Vitamin D deficiency. DS and possibly me too.

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Has anyone been diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency?

I've posted about my son's fatigue and it went on for weeks that he was sleeping far too much and had headaches/really not himself. He ended up in hospital and they did so many tests which nearly everything came back fine. The final result came back yesterday and DS has a Vitamin D deficiency and the GP has written on the letter that family should be tested too.

Has anyone dealt with this? DS has a prescription for drops and I was told this is fairly normal at this time of year as we don't see a lot of sun until now.

Aside from getting him outside and using the drops, is there anything else I should be doing?

Hi Davina mine are spaced as 2 x 20 000 tablets a week, so I assumed I would space them out. Then after 6 weeks down to 800 a day for 3 months.

I don't know what my starting level is, this is my issue with being phoned by the office woman, all I know is I am down and it is the cause of my joint pain. I have loads of other questions about my multi vitamin, which stops me being a crazy woman during put time, the anti inflammatories she perscribed me before. What does the fact I have got joint pain mean etc.....

I know what you mean - some people are not exactly forthcoming with sharing medical details with the person they actual concern! I only found out as I specifically asked when the doctor rang with the results (which I only thought to do after reading some of the threads on here!). With hindsight though, I wished I asked what my levels were for the other tests that were done at the same time. He just said they were all normal except vitamin d.

He also didn't actually gave me any instructions on how to take them, just "I'll write you a prescription for this afternoon" Mine says 'Take 2 capsules weekly', so I assumed these would be taken together. Also I got no advice on maintenance, whether I'd need to go back or anything. Just the prescription. It's no wonder the general public don't know much about it! Also, interestingly, I was chatting to my best friend who had her 2nd baby 2 months after mine (same NHS trust), and she was told to supplement her LG with vitamin D - she said they were quite pushy with her. They never mentioned it once to me for my LG!!

Maybe it would be worth you making an appointment to go in and talk to someone about your levels, multivitamin etc? I'm going to go back in a month if I'm no better. And I'm not rushing back to work either. I need to be very much on the mend before I can attempt that (long commute and stressful job), so I'm expecting another potential 4-6 weeks minimum off, unless by some miracle I can cheat the recovery time a bit It's driving me crackers but for once I need to not muddle through, go back too early and make things worse and harder to deal with. Have to say I'm not looking forward to the conversation with my boss though. I have a feeling that she'll think it's a case of popping a few pills and I'll be back to normal 😁

DD was way under for vit D. Her endocrinologist put her on 40,000 once a week for 12 weeks. Levels normal now and she's having a maintenance dose of 5000pw

How old is your DD BeauGlacons? Glad her levels are back to normal now 😊