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My own experience getting a too-high result from supplementing 5K IU several times a week. When it came up, my doctor said I wasn't alone and that she's seeing
by Aurornis 10mo ago
My own experience getting a too-high result from supplementing 5K IU several times a week. When it came up, my doctor said I wasn't alone and that she's seeing a lot of people come back too high.
> I took me five years just to get to something close to the lowest end of normal.
Five years of supplementing to get up to 30ng/mL? Something is wrong. Could your supplements have not actually contained any real amount of Vitamin D? Certain malabsorption disorders also reduce Vitamin D absorption, for example.
- fragmede 9mo agoDon't forget your K2!
- seba_dos1 9mo agoFive years is unusually long, but your case is an outlier too. Usually it will take about 3 months to rise serum levels by ~30ng/mL on 5K IU daily, though there's plenty of individual variation of course. It's a low enough dose that if I had to choose between taking it blindly or not taking it at all if I was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed to get my levels tested, then I would do it blindly for a month or two without second thoughts.
- KellyCriterion 9mo agoCould also be a problem with the liver (e.g. too much alcohol), since if its stressed it cant convert the Vitamin D efficiently anymore unless the stress is gone.
- detourdog 9mo agoAlcohol has never been something I enjoyed. I probably don't drink alcohol more then once a year.