Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
by DoreenMichele on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @07:26PM
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As someone who has worked on various deficiencies over the years, including vitamin D, I will suggest it means the dose you are taking is probably too high. When I had similar issues, reducing my sun exposure -- which was how I was improving my vitamin D status at the time -- resolved the headaches and vomiting that I was experiencing.
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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
by pure_simplicity on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:44AM
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Thanks for the response. I'm surprised you can even get too much D with sun exposure. The thing is: I used to take vitamin D supplements fairly regularly, but now I barely take any. I will go weeks without supplementing, but when I do, I get headaches. No increased urination though, which would happen if i had excess calcium, and no nausea/vomiting.
Last time, i tried 5000IU, but this came after weeks of not taking any D supplement, and I've not taken any since. My reasoning is: that would effectively make the average dose < 400 IU, so shouldn't give me any problems, yet it does. Maybe I'm getting more from the sun than i realize :/
Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
by DoreenMichele on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:50AM
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I'm surprised you can even get too much D with sun exposure.
I'm a special case. Trying to explain that is probably a can of worms.
shouldn't give me any problems, yet it does
There may be other factors there, which I could potentially speculate on. But A. It tends to be a can of worms when I start speculating like that and B. You didn't initially give enough info to really warrant such speculation. You only gave enough to make me feel like the safe bet was to comment on the dosage and leave it at that.
Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
by pure_simplicity on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:02AM
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I understand. Thank you :)