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vitamin d deficiency/ tingling and muscle twitching

Hi all,
Does anyone know vitamin d deficiency can cause muscle twitching and tingling?
As I know, low calcium can cause muscle spasm, but my calcium and all other vitamins minerals are normal, except vitamin d is low.
Anybody has a same symtoms like me....????

Thanks
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Hello. I'm in the same boat. for the past 6 months, I've experienced twitching,Burning sensation under skin, muscle spasm, and perceived muscle weakness. I've seen several nueros and doctors. Got a blood test ran, and my Vitamin D was at 16.8 L which is very low, considering the normal range is 30.0-100.0.. I haven't started taking anything yet. My obvious fear was ALS or MS. Could low Vitamin D cause my problems. I can feel the twitching everywhere, including my Face and tongue...
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Yes, it could cause every bit of what you're going thru., I even got to the point of having a hard time walking.  I am on a prescription of vitamin D2 50,000 units 2x week
Did you ever find out what was causing your symptoms.  My symptoms are exactly as yours...and my vitamin D was 14.4.  Im scared to death of als or any mnd.  
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Thanks for sharing your stories. I am a 32 year old male, and for the past month I have been having this tingling, pins and needle sensation in my legs. This has spread to other parts of my body, and is on-off going. My muscles also seem weak. My doctor ran bloodtests and all was normal, except vitmamin D. He thinks that my symptoms could be stress, or perhaps MS. I am so freaked about MS. I really can´t imagine having to have a chronic disease.. I have a appointment with a neurologist tomorrow, and I hope that MS can be ruled out. I really hope so. I hope that it is just the vitamin D deficiancy that causes my symtoms, and that with vitamin pills, my symptoms will go away. To be honest, I don´t mind constant tingling for the rest of my life, it is just means I don´t have MS. I would rather have what I have now, and not have MS, as I don´t know how that will affect me in life. I´ll update you guys on how it goes.
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HI GO OVER AND READ MY PROFILE INFO. U AND WELL AS OTHERS MAY FIND VERY INTERESTING,ABOUT WHAT RESEARCHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT HOW MANY AMERICANS ARE MISDIAGNOSED WITH THE VIT.D DIFICIENCY.AND SUNLIGHT BEING THE VERY!!!!BEST WAY TO GET THAT D. HOPE U FEEL BETTER SOON.!!
Did you ever get any answers?? i'm having the same problem
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Hello everyone. For the past couple of years I've had piriformis syndrome(pain and tingling in the butttocks down to the feet). I feel it more so on my left side. I'm very athletic and active in my job. I tent to lift things but nothing too streneous. At times I sprain my wrist but it heals quickly. I got tested this year for all my vitamin levels and I was slightly vitamin d deficient. 27 and normal range for my lab is 30 and above). I was prescribed by my doctor to take 50,000 IU of vitamin d for 8 weeks. I'm on my 7th week and apparently my symptoms came back. I was wondering if anyone experienced the same issue. Perhaps I strained myself without realizing or the body is still trying to adjust. I pray these symptoms go away. I was doing great for the past 6 weeks while on vitamin d and now it has come back. :(
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Hello, it just seems there is a whole lot of symptoms and questions but very little answers and responses! I wish people would come back with updates! There was one person in here who touched on the possible answer for many of you and no one responded to them. Primary hyperparathyroidism! I NEVER heard of it until a few weeks ago when I had my bone scan and to my shock I had osteoporosis at only 61! Im a very fit active person. This was not what I expected. Then they went to do a blood calcium test. It came back 10.7 which by the lab stats was high but still normal...well being the nosy busy body I am I googled 10.7 calcium and much to my surprise, all signs pointed to hyperparathyroidsim which causes low Vitamin D, elevated calcium and a bunch of nasty symptoms that I am reading above in nearly every post! This disease is most common in post menopausal women but it can affect EVERYONE! Get you calcium checked! The surgery is supposed to be the cure! I am going to schedule mine asap!
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What type of surgery are you getting?
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Symptoms... tingling in legs and feet. Twitching in various places. Fatigue. Ive had MRI of brain and neck but no signs of ms or any other major autoimmune disease. Doc gave me a blood test last week and the only thing that came back low was vitamin d at 19. Thinking that is the culprit but this constant tingling in legs and feet is driving me nuts! Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Hi everyone!

