Cats & Dogs love Vit D, that's why you see them lying on the floor where the sun shines through the windows, they are lapping it up, my missus takes a Calcium Carbonate & Cholecalciferol tablet twice a day, the second bit is 10mcg of Vit D3.
D3 is the type I buy too - I haven't added Calcium C to our supplements though - perhaps I should. I do have some that I got fairly recently.
I have a lot of respect for supplements if the right type are found - where all else failed to help when I developed IBS after my Dad died, the talk was of then trying tri-cyclic anti-depressants, and that was something I certainly didn't want to take if I could avoid it. A bit of searching for an equivalent supplement produced info on 3 amino acids that closely mimic the effects of such drugs: L-theanine, Taurine and GABA, and to my surprise, I found a complex containing all three: Theanine Serene ...and although not developed for IBS specifically, it actually works with calming painful spasms etc.
Doesn't do much for colitis though which is a different thing again.
I always try to pop outside 2 or 3 times during daylight hours even if it's only for a few minutes at a time, just to top mine up.
I tend to be doing my most intense hours of work between late spring and the end of summer, and as such, can miss out on decent weather - we've had a fairly cold summer this year, so that hasn't helped. I seem to be feeling cold very easily recently too. (could be thyroid, iron deficiency or whatever).
I've been trying to get out more this past couple of weeks though as my concentration has been so bad it wasn't worth trying to force it.
I hate blood tests if they are not taken by the dedicated team up at the Hospital, because the veins in the crook of my elbow are very shallow, and they have trouble finding them, I quite often end up bruised afterwards if the ward nurses do them, but they normally disappear quite quickly.
All my life, I've hated blood tests to the point I'll resist and sometimes get quite upset by dogged insistence because they always seem to hurt considerably. I would get quite angry by them repeatedly saying what lovely veins I had and how it would be easy! They aren't me and hadn't a clue what I'd be feeling.
14 years ago, my then doctor (best I ever had) had a practitioner nurse working with him who explained that the pain is when a nerve is unavoidably hit, and added to my low pain threshold, could feel very uncomfortable. She always used the finest needle she could and took as much care as she could to be gentle. Somehow, although she did touch a nerve now and then, it was never overly painful, and never left a bruise. As such, I always went for my tests quite happily.
Yesterday was very unpleasant with intense pain shooting up to my shoulder, and she said it was my fault for tensing! I'd already told her about my past problems with it, but like most, she chose to ignore it. The other arm posed virtually no problem because she was either more careful or managed to avoid a nerve mostly.
In one fell swoop, she's undone the confidence I'd gained through others understanding. Since seeing the mess of my arm this morning, and added to the anxiety of waiting for results, I've been feeling quite 'off' and ridiculously upset. Quite annoyed with myself to be honest.
Remember Gilligans Island?
To me
