Fibromyalgia - Friends- Is it safe to take vitamin D3 10,000 iu?

Hey J... and Laurie, to answer your question 10,000 is NOT too high for your doctor to put you on if you are low in the vitamin D category. Actually, you can take up to 50,000 IU if you are below the level. This is a relatively new field that doctors are finding since they are pushing the sunscreen so hard. Now people are not laying out in the sun as they used to, and many people are putting sunscreen on their faces to keep it from wrinkling. the downside is that people are losing out on their Vit.D levels, and doctors never thought to check on the opposite problem happening due to sunblock. They thought that fortified mild would make up for it, and your body simply doesn't absorb the Vit.D as well as the sun, therefore the high units when you are low. I'm sure that after you have been on 10,000 IU for a few weeks or even months because it takes that long to absorb the vitamin from a pill, your doctor will take another blood test to see where you are.

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Be grateful that you have a doctor who is up on this. My rheumatologist thought that I was doing just fine with my levels even thought I was slightly below normal. I could feel the bones in my legs hurting. When I showed the results to my endocrinologist, he put me on 50,000 IU five days a week for six months before he even took my bloodwork again. I still was on the low side of normal!! So for six more months I had to take the 50,000 three times a week before he was satisfied.

Also, as you age, you are not able to absorb as much Vitamin D from the sun. If you have a low normal level, chances are your body is taking the vitamin from your organs and bones... thus osteoporosis. They are also finding out that for osteo, you need vitamin K to and vitamin D to absorb the calcium in your bones.

There is an excellent website, and doctors office that treats women only (even on the phone if you choose) that was started by the famous gynecologist Christine Northrup. It is called Women to Women. The site is an absolute wealth of information about anything women have to deal with, and you certainly don't have to purchase anything. I have been using their better bones vitamin packs, and I had severe osteo. I now have been off of Boniva IV for two years, and I don't have osteo anymore. It's worth a look.

Good luck! And Laurie, please don't take offense. You are so smart and helpful, but I've lived through this one, so I'm pretty up on the research. Ellen