Comments for Vitamin Deficiency Symptoms

Comment on What Causes Vitamin D Deficiency by Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:20:16 +0000

With all due respect Kimberly, you’re are wrong — pain is one of the common symptoms of vitamin d deficiency.

Check Pubmed…there are dozens of studies linking vitamin d-3 deficiency with a variety of different types of pain, including muscular, bone, and joint pain.

Quoting just one study from Johns Hopkins: “In one case, months after treatment and subsequent improvement of vitamin D status and pain, the vitamin D status again declined and the pain recurred. The pain again resolved with vitamin D replacement and improvement of levels.”

Arch Intern Med. 1991 Aug;151(8):1662-4.

And here’s another one:

“Initial assessment involved 360 patients (90% women and 10% men) attending spinal and internal medicine clinics over a 6-year period who had experienced low back pain that had no obvious cause for more than 6 months. The patients ranged in age from 15 to 52 years.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the contribution of vitamin D deficiency as a cause for idiopathic chronic low back pain, to find a simple and sensitive test for screening patients with low back pain for vitamin D deficiency, and to determine the correlation between the vitamin deficiency and pain. METHODS: A biochemical assay of serum calcium, phosphate, alkaline phosphatase, and 25-hydroxy vitamin D level was performed before and after treatment with vitamin D supplements.

RESULTS: Findings showed that 83% of the study patients (n = 299) had an abnormally low level of vitamin D before treatment with vitamin D supplements. After treatment, clinical improvement in symptoms was seen in all the groups that had a low level of vitamin D, and in 95% of all the patients (n = 341).

CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D deficiency is a major contributor to chronic low back pain in areas where vitamin D deficiency is endemic. Screening for vitamin D deficiency and treatment with supplements should be mandatory in this setting.”

Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2003 Jan 15;28(2):177-9.

and there are many, many more like these two.

I hope you’ll do more studying before you officially become a dietitian and give out such incorrect advice.

Comment on Vitamin K Deficiency by sharon smith

sharon smith — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:09:02 +0000

does vitamin d,c,k defiency cause rapid weight gain in children

Comment on Vitamin D Deficiency Diseases by pat Underwood

pat Underwood — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:51:44 +0000

pat Underwood :I am 66 and some days can barely walk because my legs and hips hurt so badly. I have been diagnosed with 0 vitamin D. But am only taking 5,000 mg of Vitamin D a week,but I don’t think that is sufficient. I need some ideas.

Comment on What Causes Vitamin D Deficiency by Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:51:42 +0000

Hello,
Vitamin D deficiency will not cause pain. It can make your muscles weaker, and along with decreased calcium your bones may weaken but it will not be the cause of joint pain, lower leg pain, or pelvis pain. Almost everyone is deficent in Vitamin D, its just the latest craze in the medical feild so Doctors are starting to check it more now. you can start on a reload does of 50,000 IU weekly for 4-8 weeks then switch to that monthly or take 2000 IU over the counter daily.
It is sagfe to take with pregancy because its just a high dose of the vitamin you get from food and sun. fortified foods like milk will have vitamin, and getting out in the sun as much as possible will help too.

Kimberly-Intern about to be a Dietitian

Comment on What Causes Vitamin D Deficiency by gayle

gayle — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:28:29 +0000

I too was diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency this past week. I am having all the symptoms, leg pain, mood swings, sleeping irregularities. I have been able to find symptoms, what I can not find is the causes, I live in the south so the exposure to sunlight is not the problem, do drink milk.

Comment on Vitamin B12 Deficiency by samy

samy — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:21:34 +0000

duration of ttt of b12 def needed to aleviate symptoms

Comment on What Causes Vitamin D Deficiency by Jan Lloyd

Jan Lloyd — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:22:06 +0000

I have a Vit D deficiency too and I am hypothyroid. The two seem to be linked but does nyone know how or why. I am constantly outside.

Comment on What Causes Vitamin D Deficiency by Rossanne

Rossanne — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:01:07 +0000

I too have been diagnosed with vitamin D dificiency, I don’t drink milk but I was still surprised cause I eat other dairy product and walk in the morning I’m now taking 5ooo i.u.s of vitimin D and I’m going to start sitting in the sun on my patio now that its spring!

Comment on Vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms by Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:51:59 +0000

@Shirley Jones
Just wanted to comment on your pin-prickling issue. I am not aware if you have solved it yet. I was told i had restless leg syndrome as a teen. I have severe leg twitches, pins and needles feeling. They twitch even when i am standing. I was recently diagnosed with a vitamin d deficiency that i have had since i was a teen. I take 10,000 iu’s of vitamin d3 daily. The “rls” symptoms have lessoned by 50%. I just started taking the vitamin d two weeks ago. I also have had leg pains since i was a teen as well. I have bone pain and muscle weakness while taking vitamin d3 but it is getting less and less. I have that cause i have had a deficiency for so long. Since i was a teen, i am 35 years old now. The deficiency also caused insomnia, and some of my bones are a little abnormal looking. Still doing tests to figure out why. But the vitamin d3 really helped my legs slow down the twitching. It went to constant twitching, pins and needles, etc.. to less than half what it use to.

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Watch out for These Vitamin C Problems : : Belly Fat Zone — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:34:48 +0000

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