Vitamin deficiencies

[carina62]

At my last diabetic review, I was found to have a vitamin D deficiency so was prescribed vitamin D tablets for 12 weeks. Apart from vitamin D, what other vitamins could we (Type 2 diabetics on Metformin) be deficient in? I will now keep a check on my Vit D levels from now on and request another blood test for this at my next review.

 

[Shar67]

B6 and B12 are usual suspects, but you can have low levels of them all, GP should test every 3 months if you have low Vit D

 

[Bluetit1802]

Just be aware of the symptoms of any vitamin and mineral deficiencies. These are normally apparent, although not always associated with a deficiency. It is easy to blame symptoms on diabetes itself, or other conditions. These symptoms can be found on Google.

 

[Brunneria]

low carbing can result in deficiencies in salt and potassium.

MANY people are chronically deficient in magnesium.

Anyone taking vitamin D (hopefully Vit D3) should be taking a proportional amount of K2 at the same time (that is K2 not K1 which has a different function).

Beyond that, I think we are all so unique it is impossible to generalise...