vitamin D - please help

I am no expert, but we have to be just as careful of a high Vit D level as a low one. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and so the excess is NOT excreted by the body. High levels of vitamin D and calcium can lead to the calcification and damage to organs, particularly the kidneys and blood vessels, so you might want to consider cutting back on your use of your 50k iu Vit D until your levels are somewhere near the high end of normal! I am surprised that your doctor didn't give you this advice.

wow, it really raised your level high quickly!  I'm still taking 50,000 iu vitalady vitamin D daily too.  I'm going to continue until I get my levels checked again on Oct 20.  That will be after approximately 10 weeks of taking 50,000 iu daily.

 I'm sorry, I thought I had said that.  I was taking it every day, but now I"m going to try to take it only 3 days per week.  I go back in December for more labs.  

My post was in no way intended to be critical of you - I just think that this is something about which you need to be aware (of the possible health consequences) so that you can make an informed decision on what to do next.

The way I understood Vitalady's post was that 3 x per week is the maintenance dose for keeping a high end of normal level. You are currently nearly 3 x the optimum level of 90.

As I said, I am no expert on vitamins, but I do understand why docs freak out when we are SO much higher than the high end of normal! I get that we need to TAKE higher levels than non WLS people because of malabsorption but in the case of fat soluble vitamins, we should not be aiming for our levels to be so much higher than recommended.

I know we have people on here that have an interest in vitamin supplementation (although I am not sure they are medically trained) and I'll be interested to read their take on this.

I will say that I did have a nutritional component in my degree in Midwifery and so do have some understanding on nutrition and vitamins but would never consider myself an expert in WLS terms!

 Kim--I didn't think you were being critical!  I need all the help I can get.  Since I saw my primary care Doc today, she didn't really advise me on what dosage I needed to be taking since I normally discuss that with my surgeon, but I won't see him until December.  I really had no idea that Vitamin D could be toxic in higher doses.  But I knew it was quite high.  My surgeon said I needed to be taking 5,000 I.U's a day. I guess I should just break down and buy that dosage instead of trying to adjust the 50,000 I.U dosage.  Thanks for your help!