Vitamin D deficiency

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It sounds innocuous enough, but I have just been found to be lacking (after 18 months of feeling as if I am at deaths door)

Can anyone tell me how it affected them, please?
Also, does the loading dose literally diminish the problems until I'm finally back to full health again?

Random pins and needles that were really painful
Bald patch

If you are taking vitamin d you must take vitamin K2 alongside it. It's really important because without k2 you can get calcium deposits in your soft tissues. I'd think this is especially important if taking high doses of d

My symptoms were:
Tiredness and fatigue - I never felt rested however long I sleep
Hair loss
Joint pain in my ankles
Foot pain (one of my small toes broke)
Bone pain especially in my hips and back
Dry skin
Acne
Brittle flaky nails with ridges some of which split half in the nail bed
Tingling especially in hands and fingers
Delayed healing of cuts and wounds
Couldn't walk properly

I have friends and acquaintances who I later pointed out they were probably deficient and when they eventually convinced a GP to test them they were.

Like me a couple had to change GP practice to get treated properly. There as others when I gave them detailed information to show their GP had receptive GPs who checked it and acted immediately.

The ones who were on the lower range of insufficiency range had symptoms that were mainly hair loss in woman plus fatigue, tiredness, skin issues, muscle pain and bone pain in legs and/or hips.

The ones who were severely deficient like me had similar symptoms to me. Though one lady broke a finger rather than a toe.

Some of them had other conditions like me while others just had a vitamin D deficiency.

Oh and virtually everyone of us were told that once were were sufficient we have to pay yearly to do our own vitamin D tests. I do know a couple who get it on the NHS but they have other horrible conditions e.g. rare cancer.

Our maintenance doses are all different so mine is as high as GarethBalesManBun This caused issues when I was pregnant as my booking midwife refused to believe that I was taking that dose on instructions of a GP due to previous severe deficiency. (I ended up seeing another community midwife in a different area of my borough after that.)

This is all fascinating to me, never having given any thought to it before being tested.
It has such an impact!