Vitamin D Prescription Treatment Report
What is Vitamin D Prescription?
Vitamin D actually refers to a group of steroid molecules. It is called the sunlight vitamin because the body produces it when the sun's rays strike the skin. It is important for the proper absorption of calcium from food and is vital for control of the levels of calcium in the blood.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| low vitamin d levels or deficient | 28 |
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| Vitamin D deficiency | 19 |
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| Other | 13 |
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1 | ||||
| General health | 11 |
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1 | ||||
| Slow my MS progress | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Cognition | 2 | 0 |
See all 84 patients currently taking Vitamin D Prescription
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Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Vitamin D Prescription. See all 46 dosages ►
| daily | 1 intl units every other week | 1 other every other week | 1 cap(s) weekly | 1 intl units weekly | 1 mcg weekly | 1 other weekly | 1.25 mg weekly | 2 mg weekly | 1 tab(s) daily | 1.25 other daily | 50 intl units monthly | 2 cap(s) daily | 2 mcg daily | 2 tab(s) daily | 50 mg weekly | 125 mcg weekly | 50 mcg daily | 400 intl units weekly | 400 mcg weekly | 100 mg daily | 800 intl units weekly | 10000 intl units monthly | 400 intl units daily | 400 mg daily | 1000 intl units daily | 1000 mg daily | 1200 intl units daily | 2000 intl units daily | 2000 mcg daily | 2000 mg daily | 3200 intl units daily | 50000 intl units every other week | 5000 intl units daily | 6000 intl units daily | 6800 intl units daily | 50000 cap(s) weekly | 50,000 intl units weekly | 50000 intl units weekly | 50000 mg weekly | 50000 other weekly | 100000 intl units weekly | 100000 mcg weekly | 150000 other weekly | 50000 intl units daily | 50000 mcg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Course of treatment ended
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11 | 65% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 12% |
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Other
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2 | 12% |
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Expense
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1 | 6% |
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Personal research
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1 | 6% |
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See all 17 patients who’ve stopped taking Vitamin D Prescription
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Patient Evaluations
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
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- Nyrsaeans
- 400 intl units weekly
- since Oct 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips none See full evaluation
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- komodolover
- Sex: F
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 3
- Compulsion: 3
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 29 F
- Function: Low
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- komodolover
- 50000 intl units every other week
- since Aug 17, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Osteomalacia
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Babsy56
- Pain: Little
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: all
- Description:57y
- FM:15y Dx
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- Babsy56
- 400 intl units daily
- since Sep 01, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for low vitamin d levels or deficient
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Couldn't tell any difference. Have had a vitamin D level drawn recently to evaluate. I've taken 2 courses of vitamin D for 3 months each. See full evaluation
See all 10 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.