Re: Re: Vitamin D deficiency

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Thank you Tracey for your reply. I will take your advise. I can't stay long time

under the sun, I have figured that before. I have been working in my office full

time and don't have time to go out. So I am taking three days off to chill and

go to the beach. It is easy for us as we look normal that we go back to our

workaholic habit. I have been given a treatment for D vitamin prescription and

my doctor will evaluate my condition in 30 days. Thanks again.

T

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From: " Tracey " <traceyincanada@...>

Hi ,

I would be very cautious about going in the sun while on gleevec.

There are much safer ways of getting vit D that won't put you at an

increased risk for getting skin cancer and if you still insist on

getting your Vit D from the sun, it only takes 10 mins of exposure

to get the vit D you need (and should be done outside of the peek UV

times which are between 10am and 4pm).

You may want to look up the archives when we discussed this a few

weeks ago. If you put " tanning " in the search box on the main page

of this site, you'll see the discussion that ensued. Also, there's

a good site here

http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section1/chapter3/3d.jsp

that talks about VitD deficiency. In the treatment section, you'll

notice that they don't even mention going in the sun as a treatment

option.

Tracey

dx Jan 2002 and white as ghost from 4+ years of Gleevec but doing

everything I can to avoid getting another cancer which means staying

out of the sun.

>

> Hi to every one. I had experienced the last two month severe

fatigue and bone pain so I blamed it on Gleevec (400 mg) as usual.

Finally I decide to ask my doctor who find out that I have a vitamin

D defficiency which cause the fatigue. Did any one had the same

problem while on Gleevec and what treatment did you go through? I

have a prescription for Vitamin D and calcium treatment and my

doctor asked me to stay under the sun as much as possible. He will

see me in one month.

> I hope you all have good summer so far. I am planning to head for

the beach as my doctor recommend. Another reason to enjoy. Life is

good.

>

> T

> dxd 1/03-Gleevec 400mg

> CCR 7/03

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