Can your vitamin D levels continue to decline after a ‘loading dose’?

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In other words, once your vitamin D levels have been put back into the normal range following a loading dose, can they slowly decline again over the following years?

Or do you have your loading dose and then you’re fine for the rest of your life?

Yes you need to continue to take a decent supplement really. It won't keep you topped up if you are not getting or absorbing enough vit d.

How did you take this initial 'loading dose'?

Mine is always quite low. I'll take a sub-lingual supplement for a few months when I get a letter from the gp, and then stop - and it will sink back down again. Really I ought to just keep it up all year round, you'd think I'd learn

It can defo go low again after supplementing.

No you need to keep it up, once you have been ‘loaded’ up then you need to take a maintenance dose. The loading dose is just to get you back to normal levels - they soon drop again.

It was just over two years ago.

Ok, thank you all! I had a feeling my GP just didn't want to prescribe me any and it sounds like I was right.

He said that because I had had a loading dose two years ago, my amounts would still be high. He wasn't able to give me a blood test to check my levels it as apparently they don't allow them in this area any more. However I have the same symptoms as I did two years ago.

I'm now thinking about buying a ridiculous amount of OTC tablets and taking enough each day to make my own 'loading dose'.

I took Fultium 3200 capsules @AbsentmindedWoman

They are not prescribing things like this anymore and will tell you to buy it - but gp shouldn’t have been reluctant to do you a blood form! Esp if your symptomatic -if the gp is so sure it’s not your vit d levels then they need to identify why you are symptomatic of vitamin d deficiency! It could even be something else - no point them just guessing - you could have done that yourself