Curious about this - someone who is very PALE might need more vitamin D??? I thought it was just the opposite.

(Current weight/25)*1000 = my current daily dose of D3... about 10,000 IU currently. My levels are being maintained around 50.

My levels must have dropped since my April test. He called and told me to take 2,000 IU a day. So I started taking my 10,000 IU dose again. Time to get back on the bandwagon...

The usual? range of light skin tones does more easily promote vitamin D synthesis from the sun. However, very pale skin tones, think Irish or Scottish heritage actually have fewer vitamin D receptors than "normal" lighter skinned people so they tend to just burn.

Sparse numbers of vitamin D receptors can be hereditary, genetic, fetal, environmental, or due to aging.

Luckily additional vitamin D receptors will be created when vitamin D is supplemented in sufficient amounts.

My Vitamin D was 13< which the doctor said it meant they could not measure it.

She put me on D2 - 50,000 IU once a week. So that is about 7000 IU a day. For the next 3 months and will recheck.

Next question I have for her is I don't do diary anymore so what about calcium?

I know D3 supplements when combined with calcium helps absorb more calcium. But I also have read a few sites that talk about Calcium supplements causing arterial blockage build up.

Not when taken with suffiencient vitamin D3, magnesium and vitamin K2.

The D2 version was totally useless for me, I tried 2 or 3 6-week rounds of it. Didn't budge the number but 2 or 3 points. Read post #14 on this thread, hopefully one of VitD experts on this thread will add to it.

Thanks Janet, I missed that sentence "The prescription vitamin D supplements are the wrong type (ergocalciferol - vitamin D2). As warned by the National Institute of Health -"

Screw... Well I will try the over the counter, again. But I swear when I upped it to 2000 IU a day it gave me liquid diherea (sp?)

I will start trying it next Monday...See if it happens again...

A lot of vitamin D3 supplements are inferior quality and will cause that effect. Try a quality supplement brand such as Carlson's, Vitacost, etc.

I buy 50,000 IU D3 from Bio-Tech Pharmacal but you can purchase the Bio-Tech D3 from Amazon and a few other outlets as well.

Wow, I had no idea! Thank you for that info - I'm Irish and extremely pale so that's very relevant to me.

I checked the prices & vitacost can't be beat - their largest pill is for only 10,000iu, so you have to take 5 but you can do the oil - 25 drops is 50,000iu

30 day supply x 50,000iu of vitacost = $7.10
100 day supply x 50,000iu of vitacost = $23.66

I do one Country Life Vitamin D3 softgel in MCT -- 5000 iu & 4 capsules of10,000 iu vit D

The cheapest source I've found for vit D3 -


http://www.vitacost.com/Referee?wls...ralCode=2287858

preferred recommendation - Country Life Vitamin D3 in MCT -- 5000 iu - 200 Softgels $8.62
2nd option - Vitacost Vitamin D Drops -- 2000 IU 900 servings - 1 fl oz = 365 days at 4960 iu $9.99
cheapest - 10,000 iu vit D for 365days $16.99 = $1.42 for a month's supply