Hi i have my bloods checked every year. my levels are normal. My gp has never told me to take more. I hate taking meds, so i make sure my food intake includes these vitamins as much as possible. there is no proof as yet it helps. I have read you should not exceed more then 4000 IU of the stuff as it can be harmful. I read so many people pumping themselves up with all these things, and just wonder how safe it all is really.
I was born in a hot country, and in my early years always lived in hot sunny countries, and yet i still got MS. People living in countries with long days of sunshine still get MS. The odd thing is the one thing which could help us also makes us sick, as i cant sit in the heat of the sun now as it wipes me out.
I think anyone embarking on extra vitimins should be checked first and monitored by a doctor, as i worry it could do harm.
When I recently asked my consultant if he thought there was any point in taking D3 he said all his family take it, including his 3 kids.
He also mentioned that Australia use to have one of the lowest MS rates in the world, then about 20 years ago the skin cancer rate in Australia was reaching very high levels, so many people started to cover up from the sun, use high level sun factor and basically hid away from the sun more than they used to.
Apparently, according to my consultant, the number of skin cancer cases has dropped, but the number of MS cases has now risen .
Coincidence, maybe , maybe not ?
I can clearly remember him telling me on the day he told me I had MS.
āIf I were sitting in that chair being told I had MS I would be taking the highest dose possible of D3 to get my levels up and possibly beyond African levelsā
Heās obviously a strong believer that theres a link between D3 and MS.
I do agree though with Crazy Chick that you need to be monitored, as it can lead to calcium in tissue .
I had a kidney stone back last year, and the urologist consultant was fairly adamant that the high levels of D3 that I take were a possible factor in developing the stone.
I was told 30 yearās ago that people in the Southern Hemisphere were less likely to develop MS and that those who did were likely to have grown up further north. So how long have they known this? My GP admitted that she doesnāt normally test Vitamin D levels routinely, but she should for people with disabilities as they are often more housebound also it wasnāt her idea to prescribe it for me it was my neurologist along with statins as thereās no other medication for SPMS (excluding the recent news about metformin) but nobody mentioned monitoring my vitamin D levels, and I was very surprised to get a text from my GPS telling me to book a blood test to check my vitamin D. I was stunned that after 3 years of religiously taking it with food that my results came back showing low levels of vitamin D, I would have been less surprised if they were showing levels were very high. Iām still waiting on an appointment to see an MS nurse, I need to run it all past a specialist.
I am an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner! New graduate, newly licensed, seeking a new job only to realize after being in remission for 13 yrs. yep, itās back full circle!! I have no idea what to do! I havenāt been on treatment for 13 yrs!! when i was, i took copaxone injections, being a RN now ARNP-i gave my own injections, my neurologist took me off, 3 yrs ago. now i simply had a hand cramp that i shared with her and she wants to get the MRI, everything! so who in the world is going to gvie me a job now with that diagnosis?
Think the ideas are now changing i found this article very interesting. vitimin d and epstein barr virus are certainly becoming two of the most popular reason for developing MS. oddly enough it was found i had at one point EBV from a test i had and i had another virus which I had no idea i had.