Does anyone use sunbeds for vitamin d? I know they are bad for you but are sometimes used to help conditions, bad acne etc? I know you’ve to use a certain type but thought over the winter months worth examining. I take so much medication I really don’t want to take yet more? ThNks in advance
Why don’t you want to take more “medication”? Because you’re scared it will somehow be bad for you?
Not as bad as using sunbeds, I assure you. My view is if I’m already taking a load of stuff, just one or two extra pills a day is neither here nor there, and they do not have the health risks associated with sunbed use. Yes, it is possible to overdose on vitamin D with the ultra-high doses favoured by some here. However, it’s not very likely with the ordinary, non-import stuff sold at supermarkets, chemists, and health food shops.
Tina
Hi, I bought a D3 Lamp - expensive, about £300, but I’d prefer to make D3 naturally through my skin than pop pills. You can’t overdose that way. I use it for about 2 mins at a time at the moment. The idea is to build up a tolerance and stop just before you start to go red. Heather
Ignorant question here, but do proper SAD lamps help with vitamin D?
No. SAD lamps aren’t the same. D3 Lamps give off UVB rays. UVB = causes you to burn. UVA = causes you to age.
Thank you hcd. Do you have a link to a vitamin D3 lamp, as when I did a search all I got was SAD lamps?
You do know most MS people do not absorb or able to convert sun rays into vitamin d
even if you sat out in garden all day in the summer you would only get 30% of what a so called normal person would get.
All summer I sail or in garden in the sun and was taking 25ug vit d3 and when I got blood test done I was just on the lowest acceptable level and was told to stay on 5,000 iu
Also this way you don’t get skin cancer or premature wrinkles
Hobs you are a fountain of knowledge So would that be why I never burn my skin is very pale and should burn but the sun just misses me totally
Oh not really I just have no life and read way to much study info when I have to do a MS branch newsletter.
With skin and tanning I am full off freckles and tan easily and never burn, I can spend 2 hours on the water sailing in July I won’t burn
and still suffer from low vit d levels
The vitamin d is not actually a vitamin but a hormone so I really don’t have a problem swallowing a pill a bit like cod liver oil capsules rather do that than munch on cod liver.
All the radiation the sun throws out not only can tan a skin but damage the cells and deep down so I still lube up with factor 20 and it blocks out lots of the harmful radiation and stops it penerating deep under the skin.
Also seeing as I be on Gilenya soon I don’t want to add to the skin cancer risk.
I got mine off Amazon. It’s a Dermfix 3000 UV-B Lamp for Vitamin D.
If you take D3 supplements, you have to remember to take other supplements as well, eg. calcium and magnesium, in the correct amounts as they all work in sync. When you get D3 from the sun/sunbed/lamp, your body stops making it when it’s got enough. You don’t have to take the other complimentary supplements as your body sorts it automatically. With sunbeds/lamps, you just use them to the point before you start to go red. That’s why it’s important to start with exposure for just a few seconds and build up gradually. You’re not using it to get a tan or burnt! I never get a tan in the sun. I’m one of those people who goes pink, then red, then burnt. That’s why I treat my D3 Lamp with a lot of respect. Two minutes 2-3 times a week is enough at the moment. Heather