Mayalaen

I have a lot of knowledge stuck in my head from years in the medical field but I don’t always look up ALL THE THINGS when a doc tells me to do something.

That backfired on me after my last doc retired and new doc saw I was taking  Vitamin D 50,000 IU/week for the last FOUR YEARS. And she didn’t even know I was taking 10,000 IU a day over the counter for a total of 120,000 IU/week -- previous doc approved that BTW.

The new doc was like okay STOP DOING THIS NOW 😱

I looked it up when I got home and the longest you’re supposed to be on it is 12 weeks even if you have chronically low vitamin D. They’ll give you a 2-12 week course once or twice a year to get your levels up again.

But FYI for anybody who has a doc like my last one: Don’t take more than 2000 IU a day unless it’s short term and under a doc’s care. Well, a good doc.

I stopped taking the vitamin D altogether about 3 weeks ago to give myself a cleanse, and now I’m going through withdrawals. It’s messing up my digestive system 😭

BUUUUUT

My fucking HOT FLASHES are FUCKING GONE!!

My last doc told me I was probably in early perimenopause brought on by the schiz meds and that’s why I was having horrendous 4-hour hot flashes during the middle of the day and another hot flash around 9pm for about an hour AND random cold flashes when my body felt like it.

I also read that THC boosts the effects of vitamin D supplements, and that together they can actually stop ovulation and cause a pseudomenopause in some people and a pseudoperimenopause in others.

That’s with TCH only 3x a week and more than 5000+ IU/day of vitamin D.

The other side effects of too much vitamin D include hallucinations. Like I didn’t have enough trouble with that 🙄

It also elevates your calcium, so there’s risk of kidney stones. There’s dizziness, vomiting, nausea, etc.

If someone takes enough, their organs can start shutting down, but that’s going over 250,000 IU/week.

I’ve never liked the fact that you can’t trust doctors to take care of you. I’m proactive about the entire family’s health, and it annoys some docs, but I don’t give a shit. Not when they pull fucked up shit like this on people.

The wildest part of this whole thing is that got a hold of my lab results from back when I was started on vitamin D and my level was only low-normal 😡

I’m only 3 weeks out from stopping the vitamin D, so maybe I’m wrong and I actually am in medication-induced perimenopause but I just don’t have severe symptoms, but whatever it is, the hot and cold flashes that have plagued me for 4 years now are gone 🥳