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Vitamin D (testing and supplements)

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Oct 29, 2023 | Replies (6)

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@sophie93, you may find this article informative, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912737/#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20suggested%20that,%2C%20chronic%20fatigue%2C%20age%2Drelated. It lays out in pretty good detail why so many people are vitamin D deficient, but also why most places don't routinely test and the difficulty of prescribing the correct supplement dose for each individual.

@sophie93, the article mentions that routine "vitamin D testing may benefit those at risk for severe deficiency (Table 2) or those with laboratory or radiographic findings commonly associated with vitamin D deficiency (Table 3)." If you are comfortable sharing, do you have some known issues with deficiency and other issues that may cause?

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Hello!
Thank you for the informative and very useful article 🙂

My Vitamin D levels had been measured several times and I have never been deficient. In fact, my levels have always been in the higher end of normal, but still in the optimal range.

However, I was thinking that having osteoporosis on itself would be a risk factor for deficiency, hence one would need more frequent tests.