reaction to something in it and I would take at East 8 weeks to leave my system.
I have thought I was going mad these last months and been so frightened by my weakness and shaking and anxiety. I have felt do alone trawling the net trying so hard to find an explanation for the dreadful way I felt. All the docs said the vitamin could not have caused the problem, yet I. Was normal the day before.
I just wish I had gone to A&E and maybe I would have stopped at 1 dose.