Vitamin D Status

Hey!  I think you've hit on the perfect prescription for low Vitamin D....a cruise!!! Why didn't I think of that!  I hope you have a wonderful time!

 

I think you'll find this interesting.....My husband is diabetic and recently had a check-up with his encocrinologist.  At the end of his appointment, I asked the doc about his views on Vitamin D.  He had just attended a conference and said that a great deal of focus was given to Vitamin D.  He predicts in the next 10 years, Vitamin D will be like cholesterol has been over these past 10 years.  He is now checking levels on all his patients and has found only 1 in 30 of his diabetic patients to be within normal limits!  He went on to say that his own level was about 24, and his goal was to raise it to 50. 

 

I was diagnosed early Jan. of this year.  About 3 months prior to diagnosis, I had quit taking my Citracal (calcium plus Vitamin D 630mg/400iu, 2 caps three times a day with meals, and a multi vitamin with 800 iu vitamin D.)  After diagnosis I got right back on these supplements, and at the end of May, my first Vitamin D test was 33.  I have made a point to get some sunshine every day (not hard living in Alabama!) and my Vitamin D level now, done by the internist mid July, is  58!  Yeah!

 

 

 

 

Caryn,

 

I bet our endocrinologists did go to the same conference!  So glad some speaker got them interested in Vit. D.  Wish these oncologists would get on the band wagon now.  Maybe others on the forum will tell us what their oncologists and other doctors are saying when asked about Vit. D.  I don't see how they can keep ignoring the subject when it is all over the news and in the journals.

 

I sat 15 minutes in the sun today, out in my herb garden.  The temp here is 101!  I did have a glass of iced tea to get me through....but a dip in a pool sure would have been nice! 

 

Will be anxious to hear how your next Vit. D test comes out!  

 

Way to Go, Nancy!  Having a Vit. D level of 57 is great news! I read recently a level of 60 is what most life gaurds would be at the end of summer.  (I would imagine that would be without supplements and sun only.)  Now if we can just keep these levels up during the winter months!

 

Has anyone read or been told how often Vit. D levels should be checked?  I'm going to try and ask my husband's endocrinologist what he would advise....but won't see him until Nov.

 

Nancy, do let us know Lori's level.  It will most likely be just fine, as much as you say she spends outside with her exercise program.

 

 

 

Sooooo Nancy.....You're literally "SEEING RED?" Maybe you're just all stirred up over the Vitamin D issue!!!! hehehe  Well, that's my best guess.....sorry, no computer help here. 

 

Read page 6 of that article. Lori had researched this and also, this article is very recent. It says...

 

"However, ergocalciferol is not human vitamin D, it may be a weaker agonist, it is not normally present in humans and its consumption results in metabolic by-products not normally found in humans. It is also two-to-four times less effective than colecalceferol in raising 25(OH)D levels."

 

Just repeating what Ronda had said many weeks ago. Does your script say colecalceferol? Also, may I ask what the cost for this is?

I posted some more links on another topic started by Skippy123.

 

I just think it is so interesting that when I was a kid, we never heard of Autism, and it seems as though we were so much healthier. No sunscreen, and we took cod liver oil alot. My Mom was a RN, and she was always telling us that we had to get sun. Guess they knew better then than they do now.

Hugs,

Nancy