exhaustion

[MoonDance]

I was feeling dead tired and other symptoms - went to endocrinologist and he ran tests...my vit d was 7.
Yes, 7, and that is like er, almost NONE. Took supplements and its starting to help.
Hang in there

 

[Dark.Angel]

I was feeling dead tired and other symptoms - went to endocrinologist and he ran tests...my vit d was 7.
Yes, 7, and that is like er, almost NONE. Took supplements and its starting to help.
Hang in there

can you tell me the amounts you took to get your levels back up, and the type of vitamin D you took, I would like to start taking it myself Another person said 60,000 a week eek. If you could tell me how much you took daily for how long etc it would be very helpful

 

[meems]

I was feeling dead tired and other symptoms - went to endocrinologist and he ran tests...my vit d was 7.
Yes, 7, and that is like er, almost NONE. Took supplements and its starting to help.
Hang in there

Holy cow..7 is BAD! I think I was 24 & was in bad shape. Please take magnesium with your D..it will help a lot, if you are on script strength (or any higher levels)it will rev up your magnesium consumption, but don't take "from oxide" I supplement with slow mag. All my pain & fatigue was back..I got on the slow mag & it was miraculous!

 

[meems]

can you tell me the amounts you took to get your levels back up, and the type of vitamin D you took, I would like to start taking it myself Another person said 60,000 a week eek. If you could tell me how much you took daily for how long etc it would be very helpful

I was on 50,000 every week, that was last year, this year, my GF was given 50,000 TWICE a week & was told to take an additional 5,000 a day. Had I been given it twice a week, it wouldn't have taken 3 months to get my levels back, so I see why they did it that way. It took me a full month of prescription strength to start feeling some relief....absolutely life changing for me!

 

[Addicted2Vap]

if all else fails some vendors sell juice with caffeine in it

 

[meems]

Trust me, when your D is that low..no amount of caffeine is going to help.

 

[Dark.Angel]

if all else fails some vendors sell juice with caffeine in it

heck I drink enough coffee, if I drink too much it hurts my stomach. There are so many reasons yet, the MOST logical I have found is that nicotine alone just isn't enough there is so many other things we were getting from the tobacco leaf itself, the MAOI's just to name 1 I wrote a post earlier in the thread I posted i regards to this

 

[Hack]

Drink coffee...

 

[Dark.Angel]

Trust me, when your D is that low..no amount of caffeine is going to help.

I was hoping to be able to up my levels without a RX. I guess I must try to get yet another RX approved by my Dickensian insurance company......they feel cost and coverage is far more important then my doctors professional knowledge and of course my health. I'm at the moment appealing one and dealing with pre authorization on 3 others. It's madness!! They TELL my goctor that THEY want me to try other medications first I mean who the $%&#@ do they think they are they are NOT DOCTORS!!!

 

[pack21]

if all else fails some vendors sell juice with caffeine in it

lol....really?

 

[zadane]

yup, check out vaporrenew you can choose to add caffeine to your juice if you order from them

 

[Dark.Angel]

lol....really?

IMHO I don't want to inhale caffeine, I would seriously read up and research this, drinking caffeine is one thing its absorbed through your digestive system, vaporizing it put it into your LUNGS your respiratory system. How does this effect your body, we know that things taken into our respiratory system are absorbed quite quickly Is this safe? we know drinking high doses of caffeine can cause the heart to speed up, your heart! I STOPPED Analogs for many reasons one was simply because I did not want all the chemicals I'm not going to start adding ones that have no research or testing behind them. Just because its safe to drink does NOT mean its save to inhale. What's next

 

[meems]

I was hoping to be able to up my levels without a RX. I guess I must try to get yet another RX approved by my Dickensian insurance company......they feel cost and coverage is far more important then my doctors professional knowledge and of course my health. I'm at the moment appealing one and dealing with pre authorization on 3 others. It's madness!! They TELL my goctor that THEY want me to try other medications first I mean who the $%&#@ do they think they are they are NOT DOCTORS!!!

