Vitamin d 38.3 (25 - 50 deficient)

[bluepurple]

Shouldn't 800iu prescribed to me have raised it by now been on it for 3 years thank you

[cjrsquared]

Check out NICE guidance, 800iu is a maintenance dose not a therapeutic dose to raise from insufficiency. For that you need much higher loading doses, several regimes on NICE followed by 800iu daily for life.

[jezebel69]

Hi - I suggest looking on the Vitamin Council website. Their recommendation is much higher

[jezebel69 in reply to jezebel69]

OOPS that of course should read Vitamin D Council (I'm a bit hypo today lol)

[Angel_of_the_North]

No. 800iu is a maintenance dose for a small child with good levels already. You need a much higher dose, as you have discovered.

[Phoenix605]

GPs are very poor with this, I was prescribed 800 iu too. I took advice here, googled the vit d deficiency prescribing guidelines for my area, rang back the next day and left a message quoting need for loading dose and hiw much. Heard nothing so rang back 2 days later to find practice pharmacist had approved loading dose and left a new prescription to collect (just didnt tell me).

I would go back (armed with the dosing guidelines for your area) and ask why they think you are still deficient after 3 years, what they are going to do about it and why they are not following the proper NHS dosing guidelines for deficiency.