Vitamin D Deficiency??

Kiantae
Kiantae Member Posts: 29
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
As part of my annual review last November I came up as severely deficient in Vitamin D on my blood test. The normal range is around 50 and mine was 16. My doctor put me on intensive supplement treatment to span 3 months. A month later is when I got the call back from my mammo. Of course I started searching on Vitamin D and BC and there were a lot of articles mentioning a correlation between the two. I was wondering if others also had low Vitamin D levels? I go back next week to see where my levels are at now that I have completed taking the supplements.

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  • roseann4
    roseann4 Member Posts: 992 Member
    #2
    Yes.
    I had read that many of the women diagnosed with bc have low levels of vit. d3. That is the vitamin we get from the sun and certain foods. There is a great book, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer" which cover lots of interesting data.

    Roseann
  • jk1952
    jk1952 Member Posts: 613
    #3
    roseann4 said:

    Yes.
    I had read that many of the women diagnosed with bc have low levels of vit. d3. That is the vitamin we get from the sun and certain foods. There is a great book, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer" which cover lots of interesting data.

    Roseann

    I think that you'll find

    I think that you'll find that a lot of us have a vitamin D deficiency, but I think that is true for the general population, especially those who live in the north where the sun doesn't shine for months. My PCP started testing for vitamin D a while before most other doctors did: there are lots of problems being linkied to this deficiency.

    Joyce
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #4
    I've taken Vit D suppliments
    I've taken Vit D suppliments for years as it helps with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disease). Actually I have to admit that I'm more consistant in taking it during the winter as I don't get out in the sun as much due to our brutal weather here and there just isn't as much time that the sun is up anyway. (We lived in Puget Sound for 12 years where there is definately a lot less sun, time wise, and more 'gray' days during the winter but never had any problems there - not til we got to western So. Dak.) Vit D is also needed with calcium for healthy bones.

    It's connection with BC - I don't know anything about though.
  • lanie940
    lanie940 Member Posts: 490 Member
    #5
    YES, I do! From both having
    YES, I do! From both having the breast cancer and also the Celiac disease. I am taking calcitril D3) and also chewing those Viactiv's they have 500 Mg of Calcium and 500 mgs of vitamin D and 40 mg of K.
  • lanie940
    lanie940 Member Posts: 490 Member
    #6
    Rague said:

    I've taken Vit D suppliments
    I've taken Vit D suppliments for years as it helps with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disease). Actually I have to admit that I'm more consistant in taking it during the winter as I don't get out in the sun as much due to our brutal weather here and there just isn't as much time that the sun is up anyway. (We lived in Puget Sound for 12 years where there is definately a lot less sun, time wise, and more 'gray' days during the winter but never had any problems there - not til we got to western So. Dak.) Vit D is also needed with calcium for healthy bones.

    It's connection with BC - I don't know anything about though.

    The can of Viactiv has a
    The can of Viactiv has a pink lid. supposed to be good for breast health. Then I heard on Good Morning America that taking an aspirin 3-5 times a week is good to for stopping re-occurances of BC.
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member
    #7
    lanie940 said:

    YES, I do! From both having
    YES, I do! From both having the breast cancer and also the Celiac disease. I am taking calcitril D3) and also chewing those Viactiv's they have 500 Mg of Calcium and 500 mgs of vitamin D and 40 mg of K.

    It seems like a lot of us
    It seems like a lot of us are low in Vit D. You can have it checked with a blood test. That is how I found out that I was low in it.
  • Cairmaid
    Cairmaid Member Posts: 64
    #8
    lanie940 said:

    YES, I do! From both having
    YES, I do! From both having the breast cancer and also the Celiac disease. I am taking calcitril D3) and also chewing those Viactiv's they have 500 Mg of Calcium and 500 mgs of vitamin D and 40 mg of K.

    Me, too.
    I'll be starting a 3-month intensive dosage tomorrow (50,000 units once a week). My doctor said Vit D deficiency is very common in breast cancer patients, especially living in the upper midwest. We get a lot of sun but it's so cold for so much of the year, we stay bundled up (or indoors) and sunshine rarely meets skin :-) Vitamin D has many more benefits than I ever imagined.

    I bought Viactiv a couple of years ago but kept forgetting to take them. Two months ago, my PCP told me to start taking both calcium and vitamin D but I kept forgetting about them, too (or had some other excuse because the calcium pills are so big). My husband said to set my iPod touch to beep at me every time I'm supposed to take medicine :-)
  • TxLady
    TxLady Member Posts: 37
    #9
    Yes
    Just received the news from my oncologist today - severely deficient in vit D. I have to take super dose of vit d supplements for the next 2 months.. then I will retest.

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