[Teddy]

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Hi Deadname,

I believe you have taken 1000 micrograms (mcg or ug) of Vitamin D! Even then your daily amount (3000 umicrograms) is much over safe limit, which is, depending on the nutritional expert or doctor you ask, 100-250 micrograms a day. The amount you wrote here, 3000 milligrams/day, would have taken you pretty fast to hospital. Vitamin D is very necessary, but too much is too much.

Huge amounts of vitamin D you seem to be taking can really mess up your body over time. Also, there's no need to divide that dose to two or three times/day because it isn't eliminated very fast at all. Some say you can take 7 x daily dose once a week and the effect will be roughly same as daily taking it, because body stores it. That storage phenomena is also why huge overdoses cause problems with delay.

Hugs,

Teddy

Hello Teddy,

Thanks very much for the input. I absolutely meant micrograms, I will edit my first post to make sure there is no confusion. Do we think that a once a day dose of 3,000 mcg would be more beneficial than a 3x a day approach? If so I'd be interesting in trying it out. Morning, I'd assume to simulate getting morning sun? I am living in Canada we have a hard time with vit d in general. I am using vit d3 in gel capsules if that provides further context.

Regards, 

Deadname

Hi Deadname,

I think you should not take too much D-vitamin. It accumulates to body. According to Mayo clinics, 60 000 IU = 1500 mcg has caused poisoning in several months. You should get all possible advantages from sensible doses and  then not taking chances of getting for example kidney stones which can be very painful. 

Personally I wouldn't exceed 250 mcg or 10 000 IU a day. Please check also if your vitamin's strength is given in mcg or IU. they differ by a factor of 40. That's a huge difference in the numerical value!

-Teddy