So happy to know this message board has helped some people with LPR. My latest update is that I got my hormone D levels to 90...I wanted to get it to the highest end of D levels. I have dropped my D intake to 6,000 IU a day and from mid-April to mid Sept I will drop it to 5,000 IU and get in the sun at high noon for 10-15 minutes a day. I feel great! Still have minor wisps of LPR but there are times that it disappears completely. What a quality of life saver Vitamin D hormone is! I thank my lucky stars I never gave up and did my own research. What has become apparent to me by anedotal examples is that in my opinion and personal observation, many of the illness we all suffer from are caused by low D. They present differently in people, but most illness are direcly linked back to low D levels. My mother-in-law was told in front of her 3 grown sons by the Dr, "why did you come into the ER room?! Your dying. There is nothing we can do for you. Die at home." My husband and his brothers were in shock at the advise the Dr gave. They asked the sons to sign off on any further care for her. When I found out about it, I thought, if D helped me, could it help my mother-in-law? I told my husband, on a hunch, ask the Dr to take your mother off as many medications as possible and put her on 5,000 IU of D a day. My mother-in-law was so weak she couldn't get up or hold a spoon or cup to drink. She was 87 at that time She was released after two weeks to go home and die. To our surprise my mother-in-law has slowly gotten better. We are all stunned in the family. Next, my brother-in-law was visiting for Christmas and stayed a few days over night. When he got up the 1st morning of his stay we asked him how he slept. He didn't want to complain but said that his sleeping pills didn't work and he was up awake most of the night. That caught my attention. I wondered if D was his silent problem. I thought it was worth pursuing it a bit more. So I asked him, "how long have you been taking sleeping pills?" He said 10 years. I asked him how else did he feel? He said he couldn't do more than 1 minute on the treadmill and he felt so tired and no energy. I said to him, "Mike, would you do something on a hunch? Would you call your Dr as soon as you get home and don't tell him why, just ask to have a D test waiting for you at the lab. After you take you lab take start taking 5,000 IU of D a day." To my surprise my brother-in-law did it! He called me 3 days after he got home and asked to speak to me. He said, "are you a Dr?!!!!" I said, what's up? He said, I did what you recommended and got a D test. My level came back 11! And my Dr flipped out and has put me on magadoses of D!" I was struck that my hunch was correct. There are other examples of this with my friends and mother I could talk about but I now suspect low D is central to many many of the full range of illnesses we all suffer from. I'm convinced that levels of D should be tested for life, from when we are in utero until the day we die. It is central to good quality of health and life.
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So happy to know this message board has helped some people with LPR. My latest update is that I got my hormone D levels to 90...I wanted to get it to the highest end of D levels. I have dropped my D intake to 6,000 IU a day and from mid-April to mid Sept I will drop it to 5,000 IU and get in the sun at high noon for 10-15 minutes a day. I feel great! Still have minor wisps of LPR but there are times that it disappears completely. What a quality of life saver Vitamin D hormone is! I thank my lucky stars I never gave up and did my own research. What has become apparent to me by anedotal examples is that in my opinion and personal observation, many of the illness we all suffer from are caused by low D. They present differently in people, but most illness are direcly linked back to low D levels. My mother-in-law was told in front of her 3 grown sons by the Dr, "why did you come into the ER room?! Your dying. There is nothing we can do for you. Die at home." My husband and his brothers were in shock at the advise the Dr gave. They asked the sons to sign off on any further care for her. When I found out about it, I thought, if D helped me, could it help my mother-in-law? I told my husband, on a hunch, ask the Dr to take your mother off as many medications as possible and put her on 5,000 IU of D a day. My mother-in-law was so weak she couldn't get up or hold a spoon or cup to drink. She was 87 at that time She was released after two weeks to go home and die. To our surprise my mother-in-law has slowly gotten better. We are all stunned in the family. Next, my brother-in-law was visiting for Christmas and stayed a few days over night. When he got up the 1st morning of his stay we asked him how he slept. He didn't want to complain but said that his sleeping pills didn't work and he was up awake most of the night. That caught my attention. I wondered if D was his silent problem. I thought it was worth pursuing it a bit more. So I asked him, "how long have you been taking sleeping pills?" He said 10 years. I asked him how else did he feel? He said he couldn't do more than 1 minute on the treadmill and he felt so tired and no energy. I said to him, "Mike, would you do something on a hunch? Would you call your Dr as soon as you get home and don't tell him why, just ask to have a D test waiting for you at the lab. After you take you lab take start taking 5,000 IU of D a day." To my surprise my brother-in-law did it! He called me 3 days after he got home and asked to speak to me. He said, "are you a Dr?!!!!" I said, what's up? He said, I did what you recommended and got a D test. My level came back 11! And my Dr flipped out and has put me on magadoses of D!" I was struck that my hunch was correct. There are other examples of this with my friends and mother I could talk about but I now suspect low D is central to many many of the full range of illnesses we all suffer from. I'm convinced that levels of D should be tested for life, from when we are in utero until the day we die. It is central to good quality of health and life.
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