June 2, 2017
2.0 out of 5 stars I started mega dosing just like the authorBy HC on September 21, 2015
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I was ever so hopeful that high doses of vitamin D would help me. I started mega dosing just like the author. But after a couple weeks, I began to get diarrhea from the high doses. I switched brands, thinking maybe that would get rid of the problem but it didn’t.
The author talks about buying vitamin D in bulk and I seriously wonder if there is something wrong with the vitamin D he’s buying. I bought ‘Vitamin D Complex’ by Designs for Health first. It has a mix of all the oil soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K). I thought maybe the diarrhea was from another vitamin so next I bout Vitamin D from Intensive Nutrition and it only had vitamin D. But I still got diarrhea from it. Both of these brands are really good, which is why I question his source of D.The only other way I can make sense of how he can take such high doses continuously is to think his body has a problem absorbing it??? I have celiac disease (can’t eat gluten). Before being diagnosed, my hair mineral tests would continuously show I was low in sodium no matter how much salt I put on my foods. In the end, I came to find out that low sodium is very common for people with celiac disease who are eating gluten.
At any rate, I just thought peeps should know this may not be the cure all you’re looking for. And you may want to use a doctor quality vitamin D supplement (and not his source).
John Truitt1 year ago
Yes it sound like you took too much too fast. You can get herxheimer reactions with vitamin d as it ramps up your immune response which then kills a lot of disease microbes off quickly creating a lot of toxins in your system making you feel bad and have illness symptoms digestive, headache, fatigue. Look up herxheimer reaction. It is a medical term. I think there’s a wiki entry on it.