Frist tri low Vitamin D

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Has anyone had experience with this? I am taking 1k units on top of prenatals every other day. I am really worried about things because I had a bleed at 6 weeks and baby was fine had all its parts and a heartbeat. I have had low potassium, elevated liver enzymes, and the low viatamin D. I feel sick a lot.. smells are terrible... looking at certain things I gag like a fool... sore boobs. I mean I have all my symptoms I just feel scared and not well enough informed and worried about my baby. :cry:
 
I wanted to add that regular doctors suggested 50k units once a week OB suggested another 400 on top of my prenatal I am taking 1000 every other day after I asked the OB.
 
I live in NY, so I am always low on vit D in winter.... I was given 50000 iue of vit D for 8 weeks to bring me up now daily I take 4000 iue on top of my prenatal vits and calcium. Most people are very defficiant in vit D, its not someething to get freaked out about, if your taking it now thats a great step!!
 
Im low have been since checked in summer. Crazy low. But im not on a high amount. The one i was takibg was 1000 but the consulant said one safe to take was one with calcium in too and was 800. I dont understand that
 
I have been upped to 2400 a day from my midwife my baby is healthy and I am going to a specialist over my liver issues.
 
Welp, I live in Portland, Oregon, where we go months without seeing much of the sun ("the daystar, it burns!"). We are all low on Vitamin D. I personally take 5k units a day in addition to the 400 iu in my daily vitamin, and I'm not pregnant!!!

Pretty sure if D3 deficit was a big problem in pregnancy our birth rate here in the Pacific NW would be low indeed. :) Don't worry about it.
 
You need to make sure you are taking vitamin d3 and not vitamin d2. (The huge 50,000iu weekly doses are often d2, and it is simply not absorbed into your body very well.) It also depend on how low your levels are. My levels were originally 28 and they tried to put me on that huge crappy dose of d2. I said I'd just supplement myself with d3, so I started taking 5,000iy daily. I wasn't always good about remembering, but I tried. Unfortunately, when my new doctor ran my levels again a couple years later, my levels had only risen to 36. That's just above deficiency level (depending on who you ask), but it is far from optimal. My doctor told me to take 10,000iu per day for th time being. That was last month, and coincidentally that is also the month I conceived after a year of trying. Vitamin d is important for so many function in our body, and scientists are only now becoming aware of what a wide range of functions those are.

I wouldn't stress over it. You've made it to 20 weeks already! However, I would definitely start taking a lot more d3 than you currently are. 1,000iu every other day (plus whatever little bit is in your prenatal) is hardly enough to maintain already optimal levels, and is nowhere near enough to bring up levels that are currently deficient.
 
Everyone is low on vit D it's really not a big deal. So am I! Very low. Just take supplements
 
While not a "big" deal it actually has many long and short term health affects and I would definitely try to get them back up to where they are. Once I got mine back up I was shocked at how much better I felt. Doctors now realize that it is a lot more important than they used to think.
 
I was taking 2.4k a day and my levels went back to normal I dropped off taking it about a month ago when I got the flu got sick of taking a million pills a day. Maybe not the best idea but still taking it here and there. I am fine baby is fine I will be 27 weeks here in 2 days. I am not gonna stress. :flower:
 

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