Through my site meter, I have been noticing that a lot of searches are coming through for people looking for information on Vitamin D & Vitamin D deficiency. Since this seems to be a popular topic, here are some links to the latest information on the role of Vitamin D and deficiency.
- Patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels, the study found.
Those with low vitamin D twice as likely to die
- The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policy.
Appropriate Supplementation Of Vitamin D
- Pain is the most common complaint leading patients to seek medical care and much of it is chronic, lasting 3 months or longer. According to an extensive review of clinical research in a new report from Pain Treatment Topics, inadequate vitamin D intake has been linked to a long list of chronic painful maladies, including bone and joint pain of various types, muscle pain, fibromyalgia syndrome, rheumatic disorders, osteoarthritis, and other complaints.
Aches? Pains? An Extra Dose Of Vitamin D May Provide Relief
- Men with low levels of vitamin D have an elevated risk for a heart attack, researchers said on Monday in the latest study to identify important possible health benefits from the “sunshine vitamin.”
Vitamin D may prevent heart attacks in men
- An article published in the June 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reports that men who have low levels of vitamin D are at a higher risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction).
Vitamin D May Help Prevent Heart Attacks
- People with a vitamin D deficiency are as much as twice as likely to die compared to people whose blood contains higher amounts of the so-called sunshine vitamin, Austrian researchers said on Monday.
Study shows more benefits of sunshine vitamin
- Vitamin D insufficiency is common in adults and is emerging in the world of pediatrics. A mild degree of vitamin D deficiency, also known as vitamin D insufficiency, causes rickets in children and can be treated with increased amount of nutritional vitamin D intake as well as increased sun exposure.
First Study To Examine Vitamin D Insufficiency In Pediatric Patients With Low Bone Density
- Adolescents can safely take, and may need, vitamin D doses that are up to 10 times what is generally recommended, a small study suggests.
Vitamin D recommendations for teens may be too low
- Softening of the skull bones in normal-looking babies might reflect vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, according to a new study. Furthermore, breast-feeding without vitamin D supplementation could prolong the deficiency, which might lead to a risk of serious health problems later in life, including type 1 diabetes and decreased bone density.
Vitamin D Deficiency May Be To Blame For Soft Bones In Baby’s Skull
- Nearly three quarters of patients seen at a rheumatology clinic, which focuses on diseases affecting the joints, muscles, bones, and tendons, have a vitamin D deficiency, researchers based in Ireland found.
Low vitamin D common with rheumatic diseases
- The news today that some 40 percent of infants and toddlers have vitamin D deficiency should make parents listen up and take action. Vitamin D is vital for healthy bone development, and breast-fed babies don’t get enough from their mother’s milk. They also aren’t producing enough from sunlightthe best source of vitamin D; pediatricians currently advise parents not to take kids into the sunny outdoors without first applying sunscreen or putting up the hood on the stroller.
Vitamin D Deficiency Common in Babies
- Susan Tellem learned she was vitamin D deficient by accident. “I went in for an allergy issue, and a blood test showed my vitamin D was at an all-time low,” says Tellem, 62, of Malibu, Calif.
Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency
- John Cannell, MD, founder of the Vitamin D Council is a tireless champion for Vitamin D research. He understands, like a growing number of scientists do, how devastating vitamin D deficiency is to our overall health. His website, vitamindcouncil.org is a virtual mega resource for vitamin D research, information on diseases related to deficiencies, the physiology of vitamin D, treatment for deficiencies and much much more.
- You are female, over 50, post-menopausal and you keep breaking bones. In fact, you need a hip or knee replacement. The diagnosis? Most likely, your problem will be blamed on osteoporosis.
Broken Bones Blamed on Osteoporosis When Vitamin D Deficiency Is the Culprit
- Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to disease, researchers said on Monday.
Widespread vitamin D deficiency poses risk-US study
- Vitamin D deficiency is common among women diagnosed with breast cancer, and it may raise the risk of cancer spread and death, researchers report. In a new study, women with vitamin D deficiency at the time of breast cancer diagnosis were 94% more likely to experience cancer spread and 73% more likely to die over the next 10 years, compared to women with adequate vitamin D levels.
Vitamin D Deficiency Worsens Breast Cancer?
Patients with active tuberculosis are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than the rest of the population. New research, presented at the annual Society for Endocrinology BES meeting in Harrogate, shows that the majority of patients with tuberculosis (TB) have low levels of vitamin D, leading to the possibility that vitamin D supplementation could reinforce current treatments or be used as a preventative measure against tuberculosis.
