I take 25000U once a month. I feel so much better. My partner - who does not have Ms also takes Vit D - his doc told him that as you get older you need more.

My mother has rickets as a child (she grew up in not so sunny England) and I have read that first born children to mothers who have had rickets (caused by Vit D deficiency ) are more likely to develop Ms.

The FDA has linked Vitamin D3 deficiencies to MS, Parkinson's and breast cancer. I, too, when dx'd was deficient in D3. I have yet to meet another MS'er that wasn't deficient in D3 when dx'd.

I am so convinced that a D3 deficiency is an invitation for trouble that all four of my adult kids take 2,000 IU each day. Personally, I take 4,000 IU each day.

I have been taking vit D for over a decade since I read something about it helping us with MS way back then. Now the MS Society advocates us to take it. My level is about 49 at last check. But my neuro wants those of us with MS to have a 60 level or higher and he is an expert on MS.

So do whatever you doctor recommends to get it up (ha ha). Vitamin D level really works. Take it as long as you have MS (which unless they come up with a cure will be forever.)

My doctor tested mine and it came back 20 she put me on 50000 iu a week for 8 wks.

I was having all the symptoms of MS, & was being told by several that it looks like MS to them!? And, then when I changed doctors sometime back here, she did some test & told me that I was very deficiant in Vit. D!

I brought this up to the last neuro I saw! That I have all the symptoms of MS, that several doctors are thinking that & leaning in that direction, & that I had recently also found out that I had a Vit... D def..... And, that I know that there is a connection between the two!

To me!? That is just another indication that the other docs & my best friend who works in & teaches PT is right & I feel it is right on myself! Just judging from my own symptoms, how they present & my gut intuition!? Which is usually dead on! But I haven't found a neuro worth wasting time on! They've all been dickheads & a total waste of my time!!! I couldn't be more sorry that i got my hopes up or wasted time on the idiots that I've seen so far!?

I do not know what my Vitamin D level is, but my neuro said MS patients need have their bone density checked. I had a bone density scan done, and mine showed that I have Osteoporosis . I have since started to load up on the calcium and vitamin D. I also take some prescription once a week to make my bones more dense.

I hear people say they are deficient in vitamin D and take D-3 supplements. My stupid question, aren't there other vitamin D's? (D-1,D-2, D-6, D-12. etc).

Vitamin D3 is the one MSer's become deficient in from everything I've read.

" Vitamin D3 is the one MSer's become deficient in from everything I've read. "

What are th othr D vitamins good for?