50,000 units Vit D

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I just started taking 50,000 unit of Vitamin D once a week. Hopefully I will start feeling less tired and more interested in life.

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I take 1000 IU of Vitamin D everyday.
I have a Deficiency.

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my level was at 14 when I had my blood tested. I just googled it said normal level is 25-80

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50000 IU sems way too high to be safe. You risk getting Vitamin D toxicity. :frowning:

EDIT: I misread the original post and thought it said 50,000 IU daily rather than weekly.

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that is what the doctor prescribed, so I assume he knows what he is doing, but you never know. it says units not IU so I am not sure what that means

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@Moonbeam A lot of people take 50000 IU once a week, perfectly safe. It’s a somewhat common script where I work.

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@ejm “units” refers to IU.

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Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying that dose is not uncommon @scoobasteve

The NIH link I posted stated Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs) for Vitamin D was 4000 IU, so that caught my attention.

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oh, I thought he had said 50000 IU daily dose rather than weekly. :smile:

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Oh, ok. Yeah, 50000 IU daily would be way too much. We have one patient who takes 50000 IU twice weekly, and that is an awful lot, must have a severe deficiency.

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I had that prescribed for me on a weekly basis for two months once, then lowered to 2,000 a day. I was pretty severely deficient at the time. My doctor made it sound like 50k/week was almost always a temporary intervention, though.

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Me too. it was probably due to not getting enough direct sunlight.

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I love vitamin D.

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I’ve heard large doses of Vitamin C can help too, especially with illnesses like fatigue and cancer.

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