My levels of vitamin D were low. I now take 5000 units of vitamin D a day.

Mine were quite low. This surprised me, as I live where the sun is strong, I spend time outdoors, and I can't stand sunscreen. I took the industrial-strength prescription supplement for about four years (in addition to a daily dose of the OTC) to get it back up to normal. I'm still on the daily dose.

I can't see that it has made a bit of difference. Like so many other things, there's no way to know how I would feel without it, but . . . There is a correlation between autoimmune disease and low levels of D. No one knows which is the cart and which is the horse, just that a high number of people with one also have the other.

i keep mine normal with supplements.

on diagnosis, i tested at 3. yes 3.

i can't tell any difference between that testing time and now. no wait a minute, I feel worse but that's just the disease progressing over the years.

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If you eat vegan diet, you don't get vitamin D fro fish and eggs and milk, and if you don't get sunshine you don't get vitamin d, but if you eat fish and get sun, then be careful because it can mess with your bones and with calcium, and that can mess with your heart and kidneys and give you atsheimers. So if you have low vitamin d, make sure you know why. And make sure your doctor knows because if you get too much vitamin d, then you get problems too,

I take vitamin D. 5000 units a day too. I take many supplements due to my gastric bypass I had in 2009.

My doctor told me everyone should take D because we are a society that avoids the natural sunlight these days, always slathering on sunscreen. She told me almost everyone would test low.

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Mine were dx quite low. I take 50,000 IU per week. After one year, my blood levels of D were back in normal range. Bone density in my hip has increased, which reduces my chances for a broken bone! I live on a ranch in Texas, so I get plenty of sun. Guess my own body can't make it any more

Yes I was low before I was showing full RA symptoms. I supplement and my levels are normal now.

Oh yes. I must take 7,000 iu Vit D 3 per day to get into the required range. Yes, 7,000. The prescription Vit D 2 once a month pill was worthless. Summer sun doesn't help (but I'm too fair anyway). My father always said that everyone in his family died of cancer (him too) so I'm thinking this may be the reason why. I've got at least one cousin like me.Oh well, it's cheap.

My levels were very low. I've been taking 50,000 iu weekly for about a year and it has gotten some better but is still quite low.

Mine went from normal to low in less than six months. On 50,000 units twice a week for month to try to raise the levels. Will be retested to see if it helped. I do not get in the sun. I am genetically predisposed to melanoma. Grandfather, father, me, and daughter have had it. I stay out of the sun or use a sunblock. I thought that was the reason it was low. I was wrong.