vitamin d who knew

She’s been telling me for months to take some! She even got some reinforcement from a CDC article that stated that Vit D deficiency is a key reason that the flu season is in the winter, when people get less exposure to the sun, and thus, their vitamin D levels drop. I can post the link if you’d like.
We both take 4000 IU’s per day now.

Kevie has been taking it for a couple of months, his number was 22. The range for normal was 20 to I am not sure. But even at 22, the doc wanted it at 30!!! We are always in the sun, we have a pool and I have NEVER even bought sunscreen, the derm. lectured me about Kevie and I being so tan. His number was 22 in August. I wonder if the immune system being haywire has something to do with it. I also wonder if my obssesive thought of Leaky Gut has something to do with it since the permeation causes malabsorption? When I asked for Vit D testing, the doc said we needed to get D with hydroxie or something like that for a true number. I think I remember seeing vit D OH or something. He told us to be sure to get vit d caltrate, I guess you need the calcium to absorb the d or visa versa. I haven’t really spent to much time reading about it since this leaky gut thing and weaning down is taking up so much of my time.
Dawn

Dawn,

A lot of the Vitamin D that I’ve seen on the shelves now has calcium in the pills to aid absorption,

Elmo

Hi Tara,

I had no idea how important Vitamin D was until last year. I was having the worse cramps and muscle spasms and assumed I needed to up my potassium (I take a diuretic). Bananas, orange juice and yogurt are great for potassium, but didn’t get rid of the spasms and cramps. Eventually, I thought I should drag myself to the doctor as self medicating wasn’t working. 😉 My Vit D level was 6!! :eek:. I was prescribed 50,0000 IU’s once a week. The cramps and spasms left almost immediately. Now that my levels are somewhat normal, I take 50,000 IU’s twice a month. In the summer, I may be able to reduce it to once a month.

Dawn, I’m surprised Kevin’s #’s were so low, especially since he was getting enough sun.

I’m finally starting to realize how important it is to receive the proper amount of vitamins, though there isn’t much sun to be found during Michigan winters. 🙂

Tina – I’m about 30 minutes our so north of you & these MI winters are BRUTAL!

I will actually lay in the floor in front of the sliding glass door (with the pets) on sunny days during the winter. Feeling the warmth of sun does wonders for the soul! We don’t get too many sunny days here & when we do I soak it up!

Unfortunately i’ve never seen any research about Vit-D and CIDP as our disease is an orphan disease however there has been alot of studies showing Vit – D possibly helping Multiple Sclerosis and since it is a cousin disease i imagine that what possibly helps MS may apply to us with CIDP also 🙂 .