Very low Vitamin D blood test and now having negative response to Vit D supplements (Help)

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#1

Hi all,

I am creating this thread to see if anyone is in my situation or any idea what I should do.

Recently I had some blood tests which were not too good. They didn’t include vitamin D.

I decided a couple of weeks ago to test my vitamin D myself via a private test service.
The blood test came back 13.37 Ng/ml

The blood test report advised for me to start supplementing Vitamin D

I started with a low dose, day one 1000iu, same day two, day three 2000 and day four 3000 iu

I got a bad reaction, my already stiff neck has got worse, pain in lower and upper back and left knee. I have now discontinued it.

My calcium levels are normal range.

When I am in the sun I feel I get a vitamin D hit and get no negative sides.
In fact the sun makes my symptoms and my well being so much better.

What can I do to try make my body absorb it better?
I live in Ireland and we really only get warm sunshine May to August

I am thinking it might be a receptor issue as last Christmas I took Boron small dose for four days and got really bad thoracic back pain, time and chiropractic treatment resolved it

One other thing, my breakfast is always 1 and 1/2 portion of Bran flakes and actimel drink which is 85% of Vitamin D RDA and I probably get more rest of the day with diet.

#2

What bloods did you get that was “not so good”?

Also vitamin d takes a long time to accumulate, so raising the dosage day by day like that it’s the best choice. Should start low for a couple of months and re-test.

We don’t really know much about vitamin d’s role in PFS but personally I’ve been between 25-50 ng/dL or so and not felt much difference.

#3

My cholesterol has doubled from 2 to 4.2
My triglycerides has gone to above out of range from normal
My thyroid TSH has gone from 2 to 4.8
My testosterone dropped from 25 to 19

All after just taking two Tribulus capsules 8 months ago.

My Doc is sending me to see a urologist

But I cannot take Vitamin D anymore, it’s giving me back, neck and knee pain which is scaring me.

#4

Yeah don’t use it if you get a bad reaction. Maybe try getting daily sun in the summer and then you can re-test your value if you want to see if there’s any difference.

Not sure how a urologist could help you with those issues though, maybe a endocrinologist would be a better option.

#5

I told my Doc that it made my penal shrinkage worse and losing hair on body, legs and arm.

But maybe I should see an endocrinologist which he also seem to suggest

#6

Hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia is both common if you are hypothyroid.

So might be why you got it. But you should talk to a knowledgeable doc about it.

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#7

Okay thank you

Just thinking I got a letter from local hospital last week about urology appointment for next month so assume my doc arranged it from recent GP visit but I had prostate scan in January so maybe its about that

But not sure they would leave it this long if an issue showed up on scan

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