Aromatase Inhibitors and Vitamin D

CypressCynthia
CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Ok, after having my vitamin D level drop to 25 on arimidex, I went to an endocrinologist. She prescribed 5000 IU D3 per day. Finally, my level is 55 (normal). More importantly, I am having less aches--especially less neck pain. Just thought I'd share my news.

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  • carkris
    carkris Member Posts: 4,553 Member
    glad your level improved and
    glad your level improved and you are feeling better. hopefully others will benenfit from this knowledge too
  • lynn1950
    lynn1950 Member Posts: 2,570
    carkris said:

    glad your level improved and
    glad your level improved and you are feeling better. hopefully others will benenfit from this knowledge too

    These vitamin D posts have
    These vitamin D posts have me back swallowing the horse pills and hoping. Thanks for sharing. xoxoxo Lynn
  • DebbyM
    DebbyM Member Posts: 3,289 Member
    carkris said:

    glad your level improved and
    glad your level improved and you are feeling better. hopefully others will benenfit from this knowledge too

    That is great that you feel
    That is great that you feel better. Vit D is very important for all of us to take.
  • Quiltngal
    Quiltngal Member Posts: 12
    Vitamin D3
    I've read a lot today about the benefits of Vit D 3...I had no idea! So glad your pain is subsiding.

    Can't wait to see the affects it has on me...also Magnesium with Vit D is essential and that along with calcium.

    The three seem to enhance one another for full benefit.

    VITACOST.com is an excellent source for supplements etc. NSI brand was recommended to me as the best buy and most efficient.
  • Megan M
    Megan M Member Posts: 3,000
    lynn1950 said:

    These vitamin D posts have
    These vitamin D posts have me back swallowing the horse pills and hoping. Thanks for sharing. xoxoxo Lynn

    Lol Lynn!

    Lol Lynn!
  • jk1952
    jk1952 Member Posts: 613
    Quiltngal said:

    Vitamin D3
    I've read a lot today about the benefits of Vit D 3...I had no idea! So glad your pain is subsiding.

    Can't wait to see the affects it has on me...also Magnesium with Vit D is essential and that along with calcium.

    The three seem to enhance one another for full benefit.

    VITACOST.com is an excellent source for supplements etc. NSI brand was recommended to me as the best buy and most efficient.

    I read recenly (I don't
    I read recenly (I don't think that it was here) that a study showed that taking vitamin D helps arthritis. I know my knees have been much better since I started taking a vitamin D supplement: I was quite deficient a couple years ago when I was first tested.

    Joyce
  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    jk1952 said:

    I read recenly (I don't
    I read recenly (I don't think that it was here) that a study showed that taking vitamin D helps arthritis. I know my knees have been much better since I started taking a vitamin D supplement: I was quite deficient a couple years ago when I was first tested.

    Joyce

    Keep testing and be patient
    I didn't believe that the 5000 per day that the endocrinologist wanted me to take would raise my level to a normal limit. I really believed that I would have to do the 50000 per week to jump start my level up to normal. But, after just 3 months, my level has come up nicely. She was right and I was wrong, so I am glad I followed her advice. More importantly to me is how much better I feel with my level now 55. I only have rare neck pain now. I was sleeping with a thermacare heating pad on my neck every night. Now that is a rare occurrence. I'm a believer that we really need to check our Vit D levels--especially if we are on one of the aromatase inhibitors (arimidex, aromasin or femara). Hope this helps someone else!
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member

    Keep testing and be patient
    I didn't believe that the 5000 per day that the endocrinologist wanted me to take would raise my level to a normal limit. I really believed that I would have to do the 50000 per week to jump start my level up to normal. But, after just 3 months, my level has come up nicely. She was right and I was wrong, so I am glad I followed her advice. More importantly to me is how much better I feel with my level now 55. I only have rare neck pain now. I was sleeping with a thermacare heating pad on my neck every night. Now that is a rare occurrence. I'm a believer that we really need to check our Vit D levels--especially if we are on one of the aromatase inhibitors (arimidex, aromasin or femara). Hope this helps someone else!

    I so agree that we all need
    I so agree that we all need to have our Vitamin D level checked. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
  • RufusG
    RufusG Member Posts: 1
    Information on Vitamin D
    Having high Vitamin D levels is probably one of the most important things that you can do to help avoid and cure cancer

    Here are some sources of information:

    www.grassrootshealth.org
    See the Documentation & D*facts sections for many articles, reports & videos.

    Download the presentation: Is it true ?

    Check the chart for Disease Incidence Prevention.
    This shows target levels of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D required to prevent many illnesses

    Download: Symposium in Print -Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective
    Shows how supplementation with Vitamin D & Calcium could reduce cancer by 77%

    www.ucsd.tv
    Watch the videos of a scientific conference held at University of California at San Diego
    Search by the name of the presenter or “Vitamin D”

    There is an excellent 30-minute introduction by Carole Baggerly
    There are overview presentations by Frank Garland, Robert Heaney & Michael Holick
    Other presentations are by Cedric Garland, Edward Gorham, David Sane & Donald L Trump

    Anyone suffering from Cancer should watch the presentations from Holick, Garland & Trump

    www.uvadvantage.org
    www.vitamindhealth.org
    Reports, factsheets, books and videos from Dr Michael Holick, Professor of medicine, dermatology, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University, USA.

    www.direct-ms.org/presentations.html
    There is an excellent 60 minute presentation on Prospects for Vitamin D Nutrition by Professor Reinhold Vieth about Vitamin D and how it relates to Cancer, Osteoporosis and Multiple Sclerosis.

    www.vitamindcouncil.org
    www.vitamind3world.com
    www.thevitamindcure.com
    Excellent overview information, with links to many other sources & websites worldwide
    Read the book by Dr James Dowd: The Vitamin D Cure

    www.vitamindandcholesterol.com
    www.healthresearchforum.org.uk
    Excellent source of UK-based information, including 3 online books by Dr Oliver Gillie
    Read the book by Dr David Grimes: Vitamin D & Cholesterol, The importance of the sun

    Hope this helps

    .
  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 Member Posts: 4,374 Member
    jk1952 said:

    I read recenly (I don't
    I read recenly (I don't think that it was here) that a study showed that taking vitamin D helps arthritis. I know my knees have been much better since I started taking a vitamin D supplement: I was quite deficient a couple years ago when I was first tested.

