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Vitamin D

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I’ve taken vitamin D from September to May every year for the last 6. 

    I never get the tired, want-to-hibernate feeling that I used to get in late autumn and winter. 👍🏼
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've been taking a prescribed dose of 1000mg per day for 15 years to help with osteoporosis. I also started to take multi-vits several months ago as an insurance policy as I don't eat much green veg. Can't say I feel any different but then I'm naturally optimistic.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's worth having a blood test to check Vit D levels, esp if you have more melanin in your skin. My levels were in the basement beneath the basement and it's taken months of 125 mcg intake to raise them off the ground.

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Lizzie27 said:
    I've been taking a prescribed dose of 1000mg per day for 15 years to help with osteoporosis. I also started to take multi-vits several months ago as an insurance policy as I don't eat much green veg. Can't say I feel any different but then I'm naturally optimistic.

    Just to be clear - 1000 micrograms (mcg) not milligrams (mg) - I made this same mistake in another thread. It's all very confusing.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, be careful about doses, you could end up as a stalactite.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    punkdoc said:
    Yes, be careful about doses, you could end up as a stalactite.
     :o 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Ouch!
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just checked on the packet, it is indeed 1000mg - Accrete D3 One a Day chewable tablets. The GP warned me she was putting me on a high dosage. I have regular bone scans.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    mcg @Lizzie27
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Accrete D3 is

    Each chewable tablet contains

    1,000 mg calcium (as calcium carbonate) and 22 micrograms cholecalciferol (vitamin D3 equivalent to 880 IU as concentrate powder form).


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