My biggest question is why is there such an increase in women with low or depleted vitamin D? All of the women I know with this deficiency include milk products in their diet and are in the sun with minimal or no sunscreen at least 12 hours a week. Yes, we all have health issues but is that a symptom or a by product?
Ps. I live in sunny California
my mother-in-law is suffering with what seems to be a muscle spasm (toes curl up) and pain in leg , shaking. she’s had scan’s of every sort, muscles tested, blood everything. some one told me the lack of vitamin D can make your hands do this . is it true. trying to find answers.
I went for my annual check up in which they did a blood draw. my cholesteral and thyriod are great. However, they said I was vitamin d deficient. I am confused in that I have no pains or joint issues, I drink at least a glass of whole milk a day and I am not afraid of the the sun. How would I find out if my body is having issue with absorbtion? Also I have put on 25 lb while monitoring my food intake and excercising 4 times a week ranging from 30 mins of brisk walking to cycling 7 mile to and from work and getting very discouraged. Could this be the source of the weight gain?
About six months or so ago I was diagnosed with a Vit. D deficiency. This was discovered when I fell and broke my shoulder almost a year ago and calcium levels were low, as well as phosphorus level was low. I was placed on D3 weekly for 5 weeks and now on oral Vit. D 400 IU 5 times a day and Calcium500mg/200 U Vitamin D three times a day.
If I am unable to get sunlight would the tanning beds be a good alternative.
Also can you get too much Vit. D and symptoms if so?
Should I need to keep taking Calcium? Being 56 male and I consider I am healthy seems like the Vit. D would correct the calcium and phos shortage alone?
Thanks,
Rocky
Tanning beds in my humble opinion are terrible in every way. I am not a doc and do not know if they provide vit D. to me, however, it is somewhat like sitting under the broiler. Tanning beds are very dangerous for skin damage. Melanoma is epidemic and deadly.
Sit in the sun for 15 minutes. If you cannot, take supplements. I would not ever suggest tanning beds to anyone who had more than 3 weeks to live.
Perhaps a visit to the dr. for bloodwork might help. I avoid doctors very very much but went in to total blood work for the first time in years and it was very interesting. Vit D is very low- I am a vegetarian. So he prescribed RX Vit. D. everything else was perfectomondo. At my age and being female the vit D issue is important for my bones. So why not do it by the tests and get the correct tx.?
So it is nice to know that and to act on what was not. Easy remedy. Just one little stick…
Good luck.
Diet cannot give you enough vitamin D. Even those living in the sun tend to keep covered up as we have all been brought up to think the sun is bad for us. Take a look at http://www.vitaminD3world.com for some good summaries of the data and they also have a good free newsletter
For alot of yrs now I have had some very weird spells. First of all I do have Fibromyalgia. Diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic in 1990. I have had colon cancer. 1998.. These spells I have are weird.. I start getting hot, dizzy, sweat terrible, body starts pounding and feels like my heart is racing. Sometimes I feel like I have passed out. Cardiologist ruled out heart problems,THANK HEAVENS, but he said it is probably depression.. NOT.. I do not think depression because after all these years . It is a mystery.. Any one have any experinces like this?? Would love some thoughts on this… Just got a call that I am vitamin D deficient.
It is up to you to decide if you are depressed, not Doctors, not your Mother, no one but you! If you are Vitamin D deficient, then you will experience feeling fatigued, and if you are fatigued, you will experience feeling low (depressed). Face it, feeling fatigued every day of your life, and weak, really gets to you. I know this because I sat home and cried when I had no health benefits to be seen and just this year, after suffering since last Spring, received a Dx of Vit D deficiency. I am feeling better after my second dose of Prescription Vitamin D. It takes Doctors a long time to think about Vitamin D deficiency, because they are too busy trying to get rich selling a bill of goods to you (that you are depressed), because it makes them rich, and then you get sicker and sicker, that makes them richer still! You have to protect yourself in this world. Never look to a Doctor like they are a God. Instead look to yourself, and ask yourself, “Is what I am being told feel true?” No one will BS you faster than a Doctor. Why? Because they can!
I was diagnosed with viamin d deficiency about 8 months ago. I went to the doctor because the lymph nodes in my neck have been swollen for almost a year on and off. My vitamin d level was 7 and my doctor told me that normal should be around 80. I have been taking the prescription d wich is 50,000 units a week for 12 weeks and my level has moved up to 30. The symptoms I have besides the swollen lymph nodes are fatigue and my hands have curled up on occasion and some joint pain.
