Hi Catherine: sorry I answered earlier this evening but should have hit "reply". Wanted to add to what I wrote earlier this evening, that in Nov 2012 I was at a score of 59 in my D test. I'm aiming for the high end of the D score of 80. It's not easy getting there. It's difficult "filling" the "empty Vitamin D hormone tank". It takes awhile. But it certainly has given me my quality of life back. I read the Vitamin D Council (of San Luis Obispo's) monthly newsletter and do my own research. In my latitude on the planet I'm at latitude 38. At that latitude, unless one supplments, one will never make enough D on the skin from the sun and therefore supplementation is necessary. D has not cured me but it took away the horrible pain of LPR. I think people who live above the 37th latitude are at great risk of all types of illness and I think part of LPR is a constellation of health issues that come together. I still come back to the question of why babies and children get LPR and feel that there has got to be one common denominator. And the low Vitamin D hormone score appears to be the common denominator. I'm at a place in my research where I wonder if decades of low vitimin D causes permanent damage that can't be "cured". If we can figure out why the UES goes "limp" we can try to figure out a way to stop the micro acid spray from hitting our throats. Meanwhile, keeping an alkaline diet, probiotics, Vitamin D3 drops, Tums and Gaviscon are how I'm treating myself. Yes, lets hope the LINX system works. LPR is like being a severe burn patient except the burn agent never stops hitting the throat. In my opinion it is a seriouos anatomical problem that most Drs just don't get how horrible the pain is.
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Hi Catherine: sorry I answered earlier this evening but should have hit "reply". Wanted to add to what I wrote earlier this evening, that in Nov 2012 I was at a score of 59 in my D test. I'm aiming for the high end of the D score of 80. It's not easy getting there. It's difficult "filling" the "empty Vitamin D hormone tank". It takes awhile. But it certainly has given me my quality of life back. I read the Vitamin D Council (of San Luis Obispo's) monthly newsletter and do my own research. In my latitude on the planet I'm at latitude 38. At that latitude, unless one supplments, one will never make enough D on the skin from the sun and therefore supplementation is necessary. D has not cured me but it took away the horrible pain of LPR. I think people who live above the 37th latitude are at great risk of all types of illness and I think part of LPR is a constellation of health issues that come together. I still come back to the question of why babies and children get LPR and feel that there has got to be one common denominator. And the low Vitamin D hormone score appears to be the common denominator. I'm at a place in my research where I wonder if decades of low vitimin D causes permanent damage that can't be "cured". If we can figure out why the UES goes "limp" we can try to figure out a way to stop the micro acid spray from hitting our throats. Meanwhile, keeping an alkaline diet, probiotics, Vitamin D3 drops, Tums and Gaviscon are how I'm treating myself. Yes, lets hope the LINX system works. LPR is like being a severe burn patient except the burn agent never stops hitting the throat. In my opinion it is a seriouos anatomical problem that most Drs just don't get how horrible the pain is.
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