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Vitamin D deficient !

conniecar

conniecar

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Hi - just had a call from the doctors receptionist to say my blood test has come back with a low vitamin D count and to get my prescription. I've felt rubbish since November and it was assumed because I had muscle pain, bone pain, pins and needles and felt down that I had neuropathy. After 40 years you sort of expect it don't you, so I was prescribed an ever increasing dose of Gabapentin for the pains. Anyone else had this? I'm dead chuffed to have escaped again and again promised to be a perfect diabetic like we all do, but wow.....I need to maybe apologise/cheer up as members of my family have had nothing but ' I can't do that now because I'm DISABLED' and ' This is it, my legs will be coming off soon.' So don't just assume pins and needles and sore limbs are neuropathy - it might be vitamin D ( off to walk in the Yorkshire light , so that's rain, for a big vitamin D jab .) x
 
Yep.. Vit D is a huge player...
Are they giving you a combined vit D and calcium tablet?

If so, just check the ingredients... The NHS one I was given had aspartame in it and aspartame and sweeteners also kill my legs from thigh to knees and it is excruciating.

There is a vit D tablet without aspartame though.

I buy my own vit d in liquid form. Just 2 drops on my food daily. It is pure, no additives or preservatives or sweeteners.

I too was given all the gabapentin type drugs but for me mine was aspartame, sweeteners and preservatives and Vit D to blame.
 
Yup.

A whole raft of aches and pains cleared up when I started taking Vit D.
Did they tell you to take vit K2 with it too? Bet they didn't, eh? But it is very important for absorption and use of Vit D to take K2 at the same time. You can get it from the health food store, really easily. But make sure it is not K1, since that serves a completely different purpose in the body. Don't take my word for it - there is masses of info on the internet about this, if you go looking.

Hope you feel the same benefits I did. Sleep better. Body feels better, and the nagging grinding low mood lifted too. I think I will be taking Vit D for life. I feel like a different person.
 
donnellysdogs said:
Yep.. Vit D is a huge player...
Are they giving you a combined vit D and calcium tablet?

If so, just check the ingredients... The NHS one I was given had aspartame in it and aspartame and sweeteners also kill my legs from thigh to knees and it is excruciating.

There is a vit D tablet without aspartame though.

I buy my own vit d in liquid form. Just 2 drops on my food daily. It is pure, no additives or preservatives or sweeteners.

I too was given all the gabapentin type drugs but for me mine was aspartame, sweeteners and preservatives and Vit D to blame.
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I regularly have sweeteners in squash......so might try without? Isn't that funny how you went through the Gabapentin thing too? ( Well not such a rib tickler .) Thanks for taking the time to reply
 
Brunneria said:
Yup.

A whole raft of aches and pains cleared up when I started taking Vit D.
Did they tell you to take vit K2 with it too? Bet they didn't, eh? But it is very important for absorption and use of Vit D to take K2 at the same time. You can get it from the health food store, really easily. But make sure it is not K1, since that serves a completely different purpose in the body. Don't take my word for it - there is masses of info on the internet about this, if you go looking.

Hope you feel the same benefits I did. Sleep better. Body feels better, and the nagging grinding low mood lifted too. I think I will be taking Vit D for life. I feel like a different person.
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Thank you so much ! It's so nice to get advice from people who get it ( no offence to non diabolical people, but you're just not 'diabolical'. ) I'm glad I'll feel different but my family will be really, really glad as I'm a first class hypochondriac too ( think it goes with the territory .) So thank you xxxx
 
I take calcichew d forte and Alficalcidol, consultant told me to get out in sunshine (if sun is out) for twenty minutes exposing as much body as possible no sun cream etc, that mixed with meds has got me back to near normal readings.
 
Well went back to the pharmacy and they said they'd have to order mine in as it was a high dose they didn't stock routinely? I asked if it was combined with calcium etc but they said no. I don't know how low I am as it was a message passed on by the the receptionist , but the pharmacy said it was 'high strength?' Am I safe to take vitamin K2 as well ? All new to me this
 
Have a google, so you are comfortable with this advice (check everything, and don't take what i say as gospel - cos I'm just a stranger on the internet! Lol) but, from memory, i think you are OK to have 100mg of K2 for every 1,000 units of vit D, up to a certain level.

So you need to check on the dose of D your doc has prescribed, and then take the appropriate K2, until you hit the max daily amount of K2.

Hope that helps.
 
Brunneria said:
Did they tell you to take vit K2 with it too? Bet they didn't, eh? But it is very important for absorption and use of Vit D to take K2 at the same time.
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I'd just started taking Vit D and didn't know about the K2, so cheers for that.
 
Oh, and take your vit D in the mornings.
It may keep you awake, if you have it in the evenings... It IS the sunshine vitamin. :D
 
Brunneria said:
Oh, and take your vit D in the mornings.
It may keep you awake, if you have it in the evenings... It IS the sunshine vitamin. :D
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I can't bloody wait ! I don't live in the sunshine county ( I live where Happy Valley is set - oh the irony ! ) Thanks all x
 
I have to take a Vitamin D tablet everyday. But I have to take mine because the tablets I take for Epilepsy effect the metabolism of vitamin D and can make me deficient! Surprisingly I had no symptoms to suggest I was deficient.
 
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