Yes, I hear you! I have swollen lymph nodes beneath my arm pits. I think my deficiency went on far too long. I had them in by neck and when I was seen by Doctors, with the complaint of feeling fatigued, in 2013, they were clueless. I have no thanks to give any of them, really, because they have wasted allot of my time, time and time again, when I have had to pay to see them out of pocket, and I have learned that they think nothing of taking a poor person’s money, that does not have health insurance, and then doing nothing to help you.
Vitamin D is important, regular checking and taking will surely help fight deficiency.. thanks for the links.
callie……….I also was diagnosed with vitamind D deficiency. Mine was not as low as yours mine is 16 but my comment is you stated normal should be around 80 my Dr from Emory in Atlanta says normal is between 30 and 80. Yours seems very low. Glad you are feeling better.
Have had those same symptoms as janni.
Thought it was maybe related to Hot Flashes.
Went to get hormones checked and blood work showed a D deficiency.
My score was 16.2, and I was told it should be more like 70.
Taking 5000 iu of D3. Checking other hormone levels.
Interesting that I found this site. I have had weight gain, hair loss, fatigue and feeling achy for a few months now. Went to my doc thinking mono, thyroid,etc. She took blood and told me I have very low Vitamin D. Now taking 80,000 units a week for 8 wks, then down to 2,000 a day. I would have never thought that would have been the cause.
I have chronic paroxsysmal hemicrania and PTSD. I can no longer tolerate indomethecin which is the preferred treatment for CPH. For 6 months I have also be being investigated for severe pain in my right arm and erratic movement in my thumb. I just had bloodwork done which proved that I have a vit D count of 15. My internist is putting me on medication to reverse this deficiency. We’ll see where I am in 12 weeks. Thanks for your website. I have been afraid that I may be coming down with MS or something. That may still be the case but I’ll go for the hoof beats of the vitamin D problems causing everything.
I have been feeling lousy for a couple of months. Deep depression, exhausting fatique, blurred vision, mind fog, muscle and bone pain. Went to my doctor for my semi annual diabetic follow up and he took a Vitamin d 25 hydroxy test….my results came back at 11. Al other tests were good. My sugar was up to 112 which was hard to understand since I have been low carbing for about a month/ My A1C even came back from a 6.3 to a 5.3!
I just took my second dose of 50,000 IU of vitamin D which I am to take twice a week for 8 weeks then be retested. I am hoping that maybe this supplement will help me out. The fatique is the worst and I am having trouble walking up steps! I can’t believe a vitamin deficiency could put such a strain on a body!
I have been experiencing major fatigue headaches muscle and joint pain swollen glands tightness in my chest anxiety attacks hot flashes I feel disoriented and have short term memory loss. I have also had stomach pain and many other problems.
I have recently been told from my last set of blood work that i have very elevated cell count and a vitamin d defficency. My vitamin d count was 5.
I have started high dose 50,000 units vitamin d 2 times a week. I’m looking for any information of underlying causes for this .
Another good website about vitamin D to add to the list above is http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com
It has a very detailed section on safe and effective vitamin D supplementation, including calculating a person’s correct vitamin D3 dosage. Check out D-Estimator on the same site.
Are there lifestyle or diet issues involved with Vit D deficency? Particularly the consumption of wine, beer, carbonated beverages? Are there any other dietary taboos?
I have been testing low in Vit. deficiency My DR. can not explain why and is concerned.
I am 15 and i am always tired i know it’s from vitamin D, but whenever i walk from class to class at school my left big toe always hurts i thought it was from my shoes but when i got new ones i still have the same problem is that a symptom of arthrisis?
For years, I pushed through so many of the symptoms mentioned. I won’t go through the drama of how long it took for a diagnosis. I will say that Low Vitamin D will wreck your body and a fulfilling life. However, for women who have these symptoms, I also suggest you have your hormone levels checked. Wonky hormones and low Vitamin D often go hand in hand. For about 3 years now, I’ve been treated for both and my quality of life is greatly improved from what I refer to as my “foggy” years. Also, even if you register low in Vitamin D and get treated- it can and will often reoccur. I have been off and on prescription level Vitamin D and the symptoms come creeping back. I have finally found a doctor who intends to regulate my Vitamin D rather than to balance me out and send me on my way.