Thanks! it wasn't Dr P who had prescribed the Vit D...it was another doctor a year before I ever saw Dr P. I agree about needing more than 1000 iu...I have been taking 2000 iu this last few months and probably could use more. I'm also taking some liquid cal/mag. I want to see if it has changed at all with this last testing. I'm always just borderline low...around 30 or so.
Hi Corinne lets hope your vit D levels have gone up, just to give you some idea of what kind of treatment is needed sometimes, I finally got a doctor who had a clue what they were doing and was prepared to read new information, they put me on 50,000 iu every week, for 12 weeks, and I still take 5000 iu a day when the sun isnt shinning, it has made an enormous, difference to my symptoms, fatigue greatly reduced, heart pain and palpitations gone, , can think a lot clearer, sleep better, muscle pain and twitching greatly reduced, asthma gone and havent had any colds or flue since, POTs symptoms have also gone.
I took large doses of magnesium and the same time, but until my magnesium levels had increased enough every time I took the big tablets of vit d, my heart pain etc got a bit worse for a couple of days, so I obviously needed the Mag as well. Taking larger doses of vit D needs to be done with a doctors supervision and as your on so many other medications there may be a risk of interactions, But if you can get Dr P or someone else to supervise treatment, in my experience getting Vit D levels up to the new recommended levels makes a massive difference. It seems to be something that a lot of Doctors have never really thought about, but if people get an illness that forces them to be inside a lot and not get much sun, their bound to get Vitamin D deficiency very quickly, which will only make things worse.
All the best