Vitamin D Deficiency ?

[pains47]

Can a Vitamin D deficiency cause this much pain? Went to the doc for muscle pain & weakness with increasing shooting pains to the point of affecting everyday functioning.
Blood test came back low in Vitamin D. Result was 11, (should be 26 to 55). Other results OK. Cervical Spine & lower back MRI
OK. Treatment is 50,000 units of D per week for 4 weeks and thereafter once a month. Been on it for 4 months. Feel at times like I was in accident.Have researched on the net, and still find it difficult to believe that this can cause this much suffering. Anyone familiar with anything like this?

[PattyE112]

I got my results today and my level is now 54. I am to take 2000 units daily. I feel emotionally like a new person, depression is gone. Anxiety is back to what I used to feel like. I am sleeping well and my dreams are very active. I remember them better. My legs still cramp but I again the allergy season is not at all agreeing with me this year so I'm not sure physically how I feel since I am tired and no energy. I tell everyone I know about vitamin D. This should be on the top of the list for all psychiatrists, doctors and therapists. In fact I think I'll even write Obama and suggest it as part of the new Health Care Reform.

[PattyE112]

Update from my post of April 18, 2009 - I must say in the last week a startling clarity and lightness in my emotions has come over me. I will test my blood tomorrow at the lab. I will let you know what it came in at. I took my last dose on Wed 5/12. I now am taking 2000 units per day as prescribed. I still have aching calves at night and I have had a bad round with seasonal allergies so physically it is hard for me to decipher exactly how I feel but emotionally I sure feel better!

[daxy69]

that is so unhelpful, really, when i went to the doctor with thyroid issues he completely treated me like i was wasting his time, started telling me that after 3 minutes that i had to go as there were other people waiting to see him (i was the only person in the waiting room). When three days later they called me back with greaves disease and was apparently really ill he wanted to shake my hand and all the other doctors wanted to get their hands round my throat as they had little experience of seeing a hypo-thyroid person before.


i have spent the last 15 years or so supporting people in my career and i have to say if i treated people like i get treated by my doctor, i wouldn't have got very far earning people's trust. there are many more stories i have about attending my doctors, i have a nurse friend and i tell some of the stuff, she is pretty horrified by my tales, such as being told the reason I may not be able to get rid of a cold is that my partner may have transmitted a sexual transmitted infection on to me! That I wasn’t feeling well because I must be depressed (six months later diagnosed with graves disease).

That when I called to get the results of the vit D levels the receptionist on the desk, read the results and told me that all was normal, she is not supposed to do that, PLUS the results were not normal they were at 13!. You have to laugh really!

however, i did not come on here to rant about doctors or be told i 'should get more sun' i was hoping that sharing what i am going through might be helpful as my personal experience not being treated well by your doctor or not being listened  too can have negative effects on your well-being.

From this website I have worked out that I may have had low vit D for about 3 or 4 years and that may have been the underlying issue with my health for then. If I could depend on my doctor for help or support then I life would be different, but, living in London it just ain’t like that. I really do wish I could get a ‘thorough evaluation’ and be treated like an adult, really. But that does not seem to be on the menu so I look elsewhere for some kind of resolution I found that here.

Thanks and support to those who continue with this.

Ps, in case people are interested,  had a lovely day in the country on Friday day, felt refreshed and full of life on my return to the city,  however, aching legs kept me awake all the of the night. Work wants to send me to ‘occupational health’ and the company want access to my medical records, funny! Have no frame of reference for this, do I just say yes?

[consider_this]

couldn't read the entire post set, you all sounds like you THINK you know what you are talking about. Most doctors DO try to find the answers to your problems, even when you have left the office, we are still thinking about you. Sometimes we simply can not find an answer and this is serious reality that people with all their internet and technology seem unable to accept. Further, vitamin D deficiency is very common and DOES NOT necessarily mean you have some mysterious underlying condition.  Yes, you should get a thorough evaluation, but maybe you just need to get out in the sun more!

[daxy69]

i wish i could, am coming up to a month now (original level was 13) am assuming when i go back to my DR i will have another test,

currently am feeling rubbish, not sleeping well at all, interesting to note info from tiffdog5 i am am incredibly itchy, all over, mostly legs, feet, hands, body

legs are in contact low ache, still have trouble walking, feel like i have been on long walk, long marathon and long swim, but i havn't, someone said to me when i arrived at a work meeting this monday "did you cycle in" as i was so short of breath, i had just been walking.

not good really,

[tiffdog5]

Does it take along time for the Vitamin D prescription to make a difference?
I'm on my fourth week of 50,000 IU that I take once a week. My Vitamin D level was 6. And believe it or not when I first started taking them I started to feel better, but now all my symptoms are coming back slowly.  I now have an extreme stiff neck pain that radiates to my shoulders. And my lower back is killing me on my right side.  

Can anyone offer some advice?
Thank you