Severe VITAMIN D Deficiency....!!!!

[fourandsixpants]

....picked up by my new Dr. On supplements now, got to have a bone density test next time I see him.

I have been so careful to eat right, plenty of vit B rich foods and A and C and E etc. I regularly eat fresh fish and canned fish like sardines and eat egg yolks.BUT I think my problem was that I have been sun 'shy' for many years as have pale skin and tried to avoid sunburn/skin cancer etc.

Darker pigmented people and elderly need to stay in sun longer than fair skinned people to get the vit D.

According to Dr G I should be getting 6 mins in the sun ev day in summer and 28 minutes or so, ev day in winter.

Chemist girls told me that they are seeing a lot of women and young teen girls with same .....getting Vit D supplements. Was told by pathology girl that Vit D oil is better absorbed by our bodies than in capsule form but have caps as prescribed

Is this something recent that is being discovered in 'plague' proportions? Anyone know?

Apparently signs and symptoms are similar to depression and that thing called SAD.

Well I was certainly experiencing a lot of muscular pain and inner bone pains for a few years.

Thank goodness my new Dr has picked this up......could have been on my way to getting ruddy ricketts!

seriously!

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Getting old is no fun everything starts to wear out..

Too true........I liken myself to a finely-tuned precision machine that has gone off warranty, and the door handles are starting to break off.

[lloydslights]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Getting old is no fun everything starts to wear out..

Too true........I liken myself to a finely-tuned precision machine that has gone off warranty, and the door handles are starting to break off.

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This model has developed handles.

But the headlights have "dipped" significantly.

DEB

[armandammo]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Getting old is no fun everything starts to wear out..

Too true........I liken myself to a finely-tuned precision machine that has gone off warranty, and the door handles are starting to break off.

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Noticed it a few years ago, not being able to see quite as clearly way out yonder or read number plates. In the last few years my eyes have really gone down hill. Luckily, apart from a dodgie knee, everything else is OK but need to lose some weight to take the pressure off.

[***super_nova*** · Accepted solution]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

Very few foods naturally contain vitamin D, and foods that are fortified with vitamin D are often inadequate to satisfy either a child's or an adult's vitamin D requirement.

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That leaves the question:  how did the human race survived until now?  I have never been one for sunbaking, most of my life I worked long hour anyway, and if I had some outdoor activity, like riding my horse, walking my dogs, gardening or what ever, I would do it early in the morning; at daybreak before it gets too hot.  Yet my bones are in great shape and I only got diagnosed and started to take the capsules few years back.  So i mut have been able to get enougj of vitD most of my life.   It sounds to me as that something changed; maybe we are becoming incapable of processing the vitamin D available to us in our diet? 

[lind9650 · Accepted solution]

The whole problem with vitamin defficiencies in plague proportions is caused by genetically modified foods. These foods are injected with chemicals to prevent deseases and kill insects that attack the crops. Those chemicals we ingest and they invade our bodies, killing off the system that absorbs all the good things our body needs.

I too am on Vit. D supplements + calcium and a Vit. B12 injection every two month. My stomach can not absorb Vit.B12 from the food I am eating anymore. Vit.B12 defficiency can cause an awful lot of problems. I have lost one third of my bone density over the years. Nothing will repair it, only slowing the process down. But I am 78 years old, so have resigned myself to expect more problems over time.

When I was growing up we used to buy fruit and vegetables with a few grubs that had to be washed or cut out. Some misshapen vegies or fruit. Nobody really cared, and everything tasted great. Now we get perfect looking fruit and vegies with a longer shelf life, and nothing has any taste. I noticed that even onions don't taste like onions anymore. The same goes for bread and other grain products.

Cook your own, cook fresh they yell. Makes not much difference from processed food, only the fat and sugar content can be controlled cooking your own. We can not control the toxic chemicals in our food.

Now I keep telling my children to take care of their bodies and health, because whatever we eat or drink is full of toxic chemicals that harm our systems, but we have to eat and drink.

Anyone has a solution?

Erica

[lionrose.7]

this one time

Hi Tas, this winter they are going to do Efudix on my face so I will be hiding for about 6 weeks, not looking forward to it but they say it will be ok.

I have my own supply...........every 6 months I slather it on for a week.  If you have no pre-cancers, you don't end up blotchy.  I'm immunosuppressed, so every 3  months I go in and they look for things to cut off.  Last squamous cancer was on the back of my right hand, and has almost healed.  Bad news is that they found cancer cells on the base of the removed object, so they're going to schedule a Moh's surgery.

I am exactly the same, three Squamous so far, if they cut any more bits out of me I will be buried in a match box 🙂

I also have a autoimmune thing going on.

[polksaladallie]

Erica, you would remember the days when babies used to be put in the early morning sun to get their Vitamin D and keep their bottoms healthy.   5 minutes front and 5 minutes back.  No more than this was exposed.  I remember a line-up of nurses and babies out in the fresh air.  The babies loved it, and we got to chat.

[polksaladallie]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

Also thought I would mention here, for those interested that I was told by a health professional that manufacturers of sunscreens have been called upon by the medical profession to produce a sunscreen that continues to protect the skin from harmful rays yet allows Vitamin D component rays through.

We have obviously gone overboard with sun protection.

I know that most dangerous skin melanomas occur more frequently on parts of the body that are usually protected.

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That is true.  I have a relative of a relative who is part Aboriginal, very olive skin, who has had two removed from parts never exposed. It is a myth that fair-skinned people are the worst affected by any skin cancers.

[katymatey*]

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:

I am also on Vit d capsules and a calcium supplement..I see an endocrinologist  yearly and am due for another bone scan next month.Have already had one alapasta(sp)infusion that can stay in your system for a couple of years.Getting old is no fun everything starts to wear out..

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Had to google that one Nicnacs it is Aclasta. 

I have a bone scan due, but put it off when OH had his surgery.

I have biphosphonate infusions for osteogenesis imperfecta. I was born with that one though.

[aps1080]

Two things from reading that seems to have been highlighted.
One is tat w need to get some sun each day or week.
The other is we may take vit D but absorption is a bit of a problem.