I too have gotten tingling in legs and feet, especially my left foot, and pretty much all over sometimes. This started in May, was bad for a week then decreased. Since then I've had tingling, it's ausgust now, but no where near the first time it happened. Well I got my vit D levels checked at a physical, came back with 29.7. It is recommended to be over 30, so I was still low. I now take 1000iu once a day daily, for about a week, and already feel better! I still feel tingling but very slight. And this drastically changed once I took the supplements.so he said I think vit D can cause tingling. Hope this helps!
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Hello. I have the exact problem with left leg tingling. It feels as if its kinda numb. Do you feel pain in Arms and head? Or tingling in both or one of your arms? And do you feel dizzy and lightheaded most of the time? Cuz I do and I am really scared something is happening to me.. I have 7.51 Vitamin deficiency..
I feel the tingling in my feet.. not legs
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I have been having all these symptoms for almost a year now plus my feet burns during shower. I bought the Now D3 of 5000IU with the K2 and within a week or 2 of taking this I started getting heart palpitation, I stopped taking these and no more heart palpitation. At least my problem is minus one. All I get whenever I go to the hospital is some pain relief and referral to see a neurologist. Called their office and they don't take my insurance. How is one suppose to pay for such service which I am not sure would even be the solution as many who have visited still has all the symptoms. I hope we find answers soon
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Hi also have vitamin d deficiency an recently experienced tingling in my lips an chin my vitamin levels were extremely low 7 reading all these comments seeing what the normal levels are is stressfull any ideas
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I have vitamin d deficiency  but I had a reaction a bad reaction to the shots after 3 of them,After 2 really but had to throw a fit and prove to the doctor that it was the shots so after they shot me last time I stayed there and when reaction started I went to desk and nurse was called I was taken to ER
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All of the symptoms that everyone described is what I experienced and I'm on my 11th of 12 week prescription of Vitamin D.  I feel a little better, but not fully.  I'm barely at the minimum range of 30.  I had seen a rheumatologist, neurologist, another neurologist that specializes in MS, made several visits to urgent care, took multiple blood tests, CAT Scan, MRI, made several other doctor's visits, on the phone many nights with the advise nurse,  chiropractor (helps the most), get massages (helped relax the muscle tension), and acupuncture (helped somewhat with pain).  It has dug a hole in my pocket book, but the pain was initially unbearable.  Vitamin D deficient appears to be the culprit, although none of the doctors can really pinpoint the underlying cause of all the symptoms.  All my problems started when diagnosed with the deficiency.  It put in perspective why I was having so many digestive problems.  Every time my muscles acted up it would trigger stomach problems.  I was diagnosed with IBS because of it.  Had a stomach infection that took four treatments to get rid of and it depleted my Vitamin D.  I also was diagnosed with paresthesia and experienced numbness branching out as far as my gum line.  There were days I could not eat but one small meal a day because the inflammation  was too bad and my blood pressure would get high.  I was told it would take a long time to get better.
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Hello. I'm in the same boat. for the past 6 months, I've experienced twitching,Burning sensation under skin, muscle spasm, and perceived muscle weakness. I've seen several nueros and doctors. Got a blood test ran, and my Vitamin D was at 16.8 L which is very low, considering the normal range is 30.0-100.0.. I haven't started taking anything yet. My obvious fear was ALS or MS. Could low Vitamin D cause my problems. I can feel the twitching everywhere, including my Face and tongue...
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Hi Marcos,
This is Rajesh from India. I also have the same problem using Vit D since 3 months. But with same like your complaint. Can you please update what happened next after your consultation with doctor.
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I'm on my second week of 50,000 vitamin D twice a week after finding my level to be 9.  I've had pretty significant fatigue for a while, but nothing else.  But now all of a sudden I am having tingling in both of my feet.  Is this a normal side effect to the high dose?  I did have this same thing happen a couple of years ago when I tried the high dose vitamin D and it went away after stopping it (not taking the full course of it).  I just don't see this side effect listed anywhere.  I just want to get my vitamin D level back to where it should be!  Thanks.
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Did you ever find out if this was normal with the tingling?  Im going thru the same thing now.  I am  into my 3rd week on 50,000 units 2x week now
Hi..i got the tingling after one dose of 5000iu vitamin d.
