Greetings to all.
Has anyone used an injection to raise low vitamin D levels? Are injectable versions available?
Greetings to all.
Has anyone used an injection to raise low vitamin D levels? Are injectable versions available?
What’s your most recent vitamin D result
Vitamin D mouth spray is popular and gives good results
After 3 months using a spray went from 23 to 27. Using a spray 800 IU 5 times a day
Do you mean 23nmol (U.K. units) or 23ng/ml
If 23nmol GP should have prescribed 300,000iu over 6-8 weeks
That’s 5000iu per day for 8 weeks or 7000iu per day for 6 weeks
Better You vitamin D mouth spray is 1000iu per spray
If you have Hashimoto’s common to need 5000-6000iu per day to improve levels, especially if still hypothyroid
Are you currently taking any magnesium supplements
Once you get to 80nmol-100nmol (40ng/ml)
Reduce dose to a maintenance level to maintain steady levels
Your test results are 23 and 27 - so which measurements did they use ? nmol/L or ng/L ?
27 ng/mL
Liyaelize
27 ng/mL
So the recommended level is 40-60ng/ml.
Are you also taking magnesium? When taking D3 we need magnesium for the body to convert the D3 into it's usable form.
Link for Conversion of nmol to ng/ml
endmemo.com/medical/unitcon...
23ng/ml = 57nmol
27ng/ml = 67nmol
Looking at previous posts you are only on low dose levothyroxine
Likely low Ft4
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/300...
The thyroid hormone status would play a role in the maintenance of vitamin D sufficiency, and its immunomodulatory role would influence the presence of autoimmune thyroid disease. The positive correlation between free T4 and vitamin D concentrations suggests that adequate levothyroxine replacement in HT would be an essential factor in maintaining vitamin D at sufficient levels.
There are injectables but the serum levels start to drop very quickly and they're not maintained.
Would it help to get levels up with injectable D and then maintain with topical or oral supplements? Do you know of injectable D3? Thanks so much
I couldn't find even a single injectable vitamin D available in the UK.
I think you might find few of us know anything about such injections.
You can read about vitamin D injectables and similar here: cks.nice.org.uk/topics/vita...
It's rare to get them (ironically, I qualified for them notionally because of my chronic, severe deficiency but my CCG doesn't fund anything except oral preparations).
There are various trials underway with injectables/similar because for some groups of people they may be associated with an enhanced fall risk or similar.
I think my search might have missed ergocalciferol (D2) products (though quite a few were included - just to confuse). I was primarily thinking colecalciferol (D3).
Upbeat as this tiny report about IM vitamin D is, the value of them is contentious : pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/284...
Interesting completed trial about high oral doses in post-menopausal vitamin D deficient women (can't see the results as yet but the size of the experimental bolus doses are eye-opening): clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...
Thanks so much