Vitamin D deficiency???

I am one year out.  My doctor does not test for Vitamin D....guess I need to ask for this!!!

I am having pain in my arms, mostly my right arm, upper arm, mostly while sleeping.  If I wake during the night it actually hurts to move my arms.  I feel like my biceps are kind of weak lately.

I read that muscle pain can be associated with Vitamin D deficiency.  Is anyone with Vit. D deficiency experiencing this????

I have some Vitalady dry D3 onhand, so I am upping my dose.  Also, I presume I may have lost muscle mass in my weight loss, so I am breaking out the weights.

Any thoughts on this???

i suffer with what you are describing, too.  the muscle pains I have are basically all over, and inactivity makes it worse.  Of course, being active makes it worse, too.  hope your is just a temporary glitch.  mine's not - been 15 years and still hurting.  but at least I'm not lugging around an extra 100#s anymore!
There is new research out that supports chronic pain and low Vit D.  I take extra D3, haven't noticed a change, but if it works or has any effect, I would think it would be subtle and long term.

Get your levels tested. 

Thanks.  I am going to my doc this month for a checkup, so I will ask for the D test.  I googled muscle pain and vitamin deficiency (could one might assume we might be deficient) and thousands of articles on Vitamin D came up.

I am also going to seriously start to work out the arm muscles though.  I don't have the pain anywhere except the arms, with the right being the worse of the two.  I am a runner though, so my leg muscles get more of a workout....thus my suspicion that it might also just be muscle loss from weight loss.

Vitamin D deficiencies can affect a host of health issues. Poor calcium absorption is one of them. I had an 8 on my initial lab test for D.  A test for D has been included in the multiple lab tests I've had since my surgery 27 months ago, so I find not testing for D on labs to be strange. Since the normal range for D is 30-100, my doc put me on prescription D for 8 weeks and retested. I did this 3 times, and finally got up to 14. WOW?  I began taking liquid vitamins some 11 months ago, containing 600 IU per daily one ounce dose. With no other D in my supplements (my calcium citrate was powdered that I mixed with food or shakes, and had NO D in it at all) and my 2 year labs showed a level of 33. Not great, but within the normal levels. Recent research has shown that the maximum health benefits are obtained with levels of D over 70.  I now augment my diet with 2-3 of the 5000 IU D capsules from Vitalady.  Over half of the US population is either low or deficient in D. I do know that my legs feel much stronger since I began the extra D capules about 2 months ago. DAVE

I have been deficient in Vitamin D since November (had RNY in Sept)  and my upper arms started hurting in December.  I believed that the deficiencyrapid weight loss had something to do with the pain.  My local docs just keep trying to send me to PT, tell me its my athritis, carpal tunnel, etc.  I've taken the prescribed gel caps but the D is still deficient.  I had blood work this week and will see my surgeon Friday.  If I don't get better results, I will demand Dry D/D3.  I've read on OH that we actually absorb it.  I'm not absorbing the other, obviously.  I'm tired of hurting!  It wakes me up too.  I wake up and flip over to find a more comfortable position for two minutes.  ARGH!  Okay, I'm done now.....  Deb

Thanks.  I don't think the Dry D is what they prescribe.  You can get it from Vitalady.com

when I had my labs & my D was way way low. My doc perscribed vit D tabs. We don't absorb them so I got with vitalady & I now take dry D-3 . I don't think our reg docs know what we can & can't absorb. My re-check is in a couple of weeks & I'm eager to see where the D is.

If you are concerned about it, call your surgeon and ask him/her to run some additonal blood work. Without labs it's hard to say to add more or not.

I'd recommend also going to a orthopedic doctor to rule out pinched nerves and such.

Hi new to this board, but I am 28 months post-op.  I just switched PCP and the new one did some blood work and found out the my d level was way low, it was 28.  He started me on capules of D3 and told me to check back in 2 months for a recheck.  The other doctor never checked my d level.

I too have pain, numbness in my right arm down to my hands, and my othro dr says it is carpal tunnel, which it just might be, but it might also been the low d level too.

Anyway, I am glad that I checked this board as I am finding I am having some of the problems that everyone else is.

I lost 140 lbs in one year, then since the end of last year I have put back on 35 lbs.  I am trying to get it off again, but not having alot of luck.

Later
Kathleen Gregory

I had a similar pain in my left arm.. it hurt to move it, I mean ..it was a dead arm, I couldn't move it any direction...it would always hurt some, but then for days at a time I really just couldn't move it the pain was so bad. I FINALLY went to the dr about it, cause I wasn't able to do my weight training class with a dead arm.  He sent me to get X rays and blood work. I never went to do either cause shortly after the apt I got news that my insurance is all messed up, so none of it would be covered. I did however, and not for the specific reason of hoping it would help my arm but after being on this forum and seeing how important everyone thought taking your vitamins was, I started talking all my vitamins, a good multi, and everything else we're supposed to... and out of the blue my arm was hurting less and less...till a couple weeks ago I noticed it doesn't hurt at ALL anymore, and so far it has never come back...it was just recently that I connected it with a possibile vitamin deficiency of some sort. So yeah..for me I'm pretty convinced by now that that was what it was, I hadn't really taken any of my vitamins this WHOLE time!! So adding them perfectly every day I've been needing less caffeine and my arm stopped hurting! Connection?? Maybe!

Good luck!

leslee