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CLKD

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Low Vitamin D levels
« on: September 18, 2017, 07:56:24 PM »
I know this has been discussed here but how long is it likely to be B4 a person feels benefit once taking tablets?

Is it the case that the longer the body has been depleted the longer it will be for the body to re-adjust?

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bramble

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2017, 08:33:31 PM »
If blood tests show a low vit d level, then it takes 7 weeks taking very high prescribed vit d tablets, a further blood test and then vit d/calcium tablets to maintain. Or lots of sunshine!

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2017, 11:35:13 AM »
Mum is on a tablet twice a week for 7 weeks then she has to buy her own packets.  Apparently  ::) but she won't tell me which tablets that the GP has prescribed so I can't find out what exactly: then she keeps asking why she feels 'so ill'.  :'(.    I've taken a step back .......

She told me earlier in the year that she was 'going to stop eating to see how many people notice that I'm losing weight' ..... you really couldn't write it!!
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dahliagirl

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2017, 03:06:51 PM »
My dad stops phoning people to see if they will notice and phone him  ;)

I took 25ug/1000iu which is the Higher Strength from Sainsbugs for 6 weeks and felt a definite difference.  I do find that I have to keep taking them though.  You can get 10ug/400iu which is the current RDA but there is no harm in taking the higher strength ones.  Sometimes you can be given much, much higher doses by the GP.

Most supermarkets sell a RDA and higher strength one. I think it happened after a judge recommended cheap supplements made readily available after a case where a baby had rickets ended up in court.
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CLKD

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2017, 03:07:33 PM »
Tnx.

What is it with your Dad  ::)
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dahliagirl

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2017, 03:12:13 PM »
I don't know - social skills were never his strong point  ::)
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CLKD

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2017, 05:44:42 PM »
Like he - and my Mum - are the only pebbles on the beach?  Maybe find a beach they could sit on together  ;)
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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2017, 11:02:57 PM »
Desert Island?  ;)
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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2017, 06:29:17 PM »
I've bought some after it was mentioned on here the other day, so thank you xxx
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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2017, 07:58:32 PM »
They wouldn't agree on their 8 records though dahliagirl  ::)

Do you take your supplement daily Lil22?
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CLKD

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2018, 02:27:15 PM »
I have re-started my VitD.   After Mum's diagnosis I had similar symptoms: would do 20 mins. gardening then sit, not moving at all, for 2 hours   :-\

We've had colds.  Coughing well.  I feel knackered.  So decided that adding VitD won't hurt for a few weeks. 
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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2018, 02:57:38 PM »
I've taken supplements 3 times over the last two years but it was the third strongest dose (22,000 per day for 15 days then one a month for 6 months) that worked the quickest.

I really felt like I was low again recently as had all the symptoms but a blood test showed my levels are now good but have been advised to still take one 22,000 IU a month.

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Snoooze

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2018, 05:08:47 PM »
Sorry, just checked it's 20,000 IU. The first two lots of supplements were a very low dose that I had to take each day for 3 months but when I got tested again earlier this year, it had got worse so I was prescribed this 15 day one then one a month and it made a huge difference. I know quite a few people who have had the same dose. I think it's if your level is below 30.
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Katymac

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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2018, 05:14:51 PM »
I take a high dose daily

DLux 3000iU I think - but it's a spray so I get better absorption

I ws 26, my daughter was 24
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Re: Low Vitamin D levels
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2018, 10:06:12 PM »
How do we have 2 threads  :-\ isn't this one good enough  >:(
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