Hi,
Thanks for all the replies!
I have to clarify some things first. In my history of ME, many years I could not tolerate the sun at all, giving me fever, infectious feeling, complete bedridden. But the last years I have thought I tolerated the sun and have been catching as much sun as possible in the summer. And buy the way, I have always loved the sun and sun bathing. However, every spring, I got worse of my symptoms, and in the middle of the summer sometimes it would be better. I now can see that it was when I started sunbathing, my symptoms got worse. And this year I felt it right away, and could not tolerate the sun again. I get easily tanned, so I guess my body is protecting me from getting too much vitamin D.
This year I also discovered it was the sunlight through the eyes that was the biggest problem, as I one day was laying in the shadow of a big parasol but forgot my sunglasses. After that I got really, really sick. And I thought to read more about the Marshall Protocol. And when I look back I can see how sunlight has made me worse.
For those of you familiar with the Marshall protocol, you’ll know that vitamin D for many people makes them feel better, but in fact it is making them worse. Vitamin D is a steroid hormone, and taking steroids will make you feel better for a while, but is actually doing damage to your immune system, by weakening it. So that could be the case when you feel better after sun or vitamin D.
Since I have had low vitamin D (25-OH-D) for many years, I have tried all kinds of vitamin D supplements (oil drops, pill, transdermal cream, and the UVB-lamp) which of all made me bedridden and much worse.
I was wondering if other people also got this sick from vitamin D (and I mean vitamin D and not sunlight), since it is written more about feeling better from vitamin D, even if it does do harm. I can literary feel the harm…
I also do feel much better during the dry, warm summer months. That is from the climate. Humidity and bad weather makes me sick and achy too.
It is for sure that sunbathing gives you much, much more vitamin D than any pill can give, and that is in just 10-15 minutes. It is this way nature intended us to get vitamin D (which is actually not a vitamin at all, but a hormone).