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What is Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is found in numerous dietary sources such as fish, eggs, fortified milk, and cod liver oil. The sun is also a significant contributor to the body's daily production of vitamin D. Cholecalciferol is the most widely known of the vitamin D series and is a fat soluble vitamin.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 42 2
Slow my ALS progress 10 0
Other 6 1
low vitamin d levels or deficient 6 1
Osteoporosis 3 0
Deep Bone Pain 1 1

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
5 100%

Dosages

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Vitamin D. See all 32 dosages

  daily 1.25 mg monthly 1 mcg weekly 50 daily 100 mg daily 250 mg daily 400 daily 400 intl units daily 400 mg daily 450 mg daily 500 daily 500 mg daily 800 daily 800 intl units daily 800 mg daily 1000 intl units daily 1000 mcg daily 1000 mg daily 1200 intl units daily 1262 intl units daily 2000 intl units daily 3000 mg daily 4000 intl units daily 5000 daily 5000 intl units daily 5000 mg daily 6000 intl units daily 50,000 intl units weekly 50000 intl units weekly 8000 intl units daily 10000 intl units daily 50000 intl units daily
  5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 16 Number of Patients: 16 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 10 Number of Patients: 10 1 Number of Patients: 1 10 Number of Patients: 10 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Vitamin D (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work
4 50% Did not seem to work: 50%
Other
2 25% Other: 25%
Expense
1 13% Expense: 13%
Personal research
1 13% Personal research: 13%
Not indicated
1 13% Not indicated: 13%

See all 8 patients who’ve stopped taking Vitamin D

Currently Taking Vitamin D

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
2
5
8
20
15

Stopped Taking Vitamin D

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
2
4
1

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
4 80%
Usually
1 20%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 20%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
4 80%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
3 60%

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Report created on November 21, 2009.