    Joyce

    I know that I seemed to get
    I know that I seemed to get more energy once I was prescribed Vitamin D. It really works!
  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    RufusG said:

    Information on Vitamin D
    Having high Vitamin D levels is probably one of the most important things that you can do to help avoid and cure cancer

    Here are some sources of information:

    www.grassrootshealth.org
    See the Documentation & D*facts sections for many articles, reports & videos.

    Download the presentation: Is it true ?

    Check the chart for Disease Incidence Prevention.
    This shows target levels of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D required to prevent many illnesses

    Download: Symposium in Print -Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective
    Shows how supplementation with Vitamin D & Calcium could reduce cancer by 77%

    www.ucsd.tv
    Watch the videos of a scientific conference held at University of California at San Diego
    Search by the name of the presenter or “Vitamin D”

    There is an excellent 30-minute introduction by Carole Baggerly
    There are overview presentations by Frank Garland, Robert Heaney & Michael Holick
    Other presentations are by Cedric Garland, Edward Gorham, David Sane & Donald L Trump

    Anyone suffering from Cancer should watch the presentations from Holick, Garland & Trump

    www.uvadvantage.org
    www.vitamindhealth.org
    Reports, factsheets, books and videos from Dr Michael Holick, Professor of medicine, dermatology, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University, USA.

    www.direct-ms.org/presentations.html
    There is an excellent 60 minute presentation on Prospects for Vitamin D Nutrition by Professor Reinhold Vieth about Vitamin D and how it relates to Cancer, Osteoporosis and Multiple Sclerosis.

    www.vitamindcouncil.org
    www.vitamind3world.com
    www.thevitamindcure.com
    Excellent overview information, with links to many other sources & websites worldwide
    Read the book by Dr James Dowd: The Vitamin D Cure

    www.vitamindandcholesterol.com
    www.healthresearchforum.org.uk
    Excellent source of UK-based information, including 3 online books by Dr Oliver Gillie
    Read the book by Dr David Grimes: Vitamin D & Cholesterol, The importance of the sun

    Hope this helps

    .

    Thanks for all the info!
    It may take me awhile but I will try and read them all ;-)
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member
    RufusG said:

    Information on Vitamin D
    Having high Vitamin D levels is probably one of the most important things that you can do to help avoid and cure cancer

    Here are some sources of information:

    www.grassrootshealth.org
    See the Documentation & D*facts sections for many articles, reports & videos.

    Download the presentation: Is it true ?

    Check the chart for Disease Incidence Prevention.
    This shows target levels of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D required to prevent many illnesses

    Download: Symposium in Print -Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective
    Shows how supplementation with Vitamin D & Calcium could reduce cancer by 77%

    www.ucsd.tv
    Watch the videos of a scientific conference held at University of California at San Diego
    Search by the name of the presenter or “Vitamin D”

    There is an excellent 30-minute introduction by Carole Baggerly
    There are overview presentations by Frank Garland, Robert Heaney & Michael Holick
    Other presentations are by Cedric Garland, Edward Gorham, David Sane & Donald L Trump

    Anyone suffering from Cancer should watch the presentations from Holick, Garland & Trump

    www.uvadvantage.org
    www.vitamindhealth.org
    Reports, factsheets, books and videos from Dr Michael Holick, Professor of medicine, dermatology, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University, USA.

    www.direct-ms.org/presentations.html
    There is an excellent 60 minute presentation on Prospects for Vitamin D Nutrition by Professor Reinhold Vieth about Vitamin D and how it relates to Cancer, Osteoporosis and Multiple Sclerosis.

    www.vitamindcouncil.org
    www.vitamind3world.com
    www.thevitamindcure.com
    Excellent overview information, with links to many other sources & websites worldwide
    Read the book by Dr James Dowd: The Vitamin D Cure

    www.vitamindandcholesterol.com
    www.healthresearchforum.org.uk
    Excellent source of UK-based information, including 3 online books by Dr Oliver Gillie
    Read the book by Dr David Grimes: Vitamin D & Cholesterol, The importance of the sun

    Hope this helps

    .

    Yes, thank you for all of
    Yes, thank you for all of those sites. I will try and read most of them too.
  • Alexis F
    Alexis F Member Posts: 3,598
    Quiltngal said:

    Vitamin D3
    I've read a lot today about the benefits of Vit D 3...I had no idea! So glad your pain is subsiding.

    Can't wait to see the affects it has on me...also Magnesium with Vit D is essential and that along with calcium.

    The three seem to enhance one another for full benefit.

    VITACOST.com is an excellent source for supplements etc. NSI brand was recommended to me as the best buy and most efficient.

    My Vit D level was low and
    My Vit D level was low and my oncologist put me on prescription strength D. I really felt a lot better in no time.

    Glad that it is helping you with your pain!