Are you adjusting your vitamin D intake to account for the Fall/Winter months of limited sunlight exposure?

[GreenMachineX]

I had a snack at work today and has a very bad reaction, turns out it had a lot of calcium in it. Instant heart arrhythmia, mental confusion, nausea and fatigue. I had to go home early.

I did have to start adding vitamin D back into my diet because all the symptoms came back the last 3-4 days.

I can however eat mushrooms without much issue, only has 1mg calcium compared to 336mg in the snack.

What are your low D symptoms?

 

[Systemlord]

What are your low D symptoms?

My GI goes crazy when I eat something, bloating in the stomach, skin on my back burns and turns red and is dry. I lose muscle strength and energy as well.

These are the symptoms I encountered for 5-6 months before getting the low vitamin D result.

There were days when the symptoms seem to vanish, looking back those days I was either drinking milk/protein shakes, eating a pound of bacon, or other foods with vitamin D.

 

[GreenMachineX]

My GI goes crazy when I eat something, bloating in the stomach, skin on my back burns and turns red and is dry. I lose muscle strength and energy as well.

These are the symptoms I encountered for 5-6 months before getting the low vitamin D result.

There were days when the symptoms seem to vanish, looking back those days I was either drinking milk/protein shakes, eating a pound of bacon, or other foods with vitamin D.

Interesting. I'm dealing with some bizarre side effects and looking at my protein shakes as a potential cause, or excess vitamin C...

 

[Systemlord]

excess vitamin C...

I've had that before when I started supplementing iron glycinate for iron deficiency, but little did I know it had 110 mg vitamin C mixed in to aid absorption and started having problems after 4 weeks.

I stopped the iron glycinate and symptoms started declining and at the same time another set of symptoms returning. The iron glycinate had both iron and vitamin C deficiency and was very sensitive to the latter.

I'm dealing with some bizarre side effects

What are your symptoms?

 

[GreenMachineX]

I've had that before when I started supplementing iron glycinate for iron deficiency, but little did I know it had 110 mg vitamin C mixed in to aid absorption and started having problems after 4 weeks.

I stopped the iron glycinate and symptoms started declining and at the same time another set of symptoms returning. The iron glycinate had both iron and vitamin C deficiency and was very sensitive to the latter.


What are your symptoms?

Muscle cramping feeling (never goes full on cramp though), intermittent muscle weakness, fatigue and overstimulation, tinnitus-like sensation but also occasional real tinnitus (can't describe the former any better except that it's constant and used to only happen after a night of no sleep), mild nausea and headache that starts around 3pm.

 

[Systemlord]

occasional real tinnitus

Vitamin C affects the skin and soft tissue.

All the other symptoms sounds like a vitamin C problem.

used to only happen after a night of no sleep

As we become more and more deficient is stuff, it starts to affect us in the evening at first, then midday and then all the time.

 

[Systemlord]

I seem very sensitive to vitamin D supplements and can't even handle 200iu D3 and don't have problems when consuming food with vitamin D, only the calcium causes problems do to over supplementation of vitamin D which raised my calcium levels to where I can't even drink, eat anything with calcium.

Does anyone know what food contains high levels of vitamin D and little to no calcium?

 

[GreenMachineX]

I seem very sensitive to vitamin D supplements and can't even handle 200iu D3 and don't have problems when consuming food with vitamin D, only the calcium causes problems do to over supplementation of vitamin D which raised my calcium levels to where I can't even drink, eat anything with calcium.

You know you better than anyone, but honestly that doesn't sound right...

 

[Systemlord]

You know you better than anyone, but honestly that doesn't sound right...

The second week of supplementing vitamin D I had these symptoms shortly after taking it which fooled me into taking more.

Yesterday I took 400 iu, today I took 200 iu and symptoms aren't nearly as bad.

 

[Systemlord]

I have been supplenating 6400 IU for about 1 month and the last 2 weeks I had been forced to reduce to 4800 IU due to the symptoms that keep creeping up on me, and now I'm starting to urinate a lot again, headaches, irregular heart beat, fatigue, bone pain, GI pain, hives and stinging sensation in skin.

All symptoms are subsiding and almost nonexistent after not taking any vitamin D this morning.

It would seem I can't handle vitamin D 40>. Two weeks ago I was at 39, and what a big difference it made in how I feel mentally, and physically compared to 33.

 

[Systemlord]

Vitamin D for Preventing Fractures in Low-Risk Adults

Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, discusses the data from the VITAL study on using supplemental vitamin D to prevent bone fractures.

www.excelmale.com

 

[Systemlord]

Did you know vitamin D levels affects estrogen levels?

Menopausal women with low vitamin D has the most intense hot flashes. I get hot flashes any lower than 800 IU even though my TRT dosage is more than appropriate and have low appetite.

My appetite is normal when taking 1000 IU.