Re: Thank you! So for those of you supplementing...

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Mine is by prescription... I also have Fibro, and being overweight, and living in MAine ( lack of sunlight and access to it ) I am wondering about the corrolation to it all.... actually when I stop to think , my Fibro pain has been less, in the last few weeks. I started the Vitamin D in October. HUMMM.

Subject: Thank you! So for those of you supplementing...To: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 7:52 PM

....is this just OTC Vitamin D? Or something you had to get by prescription? I can wait until I see my endo, obviously, but I'm wondering. Thanks.> > >> > > Hi everyone,> > > I was just wondering if any of you caught the Dr. Oz episode today? It> > was quite interesting, he mentioned that many overweight people suffer from> > a vitamin D deficiency and this can cause severe leg pain and cramping. I> > have fibromyalgia and have long blamed that on my leg pain but in my quest> > to re-gain my health I started taking vitamins about 2 months ago…including> > vitamin D! I have had only very mild leg pain recently and after watching Dr> > Oz I am convinced that it was the deficiency in this vitamin that caused it!> > I just wanted to share that as I wish I had known it sooner, I have suffered> > through several years of quite severe leg pain and never

has my Dr suggested> > that it might be something as simple as a vitamin deficiency!> > >> >> >> > > >> > > > -->

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you can definitely get 1000 OTC.i am surprised your doctor didnt already prescribe you something! it's not a big deal to take it, and it will help you so much.i should NOT be giving you medical advice... but if it were me, i'd by the biggest OTC dose i could buy and take a few a day, like 5000. 

i think it's quite safe. they even put it in milk, for goodness sake.

 

....is this just OTC Vitamin D? Or something you had to get by prescription? I can wait until I see my endo, obviously, but I'm wondering. Thanks.

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> > > I was just wondering if any of you caught the Dr. Oz episode today? It

> > was quite interesting, he mentioned that many overweight people suffer from

> > a vitamin D deficiency and this can cause severe leg pain and cramping. I

> > have fibromyalgia and have long blamed that on my leg pain but in my quest

> > to re-gain my health I started taking vitamins about 2 months ago…including

> > vitamin D! I have had only very mild leg pain recently and after watching Dr

> > Oz I am convinced that it was the deficiency in this vitamin that caused it!

> > I just wanted to share that as I wish I had known it sooner, I have suffered

> > through several years of quite severe leg pain and never has my Dr suggested

> > that it might be something as simple as a vitamin deficiency!

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[Guest guest]

Oh, absolutely I would agree that living in Maine could leave you with fewer

resources to receive/convert Vitamin D and that it's seasonal. I used to live in

northern New Jersey and there was a good deal of SAD going on in the area each

and every year and I wonder about the correlation.

I currently live in Southern California and have for the past five years, and so

it's a true puzzle to me how I could possibly be Vitamin D deficient, but

someone pointed out to me recently that I almost always have sunscreen on. Isn't

it ironic that in trying to protect us from one illness, we may be developing

another?

I'm glad your fibro pain is less. Hugs and hang in there.

Mel

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OMG. Brilliant. I must go sell that idea to Hawaiian Tropic. Seriously, holy

cow, what a really great idea.

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> I have wonder why they don't add vitamin D to sun screen, can't be absorbed

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[Guest guest]

I've read that Vit. D has cancer preventing abilities and seeing how that

vitamin needs sunlight exposure to 'activate' (utilize?) it, using sunscreen,

which is a sunlight barrier, might be more a cause for skin cancers than

preventative? We humans evolved in direct sunlight so why is it now 'bad' for

us? (other than excessive = skin like leather)

Taking orally is a better way to be assured of dosage, absorbtion by skin would

be more variable.

Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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