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Are you sure the blood sample was handled correctly? Vitamin D tests are cheap to do nowadays but most doctors have no idea that they have to immediately enclos

• adventured 12y ago
  It's a fair question. It was done by a hospital's lab by a dedicated lab worker, as a comprehensive, and then sent off to Labcorp (versus being done in a doctor's office by a nurse etc). So hopefully they knew what they were doing. Given the amount of Vitamin D you need to to get your levels up to a 30+ marker, and given most of the US population is Vitamin D deficient (and I get far less sun exposure than your average person) - it's probably a safe bet my D levels are very low. A 5 was a bit surprising, but it's no exaggeration that presently I'm probably as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one, sun exposure wise. My primary curiosity is whether my VitD levels have been single digits for ... a decade at this point. I think I'm fortunate that I was very active outside growing up, and that I got plenty of sun - as apparently having Vitamin D levels as a child akin to what I just tested at, is particularly dangerous.