Vitamin d overdose
Common Questions and Answers about Vitamin d overdose
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The symptoms you have mentioned are suggesting excess of Vitamin D or calcium.The cut off level for toxicity of vitamin D level in blood differs according to different studies.The US endocrine society says that it is >150 ng/ml while Institute of medicine say it is >50 ng/ml.
In the presence of symptoms I consider this value of 94 as toxic level.
I would suggest you to get serum calcium,phosphorus and urinary calcium done.
After I my thryoid totally removed (along with one parathyroid) and had I 131 treatment in Sept of last year, the doctor put me on 5000 units of Vitamin D 2000mg of Vitamin C per day. Is this replacing something that the parathyroid or thyroid was producing. My wife says that 5000 units of Vit. D is considered an overdose.
Is anyone else doing this kind of thing?
I agree with the above posts.....my doc had me on 4,000IU when mine went low,,,I am on chemo right now and I am afraid the D might interfere with the meds so I bought a tanning bed for my home and this way I just have to sit under the light every other day and get 20,000IU real quick.
Authored by a team of researchers at the California-based non-profit Autoimmunity Research Foundation, the paper goes on to point out that molecular biologists have long known that the form of vitamin D derived from food and supplements, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-D), is a secosteroid rather than a vitamin. Like corticosteroid medications, vitamin D may provide short-term relief by lowering inflammation but may exacerbate disease symptoms over the long-term.
Take magnesium with your vitamin D supplement. The vitamin D council recommend a year round vitamin D serum level of between 50 - 80ng/mL or 125 - 200nmol/L.
Excerpt from "Know the Importance of Taking Enough Magnesium with Your Vitamin D:
"Most importantly, vitamin D requires and 'uses up' magnesium to convert from supplements or sun into its active form in the blood.
After a recent Vitamin D blood test , my doctor noticed that I had a severe Vitamin D deficiency (19 ng/dI … optimal 60-80) and prescribed me to take 12,000 IU’s of Vitamin D per day for 3 months and then drop to 4,000 per day.
I ordered a bottle of NSI Vitamin D-3 drops from Vitacost (cheaper than Carlsons and more servings... 900 2,000 IU servings for $9.99).
Hi I recently bought a 600mg calcium with vitamin D, becaue I was told by my dentist that I had decalcification shown on my teeth. And that was the reason I bought them. But now Im scared cause My older sister told me it is very bad to take too much calcium and now I've stopped taking them. I took two chewables which is 1200 mg for 5 days now im scared cause she told me that can damage my bones. Also her doctor told her that even 500mg is too much. I am an active female age 19.
A natural question to ask is how much of the vitamin D
But isn't 24 000 IU too much? I read everywhere that Vitamin D (from food) UL is 4000 IU!!!
...Next this concerns sunbathing:
1. I googled that sun has to be at least 50 degrees above horizon in order to get enough Vitamin D. Is this correct? I used this map to find exact position of the sun at time https://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_sun.php?lang=en
It says that after 3PM sun will be at 50.2 and lowering...
It's very hard to overdose on vitamin d, the recommended daily amount are actually significantly lower than what your body actually needs on a daily basis. In the extremely slim case scenario that you really overdosed- you'll know. At that point you should contact a medical professional.
It is where I learned how important it is to take magnesium in particular with vitamin D in order to get the most benefit from the vitamin D supplements. You should be able to find some archived newsletters on the site, too. Just Google "Vitamin D Council".
It is a good idea to build up to it, as the above post says. Some people, especially people with autoimmune issues, are particularly sensitive to vitamin D supplements.
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