A small study showing that high rates of vitamin D can help to maintain remission for Crohn's patients suggests (to me at least) that maintaining a higher 25(OH)D level (above 40 ng/ml) may also be beneficial for MC patients. In the study, one group took 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily (for 12 months) and the other group took 1,000 IU daily. As you will see if you read the lead article at the link below, the mechanism by which higher levels of vitamin D help maintain remission appears (to me at least) to be by helping to control/prevent leaky gut.
http://www.microscopiccolitisfoundation ... s-new.html
Tex
High Rates Of Vitamin D Help Maintain Remission From Crohn's
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High Rates Of Vitamin D Help Maintain Remission From Crohn's
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Great link! Thank you!
Forwarded it so my son who promptly replied with " I know, I know." Hoping something other than the nagging mom will keep him taking the bottles I continue to send him. I miss being able to watch over his meds now that he' s on his own. I just started sending magnesium too. At least there's a better chance of him taking it if keeps being delivered. Gotta love Amazon.
Forwarded it so my son who promptly replied with " I know, I know." Hoping something other than the nagging mom will keep him taking the bottles I continue to send him. I miss being able to watch over his meds now that he' s on his own. I just started sending magnesium too. At least there's a better chance of him taking it if keeps being delivered. Gotta love Amazon.
Deb
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2007 CC
2013 thyroid cancer- total thyroidectomy
2013 Hashimoto's - numbers always "normal"
2017 Lyme's Disease
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2007 CC
2013 thyroid cancer- total thyroidectomy
2013 Hashimoto's - numbers always "normal"
2017 Lyme's Disease
Hey Tex:
The blog post you wrote says "The average level increased from 29 ng/ml (73 nmol/L) to 64 ng/ml (161 nmol/L) after taking 10,000 IU daily for 12 months."
I just looked up what my last Vitamin D test results were and they came back 41.00 pg/mL. Lab says 18-72 is normal range. I found a calculator that trys to turn pg/mL into ng/ml and it says .041. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks
The blog post you wrote says "The average level increased from 29 ng/ml (73 nmol/L) to 64 ng/ml (161 nmol/L) after taking 10,000 IU daily for 12 months."
I just looked up what my last Vitamin D test results were and they came back 41.00 pg/mL. Lab says 18-72 is normal range. I found a calculator that trys to turn pg/mL into ng/ml and it says .041. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks
-Kelly
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I thank God that He led me to this forum and I thank Him for you.
Heart Palpitations 12/2013
Urticaria 2015
Symptoms for 5 years prior to 6/2016 diagnosis CD & LC
Hi, Kelly,
You're not doing anything wrong — it's your doctor who slipped up.
Obviously your doctor isn't accustomed to checking vitamin D levels, or else she or he accidentally selected the wrong vitamin D test. She/he ordered a test for 1,25(OH)2 D, which is the active form of vitamin D3. All that result tells you is that your body appears to be converting the inactive form of vitamin D into the active form so that it can be used by the cells of the body. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you anything useful about your actual vitamin D level, which is measured by the 25(OH)D test.
The problem with ordering the 1,25(OH)2 D test instead of the 25(OH)D (aka 25-hydroxy D) test is that when our immune system is working very hard (such as when fighting an IBD), our body can be almost out of the inactive form of vitamin D, but the active form may be at or near the top of the "normal" range because the demand for it is so high. IOW, our vitamin D supply is stored as the inactive form, so that's what we need to keep track of. The active form level will take care of itself, provide that we have plenty of the inactive form available.
Tex
You're not doing anything wrong — it's your doctor who slipped up.
Obviously your doctor isn't accustomed to checking vitamin D levels, or else she or he accidentally selected the wrong vitamin D test. She/he ordered a test for 1,25(OH)2 D, which is the active form of vitamin D3. All that result tells you is that your body appears to be converting the inactive form of vitamin D into the active form so that it can be used by the cells of the body. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you anything useful about your actual vitamin D level, which is measured by the 25(OH)D test.The problem with ordering the 1,25(OH)2 D test instead of the 25(OH)D (aka 25-hydroxy D) test is that when our immune system is working very hard (such as when fighting an IBD), our body can be almost out of the inactive form of vitamin D, but the active form may be at or near the top of the "normal" range because the demand for it is so high. IOW, our vitamin D supply is stored as the inactive form, so that's what we need to keep track of. The active form level will take care of itself, provide that we have plenty of the inactive form available.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.