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!

[lionrose.7]

I want to go out in the sun, but having bits cut off is to painful.

Nearly 5.30 here so going down to the beach in a moment for a walk, will have a hat and zinc on 🙂

[katymatey*]

Wish I was there, I love the ocean.

[polksaladallie]

Trouble is that the damage was done in our childhood when nobody knew better.  The sun makes little difference when you are older, with the exception of the ultraviolet few hours, and only dills expose themselves to that.

[lionrose.7]

The beach was beautiful, should have gone for a swim, the water was warm.

[nicnacs_4u · Accepted solution]

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@katymatey* wrote:

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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.

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Thanks Katymatey my sp is atrocious at times..Last time I had the infusion it was free this time I think I will be out of pocket $500.00 but I suppose if it is required I have to cop it

[katymatey*]

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:

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@katymatey* wrote:

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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.

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Thanks Katymatey my sp is atrocious at times..Last time I had the infusion it was free this time I think I will be out of pocket $500.00 but I suppose if it is required I have to cop it

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I have been paying 500.00 per infusion, but I think I can now get them through the local base hospital. I haven't had one for a couple of years, so am probably due. I was going to Melbourne for them, but I need someone to drive me and it isn't fair to my kids who need to work.

[fourandsixpants]

to supanova who posted:

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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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supanova:  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? 

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Yes, supa 'something' has 'changed'. I have been very careful to get sunshine but not during extreme ultraviolet times. I in and out of the sun daily.....for years. Hanging out loads of washing, gardening, watering, swimming......walking to shops ev 3-4 days, sometimes ev day(10 mins each way for 11 years).

I cannot afford to buy fresh salmon steaks to eat.....would not even know where to buy wild salmon steaks (as pellet-fed, farmed ones not as high in Vitamin D) so I eat sardines regularly. I eat eggs......not sure what prob is causing this GLOBAL PANDEMIC OF SEVERE VITAMIN DEFICIENCY ACROSS MANY NATIONS

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes · Accepted solution]

Must get my levels checked then. Wouldn't have thought Vitamin D deficiency an issue living in Qld but you just never know!!

I have some Caltrate here (not mine)... should I just take it anyway being 52?

[fourandsixpants]

to lind:

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.

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I definitely think you are onto something here lind......our whole food chain has been affected.

The greedy and rich in this world are killing us off it seems. Not just humans either.

We need to put our health and all on this planet before the  '$'......or we will perish.

[lionrose.7]

I lived in QLD for 13 year, was always in the sun for at least 2 hours a day, cleaning the pool and doing gardening.

I had a Vit D test and it was low, had a cancer removed from my hand. doctor said stay out of the Sun and take vit D tabs.

very hard to stay out of the sun in QLD.