Taking vitamin D again

Posted by Tomatheus on August 14, 2013, at 17:51:39

Hi all,
I just wanted to post an update to say that I've begun taking vitamin D again. A blood test that I underwent several months ago found that I had insufficient levels of the vitamin, and when I tried supplementing with vitamin D a few months ago, I noticed a reduction in my fatigue, hypersomnia, and related symptoms that lasted for about two weeks before my symptoms seemed to return to their baseline level. With that vitamin D trial, I took 400 IU of the vitamin and tried increasing my dose to 800 IU after I became unresponsive, only to notice what seemed like nothing after the dose increase.
Although it's possible that I might not respond to vitamin D in the long run, I want to make sure that I try taking an adequate dose of the vitamin (enough to raise vitamin D blood levels, so probably around 5,000 IU) for long enough (at least three months, in my estimation) before I conclude that vitamin D isn't going to help me. I won't take too much vitamin D right away, though, because I did notice an increase in psychotic symptoms when I tried taking the vitamin at one point before I was taking Abilify. I think that to avoid possibly becoming too psychotic but to also get the therapeutic benefits that I might be able to get from vitamin D that it would make the most sense for me to gradually increase the dose of my vitamin. For the past two days, I've been taking 400 IU of vitamin D, and as of tonight, I plan on increasing the dose to 800 IU.
I've also decided to wait on plans to ask my psychiatrist about the medication nimodipine (which I wrote about in a recent post on the medication board) until it becomes clear what the results of my vitamin D trial will be. I do think that nimodipine sounds promising, but considering that my vitamin D levels are low, I think that it would make more sense to try treating a condition that can be measured before trying to bring up my somatostatin levels with nimodipine without knowing for sure that I have low somatostatin levels.
Well, that sums up my update. If I have further updates to share with you guys in the future, I'll probably post them here.
T.
Conditions:
* chronic fatigue, hypersomnia, and related symptoms
* schizoaffective disorder
Taking Abilify, niacin, vit D
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Taking vitamin D again Tomatheus 8/14/13
Update: 1 month of vitamin D Tomatheus 9/14/13
Update: 2 months of vitamin D Tomatheus 10/14/13
Re: Update: 2 months of vitamin D Lao Tzu 10/18/13
Re: Update: 2 months of vitamin D )))Tomatheus Lao Tzu 10/18/13
Re: Update: 2 months of vitamin D » Lao Tzu Tomatheus 10/18/13
Update: Probable poopout Tomatheus 10/25/13
Update: 3 months of vitamin D Tomatheus 11/14/13
End of vitamin D trial Tomatheus 12/8/13
Updated signature Tomatheus 12/8/13
Starting another vitamin D3 trial Tomatheus 12/28/13
End ... again Tomatheus 1/1/14
Taking vitamin D yet again Tomatheus 2/3/14
Update: 1 month into current vitamin D trial Tomatheus 3/3/14
Update: 2 months into current vitamin D trial Tomatheus 4/3/14
Re: Update: 2 months into current vitamin D trial » Tomatheus SLS 4/4/14
Re: Update: 2 months into current vitamin D trial » SLS Tomatheus 4/4/14
Update: 3 months into current vitamin D trial Tomatheus 5/2/14
Re: Update: 3 months into current vitamin D trial » Tomatheus herpills 5/14/14
Re: Update: 3 months into current vitamin D trial » herpills Tomatheus 5/15/14
Update: 4 months into current vitamin D trial Tomatheus 6/2/14
Re: Update: 4 months into current vitamin D trial » Tomatheus herpills 6/8/14
Re: Update: 4 months into current vitamin D trial » herpills Tomatheus 6/8/14
Update: 5 months into current vitamin D trial » Tomatheus Tomatheus 7/8/14
Update: Taking 4,000 IU of vitamin D3 Tomatheus 11/6/14
Update: Probable slow improvement from vitamin D3 Tomatheus 1/1/15
Update: Losing steam Tomatheus 2/5/15

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