Nathan92
05-10-14, 19:50
Possibly Wrong Place, If so Can you move it please / also if deemed fit can it be stickied for people?
The past few months I've not been feeling the best. Aching, Tiredness and I've had over my fair share of infections... I thought nothing of it so 2 weeks ago I went and spoke to the doctor.. I said look I feel like something has been missed, I'm aching all the time, I'm tired and I feel like I'm dying if I'm perfectly honest.
He was intrigued.. I asked him if he could do a blood test and check, he said I'll do one better, I'll do bloods, vitamin & minerals test. I thought well.. okay then? why vitamins and stuff.. I get enough food, he's probably sniffing up the wrong tree with minerals and vitamins..
A week later, bloods were taken and then this last week, "Nathan can you come to the surgery please Dr *** wants to see you".. Well I was ILL, I thought my doctor never wants to see me.. it must be something really wrong.
Friday I went and he sat me down, and started laughing.. I thought whats funny... he then said to me "Guess whats wrong with you" I said Anaemia? "Nope" he said... then he said "You'll never guess in a million years".. I continued to blirt out about 100 other illnesses I've read up on with the same symptoms.. he's turning red at this point in hysteria (baring in mind, this is a family friend and the doctor I've had since I was born). I said to him.. ha'way then tell me, and he goes, "hahaha your malnourished".
I sat and then the relief was unreal, then I started laughing. He said "the size of you, and your malnourished" (I'm 24 stone and 6ft 3).
I said so what specifically is wrong with me then, what am I low on, his reply was "Vitamin D is 22 nmol/l and Folic Acid is borderline"
I asked him what the Vitamin D should be and he said ideally it should be up in the hundreds, but the acceptable range is between 25 and 175, but anything below 50 is cause for concern and that I must have been eating the wrong stuff for a while for it to be that low.
I quizzed him for a good 20 minutes after that, asking if this ache and that ache could be because of the low vitamin d and folic acid levels, to get the reply "yep, because your bones need the vitamin d to help soak up the calcium and when your low on vitamin d, the calcium isn't distributed to the bones efficiently which is why you see older people all crouched over, because they have osteoporosis caused by vitamin d deficiency".
I write this post because I see countless threads about people aching and cramping. This for me is the cause (I've been given 30000iu Vitamin D (30000 internal units of vitamin d, twice a week for 3 months) and 5mg of folic acid a day for 56 days). It's worth asking your doctor because it's easy for people with anxiety to sit and panic and google their symptoms, but rarely does it give a simple answer of "possible vitamin / mineral deficiency" .
I hope everyone who reads this, gets something from it OR atleast those who themselves are aching and tired all the time. something as simple as the sunlight vitamin.
goodluck!
The past few months I've not been feeling the best. Aching, Tiredness and I've had over my fair share of infections... I thought nothing of it so 2 weeks ago I went and spoke to the doctor.. I said look I feel like something has been missed, I'm aching all the time, I'm tired and I feel like I'm dying if I'm perfectly honest.
He was intrigued.. I asked him if he could do a blood test and check, he said I'll do one better, I'll do bloods, vitamin & minerals test. I thought well.. okay then? why vitamins and stuff.. I get enough food, he's probably sniffing up the wrong tree with minerals and vitamins..
A week later, bloods were taken and then this last week, "Nathan can you come to the surgery please Dr *** wants to see you".. Well I was ILL, I thought my doctor never wants to see me.. it must be something really wrong.
Friday I went and he sat me down, and started laughing.. I thought whats funny... he then said to me "Guess whats wrong with you" I said Anaemia? "Nope" he said... then he said "You'll never guess in a million years".. I continued to blirt out about 100 other illnesses I've read up on with the same symptoms.. he's turning red at this point in hysteria (baring in mind, this is a family friend and the doctor I've had since I was born). I said to him.. ha'way then tell me, and he goes, "hahaha your malnourished".
I sat and then the relief was unreal, then I started laughing. He said "the size of you, and your malnourished" (I'm 24 stone and 6ft 3).
I said so what specifically is wrong with me then, what am I low on, his reply was "Vitamin D is 22 nmol/l and Folic Acid is borderline"
I asked him what the Vitamin D should be and he said ideally it should be up in the hundreds, but the acceptable range is between 25 and 175, but anything below 50 is cause for concern and that I must have been eating the wrong stuff for a while for it to be that low.
I quizzed him for a good 20 minutes after that, asking if this ache and that ache could be because of the low vitamin d and folic acid levels, to get the reply "yep, because your bones need the vitamin d to help soak up the calcium and when your low on vitamin d, the calcium isn't distributed to the bones efficiently which is why you see older people all crouched over, because they have osteoporosis caused by vitamin d deficiency".
I write this post because I see countless threads about people aching and cramping. This for me is the cause (I've been given 30000iu Vitamin D (30000 internal units of vitamin d, twice a week for 3 months) and 5mg of folic acid a day for 56 days). It's worth asking your doctor because it's easy for people with anxiety to sit and panic and google their symptoms, but rarely does it give a simple answer of "possible vitamin / mineral deficiency" .
I hope everyone who reads this, gets something from it OR atleast those who themselves are aching and tired all the time. something as simple as the sunlight vitamin.
goodluck!