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Post by healthy11 on Jun 28, 2012 21:47:30 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jun 11, 2014 7:49:31 GMT -5
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Post by zippity on Jul 2, 2014 1:42:05 GMT -5
I was diagnosed with this deficiency last year. The dr tried to push depression meds but I knew what depression felt like after the untimely deaths of family members. For me the deficiency showed up as a pall, a dull feeling, I was loving the career I was finally getting back into after years of helping my kids but having an apathetic interest once I sat down to do it. I found myself ambivalent about life. No pep and if I wasn't being told it was "menopause" it was "depression". Not true. I noticed after 3 weeks of prescribed levels of Vit D I felt better. It took a few months to rise up to feeling normal.
I was the one who insisted on being tested for Vit D deficiency. It is recommended I have 1000 IU since I completed 2 bouts of prescription sized doses of VIt D. Good call Healthy. It may be the "diagnosis of the day" one doctor waxed on about but it's a very real problem that I wonder if it might be misdiagnosed as just another depressed person.
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Post by healthy11 on Jul 2, 2014 7:40:13 GMT -5
Zippity, I'm glad you're feeling better! I was first "alerted" to the importance of Vitamin D by my ob/gyn...To make a long story short, I still see the same one who delivered my son 24 years ago...Over that time, we've become friends, as well as having a "Dr.- Patient relationship." (One of her own kids has ADHD/depression.) Anyway, she was personally diagnosed with M.S. some years ago, and said that she began investigating holistic and other non-traditional approaches to medical conditions, after her own doctors/peers were unable to offer much help. Now, she combines her "conventional medical training" with additional "non-traditional" information, and she was very persuasive about having all her patients get enough Vitamin D. (Since we live near Chicago, and don't get as much sunlight; especially in winter, she recommended 4,000-5,000 IU/day. I'm concerned about my son, who recently had surgery to insert a plate and 10 screws into his broken collar bone. His surgeon advised taking extra 30,000 IU/day Vitamin D with Calcium for these first few months, but I don't think my son is conscientious about taking it.)  |
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Post by healthy11 on Aug 6, 2014 19:40:23 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 2, 2014 8:23:49 GMT -5
medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-vitamin-d-diet-ease-effects.html#ajTabsThe above article starts off by saying, "If you don't want to dumb down with age, vitamin D may be the meal ticket....according to a study published online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The supplement appears to boost the machinery that helps recycle and repackage signaling chemicals that help neurons communicate with one another in a part of the brain that is central to memory and learning. "This process is like restocking shelves in grocery stores," said study co-author Nada Porter, a biomedical pharmacologist at the University of KentuckyCollege of Medicine. Neurons also are better able to receive and process those signals in ways that are connected with memory formation and retrieval, the study found." You can learn more by reading the full article at the the link above. On a related but less positive note, www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7277711/vitamin-d-test cautions that formal testing for vitamin D levels is probably not necessary in most otherwise healthy adults. If you're not symptomatic, Dr. Clifford Rosen summed up, "it might not be worthwhile to measure vitamin D, and tag you with the diagnosis of deficiency, when it’s not clear those levels make you deficient and you’re not at risk for disease."
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Post by healthy11 on Jan 5, 2015 10:54:46 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Sept 15, 2015 21:30:37 GMT -5
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