Thank you Karen

I have been trying to keep up on these Vit D articles and wondering where this research and study would take us.

I'm normally skeptical when a study states something as simple as Vit D is going to make pain go away or get so much better I'll be running around here, but since this seemed easy to try.  When I went into my pharmacy last week and talked it over with my pharmacist.  He directed me that he saw no reason I could not try it with my current Rx's, but when I told him one of the studies said to take 2,000iu  per day, he said he could not reasonably suggest me taking that much. So he said I could take 1,000 perday and then see how it goes.  It's only been a week and I don't really think I've noticed anything different, but I'm gonna take it at this level until I hear otherwise that it would be safe & I'll give it atleast 30 days.  So we will see.

Thank you for all your hard work keeping us informed of whats going on in the world of pain.

Hugs

Betty

MY Pain Clinic Doctor did a very throrough blood work up on me & was shocked to see that I have nearly no vitamin D.  Doctors were pushing calcium on me for my osteoporosis, I'm not low on calcium at all - it was the vitamin D which allows absorption of various other nutrients that I was extremely deficient on. 

We've had so many skin cancer scares & using so much SPF protection that not enough vitamin D is getting in-unless you take suppliments.

My latest problem, after falling down about 3 stairs & landing on hard cement (remodelling basement area of house, no carpet), dislocating my big toe & ripping the toenail up & spraining my ankle was 1) I declined pain meds at the ER so I wouldn't look like a drug seeker & 2) Having Ehlers Danlos' hypermobility syndrome I had gently & slowly moved my big toe back to straight up instead of laying across all my other toes.  I hit my hip & was nervous but it is fine.  However, after the pain in my foot subsided (gel splint & crutches were too hard to use, I just hobbled in my slippers) I noticed the pain in my back & the noise I had heard coming from my back when I fell.  I saw my pain management doc a week later & she said I had several discs out of rotation & tried osteopathic manipulation on me but this was very painful.  She ordered a magnesium IV ( instead of the cocktail).  IVs don't seem to work on me though.  My veins are thin & roll a lot & my skin kept bubbling up.  After 8 pokes I said nevermind, this isn't going to work.  I had a migraine by then too so they gave me something for the migraine & I went home-nearly 3 hours later.  The point of me telling you all this is that yes, doctors are learning that basic vitamins & minerals do help specific things in our bodies.  If you take iron on an empty stomach with orange juice the orange juice helps your body absorb it quicker - food in the stomach makes it sort of just dissapate.  Magnesium is to relax muscles & help with migraines I'm told. I am also deficient on something called DHEA & several other hormones but I don't know yet what that is or how to get it into my system! haha.

I'm seeing a shift in thinking regarding fibro from first docs thinking we are nuts, to them thinking it's a rheumatoid thing, to them thinking it's a neurological thing or auto immune thing to them now thinking that it has a lot to do with our diet & nutrition habits.  Thank you Karen for bringing this up.