I have a doubt about vitamin D suplemmentation which is:
I was 13ng and my doctor is aiming to 50ng, my question is what should I expect when I get to 50ng.
1 - When my body hit 50ng in the blood should I feel healed? Should I be okay? My body will already have done everything he should with the new amount of vitamin D(50ng.)?
2 - Or my body will start to work the things that are messed(because of the missing vitami)n only in the precising day it hit 50ng or at least a decent amount?
I know each body each body, but, what should I expect? Number 1 or number 2?
I think it's more #3. I've noticed that vitamin D therapies go on for weeks and months, so I gather that it takes at least that long to run to completion.
However I would guess that healing can start a lot sooner, like immediately.
I presume you're taking some of those heroic 25,000 unit doses, is that every day?
Scheduled for a month?
I was running just a little low although I was taking 2,000 units per day supplement, and I raised that to 5,000 per day and that has not moved my test results even to the top of the range - but I do feel better, and that may well be part of it.
3 to 6 months you should tell a big difference , yet by month 2/ 3 some symptoms will start subsiding ... Hang in there
Im glad you got your vitamin D levels checked !!!! Now you are on your road to recovery !
Jesse you need to be on 10,000 ius D3 daily , for levels to reach optimal ! And to regain to your full health
Go with number 2. My vitamin D went from 16 to 55 in about 7-8 weeks and although I noticed improvements I was no where near my normal self. I was still in a lot of pain. Some people have gotten better quickly so I think it's different for everyone and possibly how much damage it caused or how long you were low for without realizing. I would say give yourself a realistic amount of time to recover. Your body needs time to heal itself. I don't even count the first couple of months I was on VD because I was just raising my level to a point where my body can function normally.
All recoveries in biological systems tend to be slow - patience is always required. It also varies from one person to another: some people have no symptoms of low vit D, my husband had nothing identifiable with a level in single figures. He doesn't notice a difference even with it at a decent level. Others find that once the level rises, even if it isn't yet ideal, their aches and pains improve.
You only measure what is in the blood - and vit D therapy has to fill up a black hole below the surface where the muscles and organs that store vit D are depleted. You can't tell how big that hole is. Most people need a couple of months at 50,000 IU vit D per week - but some need more or less and the only way to tell is to check blood vit D every few months until it stays stable even on a lower dose. But there is evidence that 4 months at 25,000 IU per week may work better than 2 months at 50,000 IU per week, 25,000 IU per week is probably safe enough long term unless you have an underlying medical problem such as sarcoidosis - 50,000 IU per week shouldn't be for an unlimited time without checking the blood levels. And vit D will be highest in autumn, lowest in spring - so a low result in autumn will be even lower in spring without an adequate supplement.
Actually I didn't take any oral pill, I've had some shots of 600,000 ui, its a intramuscular injection, I faced no side-effects; actually I felt a lot better after each injection, I took 3 of them in a space of 21 days between each one of them, because its a high dose.
I was 13ng and he wants to go 50ng, after new years eve I'll back go back there to see how much ng I have now.. Its been about 15 days since my last shot and 57 days since my first shot.
Also I had 5 shots of complex B, my B12 test was 300 and something, now I will need new tests to see how much they are.
I've got a lot better in my mind and general but sometimes I still face a chest pain(a lot easier than before and more rare) and I still feel like my muscles didnt have the strenght they should but I should put a point for that also in my sedentary way of living, may be?
Hi vicky, actually I've had some shots of 600,000 ui, if you check my comment above you wil see how it works.. as you said I can notice a big difference now but a bit worried about not feeling 100%..
Yes, glad I checked my vitamin D, I was facing terrible things and find a light when I've learned about vitamin D, I hope everything backs to the normal for all of us with new levels of vitamin D!
Jesse how has your anxiety / panic gotten since the shots ?
This is exactly what I wanted to know, so you knew your levels we're 55 but yet you had some symptons that were disappearing with time.. I believe this is exactly what it may be happening with me, my levels must be at least "decent" now but yet the body has some work to do until completely recover.
I assume you are ok or almost ok now? I hope so, thank you for the information.
I have a little chest pain sometimes, weakness but feeling a bit stronger than before and some weird tiredness even when doing nothing..
Y8 , so happy to hear youre recovering . Yes it dies take time . Has your anxiety / panic gotten better ?
jx41870 let me correct something about what I said.. I've just talked to my family and we're not quite sure if it was 600,000ui or 300.000ui I had in each shot.. I'll ask my doctor when I come back to see him in middle january .. But anyway, its a real high dose, you can search on internet about it and you will find plenty information :)
Thank you EileenH.
You're right, its a huge black hole in the body, we can't really measure our full recovery only by the blood tests, as you said, it requires patience.. All I know is that I had some high dose shots, when I come back to my doctor than I'll have my blood checked again and will ask him exactly how many ui I had in each shot, all I can tell is that it was really high doses.. And I'm going out in the sun more times now, its summer in my country and taking advantage on that..
Y es i know of the high dosages in shot form , however they dont give these in the united states
I am actually at 76 ng/ml now probably since I'm taking 9k/day. NO, unfortunately I do not feel a lot better but it is better than when I was first diagnosed. I am slowly noticing improvements. VERY slowly. At first, I was very obsessed with knowing where my level was at. I would take it every 8 weeks but now I could care less where I'm at as long as I am over 60ng/ml. My main concern is my symptoms because I am not feeling the best yet. So I will have to continue with my doses and hope for the best in time and I will definitely monitor my levels. I'm starting to have better days but not really good enough to go out and enjoy myself. I am giving myself until next summer to start feeling better. I started taking vitamin D late July and because it took 8 weeks to get over 50 I feel like the real healing started in October but that is just my guess.
My anxiety was one if the first symptoms to disappear but it did come back when I started a different dose. I am happy to say I don't really have anxiety anymore but I know it has not gone away completely. I may have also gotten better at dealing with it. How are you doing now?
Y8 , i too am doing better , but still have a ways to go . This deficiency is dreadful to say the least . It just takes time .. A long time !
Jesse, I can understand maybe one injection, but I'd think for vitamins D and B12 you could certainly do pills after that. Or maybe you don't like taking pills?
B12 sub-linguals (under the tongue) dissolve in seconds or minutes and give you some humongous dose and are available at any store. We just pee away any excess B12 so it's traditional, it seems, for these pills to use humongous doses.
There are all sorts of possible reasons for muscular weakness, but fixing D and B12 are a good place to start. I could add a couple more things. One that is still not well accepted by the medical community has the fancy name "Coenzyme Q10", and they started paying at least a little attention to it about twenty years ago - when it turned out the statin drugs they liked to prescribe for cholesterol was killing some people by depleting their Q10. So now they grudgingly suggest you take some Q10 along with your statins. Whole discussion there. But the point is Q10 is important, it feeds the mitochondria that power all of our cells and especially the muscles. Try some, it's available anywhere.
I'd also look at your omega-6/omega-3 balance, unless you already eat a lot of fresh, ocean fish (or grass-fed beef). Most people today get way too much omega-6 and very little omega-3, but they must be balanced or any number of things go haywire. You can search for more info online - and I wish more doctors would do so, OMG. Anyway, the usual quick fix is to take fish oil capsules, modern fish oil is molecularly distilled, for a few pennies more you get the odorless kind.
One more thing to look into is evening primrose oil, for its gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), also available from some other supplements. Something more you can search and read about, but I suggest should be on your list of nutritional things to try.
and from October to here how much in % do you got better? Your symptoms were mostly physical or mental?
Whats your personal believe: anxiety/stress reduces vitamin D or lack of vitamin D gives anxiety/stress.