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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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I should let rfrench answer this one, as he's been researching ultraviolet radiation recently. If I remember right, the upshot for pale people is well under an hour under noonday sun -- twenty minutes maybe? O'course, that doesn't say what latitude you're at.

Like you I am usually out only between my car and my house. It was different when I could hike and run and go backpacking (*sigh*).

D is also in a lot of fortified breakfast cereals. And fish. Lots of fish.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Good to know!

I may have to wander out a bit more :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go stand on the seashore until you catch a herring with your bare hands, then eat it, and whether you succeed in catching one or not you're probably all set. ;-)