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I have been experiencing tingling, numbness for the last two years. I thought it was just poor blood circulation so I would just go and exercise and eventually it would go away. Plus it gave me a good excuse to exercise anyway due to me wanting to lose weight. However, in the back of my mind I new something was not right so eventually after all that time I went to see a doctor and got a physical.  Blood test were ran but everything was ok. I was so happy but still my symptoms was still there. So it was not to a couple of weeks ago when I went to go see a new doctor which this was a primary doctor she ordered me to take what is called a Boston heart diagnostics. I never had this test done before but I recommend it to every human being on this planet. Its like you taking your car in for a diagnostic test but you are getting it for your entire body and they give you your own personal book of everything that is going right or wrong with your body. This test alone will prevent illness, disease, and even death.  A lot of doctors for some reason don't even think to run this particular test. This test enabled me to get down to the problem at hand which was vitamin d, 25-oh to be exact. My level was a 22 which a normal range should be between 30-100 this is way to low and considered abnormal.  The doctor immediately gave me a prescription for vitamin D 50,000 units. I take one green soft gel once a week for 4 weeks.  What is really crazy is that all the symptoms I was having,  tingling, numbness, fatigue, tiredness, poor energy was due to the fact of something so simple as vitamin D. Wow I could have been cured a long time ago.. I can't express how important it is to see a  doctor. If this is not cured, it can cause at least 17 different types of cancer, ms, Lyme disease,  and all other illnesses including depression. If any doctor is reading this please start checking your patients for this because it could very well become an epedimic if it has not already. Thanks everyone for sharing.
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hey glad to hear u hopefully have found a cure for urself,and hopefully feeling better now. but I have done some digging online about this vit.d deficiency,keep doing wat ur doc. says,but researches have done extensive studies on vit. d deficiency and are saying the VERY BEST WAY TO MAKE SURE UR GETTING THE AMOUNT OF VIT. D REQUIRED IS SUNLIGHT!!!SUNLIGHT!! SUNLIGHT!!! GET OUTDOORS IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT IF POSSIBLE.THEY SAY NO SUNSCREEN IS BEST.AND A CLOUDY DAY UR NOT GETTING AS MUCH VIT D AS JUST A SUNNY DAY.IF I FIND THE LINK I WILL POST.I BELIEV EVERYONE WILL B SURPRISED WHAT RESEARCHERS ARE FINDING OUT ABOUT ALL THESE TERRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF VIT. D DEFIENCYS. NOW MAYBE MY SWEET SPECIAL NEEDS DAUGHTER WILL GET BETTER TO.TO SAY SHE HAS BEEN SICK W ALL THE SAME SYMPTOMS AS EVERYBODY ON HERE,IS A MILD STATEMENT, SHE HAS AND IS STILL LITERALLY BEING TORTURED BY HER OWN BODY!!,BUT NEXT SUNNY DAY MOMMY WILL HAV THAT SWEET BABY OUTSIDE . WOULD LOVE T NO HOW EVERYBODYS DOING THAT HAV THE VIT.D DEFICIENCY,AND HAVE STARTED TAKING THE D VIT..I DID READ THAT WE SHOULD BE AT AROUND 70 ON A SCALE OF 1-100 AND ANYTHING OVER THAT IS CONSIDERED OPTIMAL!!!OR GREAT!! GOOD-LUCK TO ALL OF U!!:) AND THANKS FOR SHARING.GONNA RESEARCH THAT BOSTON HEART TEST 2,VERY INTERESTING!!
Could you Pls send that gel name that you have used for ur problem?since I have similar symptoms and NY vitamin d was 18.82 send I to ***@****, thanks your help
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So do you have MS AND Vitamin D def? OR were you misdiagnosed with MS?  I was diagnosed with MS by the radiologist who read the MRI but the neurologist said I didn't have MS, the white spots on the MRI is due to my high blood pressure and diabetes. I am vitamin d def....level was 10.7
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WOW!!  10.7 RESEARCHERS ARE SAYING VIT.D SHOULD BE AROUND 70 BUT ANYTHING OVER IS IDEAL!! HOPE U FEEL BETTER SOON!
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Hi im a 16 year old female who has also got a vitamin d deficiency at level 16 which is low and is not normal I am feeling burning,stinging, twitching, and tingling sensations under my skin throughout my entire body fror 4 weeks now its insane I feel like im going to loose the plot its driving me mental can you please tell me if you got better and you stopped feeling these symptoms?
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I just got diagnosed with MS.  I was vitamin D deficient.  Since I've started taking 10,000 IU of D3 a day for the past couple of weeks, I can say that I've had more energy and my spasms are less frequent.  I just take over the counter D3 supplement.  Get the gelcaps, they're better than the powder.  Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to all kinds of autoimmune disorders.  Even healthy people should be taking 1,000 IU/day.  That's what I took before I got diagnosed and I was still low.
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Hey everyone, I have the same problems, a twitching that started at the eye, then went to the rest of my body, along with bone pain in my wrists. I just got diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency. After reading a lot of scientific literature, I found out that vitamin D3 has a longer half life in your body. D3 also gets converted to the active form better in your body. So if the MD gives you D2 ask for D3. If the MD can't get you D3 ask how much you should take, and buy it at your local grocery store or pharmacy. I bought a bottle for less than 10 dollars on amazon.
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hi I'm pretty sure its due to ur diabetic condition ! cause they say that this tingling sensation is present in diabetic people.
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Could it be because vitamin K2 should be taken with the vitamin D for it to work properly?
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Hi,
My Vitamin D is 18 and I have all your sysmtoms you are say above. I also have had blood test to rule out things, Like lupus, lyme, Low B12. I even Had a MRI to rule out MS.

