Vitamin D loading dose issue

[Dissydee]

Hi all,

I was prescribed 50,000 iu Vitamin D3 (SunVit brand) to take weekly for 6 weeks.

I took my first dose on Tuesday last week, since then I’ve been experiencing quite severe tension headaches, dizzy spells, tummy issues and anxiety. The headaches were unbearable and from the moment I woke up til going to sleep.

I went to the hospital yesterday and the doctor thinks it’s possibly the loading dose and so he advised me not to take the next one till my symptoms have reduced.

I’m feeling better today, but I’m too scared to take my next dose tomorrow. I don’t think I want to take any D3 after what’s happened to me. Is there another safer way?

Has anyone else had any of these side effects from a D3 loading dose? The side effects listed didn’t really include the effects I was experiencing.

I have heard of a company named Wild Nutrition that provides vitamins and minerals as food grown forms so they’re not synthetic and your body recognises it as food so digests it a lot easily. I just don’t feel comfortable at all taking any synthetic vitamin after what’s happened.

[Marz]

Loading doses have always concerned me as it must be a shock to the system. I am not a medic.

VitD is more than a vitamin - it is anti-inflammatory and a steroidal pro-hormone. So a lot going on. It is also fat soluble so should be taken with good dietary fats. What was your VitD test result ?

[Dissydee in reply to Marz]

Thank you, I had no idea.

I think more than likely the symptoms I’ve been experiencing the last week have been due to the loading dose.

My test result is:

Vitamin D - 21 nmol/L [50.0 - 140.0]

I took the loading dose straight after my main meal, it was just baked salmon and spinach rice so I wonder if that wasn’t fatty enough? Is that what it means by fat soluble? Thanks ☺️

[Marz in reply to Dissydee]

Yummy ! Should be fine ! Could you take 5,000 iu's daily - soft gels with olive oil ? On-line Doctors Best. Co-factors - are you taking them ?

[Marz in reply to Marz]

Your last post has detailed replies from SlowDragon re VitD and more !

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Why not try a more cautious approach and get yourself some vitamin D mouth spray as discussed in detail in your previous post

Start with one spray per day - 1000iu

If ok…..slowly increase up to 5 sprays per day for 8 weeks

Then retest

Are you now working on improving your very low folate, B12 and ferritin too

Personally I struggled to tolerate vitamin D until I improved my magnesium levels

More on my profile

And like many (most?) Hashimoto’s patients I need to supplement at relatively high dose of at least 5000iu daily to MAINTAIN vitamin D around 100nmol …….plus daily magnesium and daily vitamin B complex

[Dissydee]

Thank you all.

I’m going to start slowly with 1000 iu a day in the form of a spray if I can source a good one and take it from there.