Re: More Vitamin D Studies of Interest.

>The Vitamin D Newsletter
March 14, 2010 This is a periodic newsletter from the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit trying to end the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency.
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Hi Chris,

I just want you to know that you are doing some good with your Vitamin D posting.

I'm not totally ignorant when it comes to health matters generally, but my Vitamin D knowledge was/is less than stellar; I'd just figured that my general vitamin had all those kinds of issues taken care of. But since you posted your post within the kidney discussion area, for the first time I made a potential connection to my kidney disease...

I then double-checked some information from my cardiologist that listed previous testing from my internist. It showed that I had a D-25 value of 6.6. Since it was just a repeat of some transferred data and not new testing by the cardiologist's lab itself, it didn't indicate whether that value was high or low and I barely had even noticed it when I orginally requested a copy of his testing on me and noticed that there was something about Vitamin D there from earlier work by another lab. The original Vitamin D testing was conducted prior to the time when it was standard at my internist's to provide a copy of testing results, so I hadn't even been aware that it had even been done until looking at the cardiologist's data.

I wish I'd known long ago that I could benefit from a sizable supplementation, more than what is contained within the Centrum Silver multiple vitamin I usually remember to take. I'd read about some Vitamin D concerns in the newspaper within approximately the last year but I figured that I must be doing okay, or at least not hugely down, or someone would know to check and tell me about it. (But to be fair to my internist, our discussions always go way over and other patients are waiting patiently. He probably meant to tell me but ran out of time completely.)

I've inconsistently taken small doses of my husband's small vitamin D supplement since the newspaper article came out, so hopefully my reading is higher than 6.6 today than it was a year ago. I am partially crippled so I can't easily get outside into the daylight, and anyway when I do get into direct sunlight I break out into hives and get a terrible headache. I should have been taking sizable doses of Vitamin D for _years_, I'd guess now in retrospect.

Anyway, thank you for posting. I'm going to get some larger doses of Vitamin D supplementation tomorrow. Maybe it might help my kidney disease? And my osteoporesis? And, who knows, it might help with multiple health issues overall, of which I have plenty that are serious.

I might be the only one posting a thank you note, but I seriously doubt that I'm the only one here with some strong THANK YOU! thinking going on. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Best wishes,
Mary Tweet