Vit D tests not available anymore

[Robinredbreast]

No I don't take that one - that's to stop bone cell turnover I think. I seem to recall there was some downside to taking that, but can't remember what.

Yes we do have the same auto-immune conditions.

Apparently after 5 years of taking Alendronic, you are advised to stop as it can have the reverse effects,

 

[Brunneria]

I expect that, as the word about vit d deficiency is spreading, the labs have been swamped with testing, and the cost to the NHS has gone through the roof.
Hence the clampdown.

I would love to know what proportion of testees are deficient!

I don't need a test - I know I am deficient.
Only see daylight at weekends from Sept to April, and I wear SPF 50 all year round.
How could I not be deficient?
So I supplement when I remember to take the dratted capsules!

 

[donnellysdogs]

I did take vit d but thought I'd come off and ask for a test....just to see whether my working and being outdoors so much was keeping my levels up etc...

Oh well, will phone Company for a testkit tomorrow..

 

[noblehead]

My consultant requested a vitamin d test.

This is the response:

Population screening by measurement of vitamin d levels is unecessary, even in high risk populations.
Please see the National Osteoporsis Society guidelines on vitamin d and health.
Www.nos.org.uk/document.doc?id=1352
Please note Alfacalcidiol is NOT detected by this assay.

So it's recognised that diabetics may have low vitamin d levels and they are no longer allowing testing?

Anybody else had this trouble or request refused?

Not sure if I've ever been tested DD, were they routinely done as part of our annual diabetes health check?

 

[donnellysdogs]

Not sure if I've ever been tested DD, were they routinely done as part of our annual diabetes health check?

Only done if consultants were aware that vit d is lower in diabetics...and they were either asked (like me) or thought something needed investigating..

Not a standard test, but was available upon request.

 

[iHs]

If Vitamin D tests are not available anymore on the NHS, what is the point of companies manufacturing Vitamin D injections?

 

[iHs]

Only done if consultants were aware that vit d is lower in diabetics...and they were either asked (like me) or thought something needed investigating..

Not a standard test, but was available upon request.

I requested my Vitamin D levels to be checked via my diabetes consultant as I was curious to know whether I was deficient or not as I had not been out in the sun much due to a dreadful summer with loads of rain and I was also experiencing leg cramp at night.
The test revealed that I was deficient so GP did an injection and the leg cramp stopped.

 

[donnellysdogs]

This was requested by my consultant too but still rejected!!

 

[Brunneria]

I ended up at the hospital last week, chest pains .....
Long story cut short, I had a load of blood tests, they let me go home at around 10pm after being in there nearly all day. Then a CT Scan the following day. I had high potassium and D Dimmer test. Then I saw the AMU Dr and he asked me more questions and ordered a Vitamin D test.
Apparently, he's written to my surgery and told them to put me on Vit D.
I'm hoping I get the injection to put things right sooner than waiting for meds to build levels up.
I had asked my GP about it last year though, then the diabetes nurse, the useless one, not the good one. Everyone ignored me.
I'm with you on this one though, everyone who is diagnosed with Diabetes should have Vit D checked as a matter of course, on diagnosis.

Goodness, hope you are ok?
It's so bl**dy frustrating when they don't listen!

Hope the tabs/injections help (didn't know D came in injections!)