Vitamin d overdose treatment
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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?
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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.
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.
At your age, doctors should routinely test for a vitamin D deficiency as your skin is now converting less vitamin D from sunlight.
For the past 80 years it was believed that vitamin D3 was only important to the body for regulating calcium and protecting the bones. However hundreds, if not thousands, of studies now show this vitamin (technically a steroid hormone) plays a vital role in health.
Vitamin D deficiency seriously impacts 32 organs especially the heart and bones.
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.
I'm a 58 yo female. My MD has recently put me on Vitamin D treatment (50,000 IU once a week) -- is it okay for me to continue to take my regular vitamin supplement and the prescribed 1200 mg of calcium daily while taking the high vitamin D? I am also on HCTZ.
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