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.

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[tryslora]

Vitamin D deficiency can cause high BP? Interesting... didn't know that. I've been on 2000 whatevers of D for the past few months, because I don't drink milk and don't get a lot of sun and am on well water (apparently town water has D added to it, who knew?).

I'm actually hoping that that, plus my iron, might make my bp more stable. *fingers crossed* I'd love to get off at least one of the bp meds I'm on. Thanks for the info!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's only now being recognized, but yeah. Hypertension is mentioned briefly in the NIH's Vitamin D fact sheet, though sadly I don't have access to the source article they reference. I don't have access to the one this Reuters article is based on, either, nor the one Wikipedia refers to about peripheral artery disease.

Of course, whether supplementation helps is also up in the air. Some people are deficient because of various metabolic reasons, not low intake or low sunlight. Me, I don't eat any fish or seafood (ding!) and I avoid sunlight (ding!) so I suspect my problem is simply that I'm not getting much of it.