Vitamin D Question

I had my six month post -op appt yesterday and my labs are still showing as in my 3 month appt that my vitamin d levels are still low. I have been taking a sublingual vitamin d  1000iu for the past three months. Surgeon does not want to prescribe a vitamin d because he thinks I can try another OTC brand with at least 5000iu to see if my levels increase and he wants me to have labs drawn in three months. He basically said I am not absorbing the vitamin d I am currently using which is twinlabs brand vitamin d dots.

My question is  did anyone else have this problem? And if so, what type of vitamin D are you using now and did it correct the deficiency?

Thanks
Danielle

Hey Danielle

I never had any problem until my 3 year mark this past November. My WLS doc put me on prescription Vitamin D for 8 weeks (I think it was like 50,000 iu's) to give me a bolster. Then I had my labs re-drawn and they were GREAT so he switched me to OTC Vitamin D 1000 iu's taken twice a day at the same time I take my Calcium + Vitamin D...and it's working! My Vitamin D is in pill form and I swallow it...so it's not sub-lingual. I hope this helps...and try to get some sunlight everyday because that helps too naturally!

Thanks.

I did the prescription vitamin d,  pre-op 1 tablet once a week for 8 weeks. The NUT gave me samples from barriatric advantage yesterday and she also said nutrametrix makes an liquid vitamin d. I was just wondering  if  anyone else has experienced this and if they may have found an vit d in gnc, vitamin shoppe or walmart that may have increased their vitamin d levels.

Oh DUH I forgot to tell you what type of Vitamin D I'm taking...I just get the Spring Valley at Walmart...cheap and it works!

Hi Lashay. Try upping the dosage to 5,000 IU and make sure it's dry. Dry is better absorbed. After surgery, my level was 7 and in 6 weeks it jumped to 63. 

Thanks.

What brand did you use, if you don't mind me asking?

Danielle

I used Bio-Tech Dry D-3 50,000 IU. It's $23.99 and has 100 capsules.

I had a different surgery than you so I have to take some different vitamins. Because of a DSer's malasorption we don't absorb fat soluble vits, that includes ADE&K. Most people get away without supplementing K but most of us all take the AD&E. I get all of these from vitalady.com. Her prices are reasonable and she carries the dry 50K of D that I take everyday. I've never seen this high an IU at GNC or Vitaminshop. I think she also carries the 25K D. Whatever you get make sure its in the dry form.

Thanks ladies I ordered the ones from VItalady.


Danielle