Vitamin D Treatment Report
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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 taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| low vitamin d levels or deficient | 65 |
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6 | |||
| Fibromyalgia | 34 | 0 | |||||
| Fatigue | 21 |
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1 | ||||
| General health | 14 |
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1 | ||||
| Other | 9 |
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2 | |||
| Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) | 6 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Vitamin D. See all 55 dosages ►
| 1other as needed | 1 mg weekly | 1.25 mg weekly | 1 cap(s) daily | 1 tab(s) daily | 2 mg daily | 4 cap(s) daily | 400 intl units monthly | 125 mg weekly | 400 intl units weekly | 100 intl units daily | 100 mg daily | 1000 intl units weekly | 200 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 5000 intl units every other week | 400 intl units daily | 400 mg daily | 500 intl units daily | 600 mg daily | 5000 intl units weekly | 800 intl units daily | 800 mcg daily | 800 mg daily | 1000 intl units daily | 1000 mg daily | 1200 intl units daily | 10000 intl units weekly | 10000 mcg weekly | 1600 intl units daily | 50,000 intl units monthly | 50000 intl units monthly | 1800 intl units daily | 2000 intl units daily | 2000 mcg daily | 2800 intl units daily | 20000 intl units weekly | 50000 mg every other week | 4000 intl units daily | 5000 intl units daily | 5000 mcg daily | 5000 mg daily | 50,000 intl units weekly | 50000 intl units weekly | 50000 mcg weekly | 50000 mg weekly | 8000 intl units daily | 10000 intl units daily | 100000 intl units weekly | 2 x 50,000 intl units weekly | 3 x 50,000 intl units weekly | 50,000 intl units daily | 50000 intl units daily | 500000 intl units weekly | 1500000 intl units weekly | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 44% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 22% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 22% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 11% |
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Expense
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1 | 11% |
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Other
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1 | 11% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- Ithurts
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Some
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: Most
- Stickman: all
- Description:F63y
- FM:1y Dx
- See profile
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- Ithurts
- 2000 intl units daily
- since Jul 24, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for i live where the sun hardly shines at all and Vit D has been proven to help w/muscle pain which I haven't had yet
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It's great because I live in Boston where the sun shines infreqwhenly(sp) and because the FDA is finding new reason why we should take Vit D I take 1 tab. 10... See full evaluation
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- andi114
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: Little
- function: Some
- external_stress: Most
- Stickman: most
- Description:F44y
- FM:1y Dx
- See profile
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- andi114
- 50000 intl units weekly
- since Mar 05, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 12 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.