Ever thing is normal beside the Vitamin D.

I'm sure by now you are feeling better.

Best of wishes!
Renee
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hi everyone,many doctors dont know about D.Vitamin D do is not a big issue no worries everyone will be ok. pain killers will make more problem if you take for long.


sarah
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Hi everybody!
I' have been having muscle pain , pain in my arms and hands ...numbness and tingling stiffness in my fingers , and muscle fatigue for more than 7 years  now. I was convinced that I was suffering from Arthritis symptoms. i went to many doctors but they couldn't find the cause of my pain , theu just gave me anti-inflammatory drugs , so sometimes the pain disappear for 6 months / or a year and the pain came back again. in 2012 my doctor told me to check my vitamine D and the surprise that my vitamine D level was (4) That was very deficient after reading other posts, but it apparently it's the cause of my problems. He started me on 50000 iu a week for 3 months  , and it really helped me to get rid of my pain . But now the pain came back again with muscle pain in my neck and shoulders and pain and stifness and tingling in my hands and legs .A month ago i checked my vitamine D again and it was (18)  now my doctor put me again on 50.000 iu a week along with the physical therapy ! still no improvement ! Im really fed up with these symptoms . I'm 27 years old male from new york
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8969979 tn?1400905436
Hi, not sure if you still keep up with this. But i have some of some symptoms too. I go next week for a MRI. I was wondering how things came out for you?

My daughters are 4 years and the other just turned 1. Just thought I share that...lol
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Hello, i have been experiencing twitching in my gums of my mouth. I barely started taking Vit D 1000 units. I hope it goes away. Any suggestions??
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