Vitamins, vitamins everywhere!

[cjsmith]

Why yes, I am a very pale woman who avoids sunlight because I burn so darn fast. I even work indoors all day. Why yes, I throw up when I eat fish and seafood. Why yes, I am mildly lactose-intolerant and do not drink a lot of milk.

I am now on 5000 IU of vitamin D per day, and after a couple of weeks, I'll want to maintain at 3000 IU/day.

Guess what vitamin D deficiency can cause. Guess. Remember all the agony I was going through with dietary sodium? Vitamin D deficiency can cause high blood pressure! Heh.

So now that's five little pills for D and one annoying injection of B12. There's hope that I can stop the B12 in a month or so... unless my feet spontaneously heal, in which case, bring on the needles.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Did anyone check out your bone calcium (it's a dexascan test) - I know they say calcium works better with vitamin d being taken and I wonder if the reverse is true?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

There are two bone-related tests the NYC doctor ordered, but I don't know whether either of them shows calcium levels. Would a bone density scan do that? That's one of them.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I think that's the test I'm thinking of - it's for osteporosis.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I admit that when I first saw the order for that test, I thought, "Dr. J may be looking for early menopause in a 40-year-old woman showing these symptoms -- but I'm a 40-year-old woman who has had these symptoms since she was 35." On the other hand, who knows? He could be right. So. I go be good patient. I go get scan.