It's really something that should be monitored anyway, it is possible to get too much, so you need to know where you are to start with. Insurance companies piss me off! Meanwhile...try to get in the sun, peak hour exposure, at least 15 minutes a day longer if you don't burn...no sunscreen, it blocks D absorbtion. Not sure where your location is, my problem in Ohio is the sun is not close enough to us from Oct - May..I could sit out all day naked & not get enough D naturally.

Start googling what vitamin D affects & you will be amazed! I was the one who discovered what my problem was by googling..9 months of hell, 3 rheumys, neurologist...forget who all, but 7 specialistas later & I had no answers (well, one rheumy noticed low D, but didn't think it was the cause of my pain & didn't prescibe dosing high enough to touch the issue, 1200 MG! PHHT..nothing!) Final outcome they were ready to write me off as fibromyalgia..I refused the scripts, kept digging. Asked my GP for another D test..BINGO! I went from not being able to clap my hands at a baseball game from so much pain...to swinging a bat playing softball once my levels were up.

 

[Ardeagold]

Remember, you want vitaman D3. And there are test kits you can buy over the net to tell you how much D is in your system. Here's one of them:

Vitamin D Deficiency Test - Home Collection Test Kit

You send it to a lab for the results. No doctor visit necessary, however, to find out how much you need to take to get the levels where they should be (which is >30 ng/mL) you might need a doctor. But if you're really low you can up your D3 at home with supplements and test again later.

If you have insurance, it's probably cheaper overall to go through your doctor.

 

[Dark.Angel]

Thank you Meems and Ardaegold, I will be seeing my Doctor again on the 12th I will be requesting some blood work as its time for a liver function and other precautionary test which are required due to the medication I take, I will be adding a Vitamin D level to the mix. I received the results of a few back one being that special Lyme Disease one its Negative I did find out another thing which is at epidemic proportions its called Malnutrition, that word seems to evoke images of children in third world countries with distended bellies, no longer is that true. I'm not talking about malnutrition that is caused by poor food choices or junk food, I'm talking about the malnutrition that is due to poverty, the one that is because those who need proper food can NOT get it. At the end of last year I blacked out in a parking lot, I was suffering from exhaustion, severe anemia and malnutrition I was placed on supplements, Iron and bed rest. Well, the blood work done last visit showed I'm still suffering from malnutrition, I could have told them that without blood work LOL

 

[meems]

I have bouts of malnutrition...from my ulcerative colitis...but that's a whole other story in itself..

Ditto on D3 (f the bottle doesnt say 3, it's D2, not as easily absorbed) & I can't scream the magnesium (NOT FROM OXIDE) loud enough..critical cofactor with vitamin D. This was one thing my GP didn't know until I told him & he researched it to verify.

ETA..and I've always read you want your levels to be between 60 & 80...they stopped my script therapy when I hit 60. I then continued on 5,000 IUs a day.

 

[dinky]

hey dark.... love the cat. sounds like u need to contact the indian reservations that make cigs that u can have shipped. suspect their stuff doesnt have all the crap in it that the others do...... and i wonder if they would be willing to sell u some tobacco leaves if u tell them why u want them.

im following ur thought process here. will be interesting to see what u come up with as u research this further.

 

[dinky]

wow moondance. that is really low...... did the dr start u on the supps? i guess i want to know how u know u are taking the right amount of what. dont want to od but need it to be beneficial at the same time. always worry about getting too much of a good thing and all. let us know .... would ya.

 

[dinky]

yeah im loving the insurance cos too. im still fighting the tail end of that nasty fungal pneumonia i had last yr. dr wnats me on certain allergy meds and now another round of antibiotics. well the allergy meds are 150.00 a month. not covered.... take something else. the antibiotic is for stubborn infections...... 170.00 again take something else. my dr knows nothing and they know it all.

 

[dinky]

wow meems. im happy for u. that awesome......