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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread (5/4/2010 6:59:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus
This whole vitamin D shortage---it must be ENDEMIC, I hear so many women being diagnosed with it! What are you taking for it?
Last October my doctor tested my blood, because I was so tired all the time, and then told me I was very low in vitamin D. I'm glad they're finally testing for this. Anyway, I was given capsules to take once per week. The bottle seems to say that I only had two doses to take, but I thought there had been more. The pills were 50,000 IUs each.
Of course this would happen, when we were told to avoid the sun...cover up with clothing, use sunscreen, wear hats, and avoid going outside between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Then we're indoors all day, between home, jobs, and shopping. Years ago when something similar happened, the children were getting rickets, so schools started dosing them daily with a spoonful of cod liver oil for the vitamin D. Later vitamin D was added to milk, but...the price of milk has gone up so much that if we kept going through a gallon every two days, it would take too big of a bite out of our budget, so my son gets his milk and I get a small splash in my coffee.
I've been so long without sunshine touching my skin that being out in it for one hour last week burnt my exposed forearms to lobster red. I'm going to start sunbathing this year, scaring the neighbors by wearing shorts. [:D]
Fifteen or twenty minutes will have to be enough at first, but I'm hoping for half an hour on each side later on. I'm blonde and get a light burn after 15 minutes. My forearms have been the darkest tanned part of my body...a sort of peach tone; that's the darkest tan my body seems capable of producing. As a kid, I lived in California and in Florida, as well as other states. The weather was warm and we spent a lot of time in tank tops and shorts, but here in WV it's usually too cold for that except for a few months out of the year. Our town also has no outdoor community swimming pool.
Instead of strolling around the neighborhood after dinner, as in the old days, many people "mall walk" or go to indoor gyms.
Mom's afraid of brittle bones, so had her doctor do a bone density test recently as well as blood tests. I can't wait to see if she's low in vitamin D. She thinks not, because she takes the required daily dose for the average adult. If they've upped their recommendations, we haven't heard of it yet except here, I thought it was still at 200 IU on or vitamin bottles. If they've upgraded it, then...she might have flunked that blood test just like I did.
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