lunabee34

Thank you! This is really interesting. You're raising some issues one of my RL friends brought up that I don't have a good answer for.

So, the doctor prescribed 50,000 units to be taken once weekly. I have a couple of RL friends who had D deficiencies who were also treated this way, and my interneting seems to suggest this is SOP for treating a D deficiency. Take the once weekly 50,000 for 6 months to a year, and if the value is in range, switch to daily supplementation. What I can't figure out is the rationale for treating that way. The closest I saw on a site was the idea that you're a sieve, and all your D has been leaking out a hole in the bottom, so you need these huge dumps of D to get the levels up while it's still leaking out the bottom and that smaller doses would all just leak out more quickly? Or something like that. But I still don't really understand why doing it this way is better than on a daily basis, especially with the ledge effect at the end of the week. Naturally, when I found out I have the deficiency, it was after the doc visit was over and the labs had come in, so it was the just the nurse calling in the RX and leaving me a message about it. I think I might call them and ask for some more info; I don't want to go back in because everything I'm reading has suggested that a severe D deficiency takes a really long time to get over and a really long time to start feeling better, so I'm guessing I just have to suck it up, but I think I should call and ask about the rationale and etc.

I've been trying to eat more foods with vitamin D like milk and cheese and eggs and fish. Now that it's warm and sunny, I've been going outside for a little every day and getting some sun, too.

My B12 was within range but at the very low end of the range, so I've been taking B12 every night in the hopes that will help too.

*hugs*