 Posted 20/01/2012 19:21:22
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| Having been diagnosed with OP nearly 3 years ago, I have just been advised by the specialist to take cholcalcferol for low vitamin 3.....anyone any info??
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Posted 20/01/2012 19:37:37
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Hi Judith,
Cholecalciferol is the other name for vitamin D3. If your specialist has advised you to take this because you have low vitamin D levels he should have prescribed it for you.
Here's a set of guidelines for doctors on vitamin D: www.imperialendo.com/for-doctors/vitamin-d-guidelines You'll see it says what you need to replace the vitamin D depending on what your level of vitamin D is. What is your level ?
I'm prescribed Dekristol which is 20,000 IU D3 (cholecalciferol) which I take once a week in the winter and once a fortnight in the summer. My level of vitamin D is in the optimal range.
Osteoporosis - Strontium Ranelate, Dekristol vitamin D3 20,000 IU/week, weight lifting, walking and vibration platform exercise, alkaline loaded diet, vitamin K2 MK-7 100mcg/d, K2 MK-4 5mg/d. Diabetes - Repaglinide, low carb diet and exercise. Congenital heart defect - Omacor and CoQ10
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Posted 20/01/2012 19:55:13
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| Hi Anne, thanks for the info...very informative. I'm just at the beginning of my investigations. My hospital test results show that my Vitamin D score is 38.6 nmol/L so I'm trying to find out where this comes in the spectrum of normality!! Judith
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Posted 20/01/2012 20:08:16
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Hi Judith,
You'll see from that link that 38.6 nmol/L is either deficient or insufficient depending on the assay used. My last measurement was 149 nmol/L which is optimal.
Just out of interest, my son had his level of vitamin D measured last week (only because he gets lots of colds and our GP practice obviously is fine about measuring vitamin D, some GP practices aren't) and his level was 87 nmol/L which is in the normal range, the low end of normal that is.
Osteoporosis - Strontium Ranelate, Dekristol vitamin D3 20,000 IU/week, weight lifting, walking and vibration platform exercise, alkaline loaded diet, vitamin K2 MK-7 100mcg/d, K2 MK-4 5mg/d. Diabetes - Repaglinide, low carb diet and exercise. Congenital heart defect - Omacor and CoQ10
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Posted 20/01/2012 20:27:10
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Many thanks for your reply....good luck!
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