As I changed races in Me-hee-co last week something I read in Stephanie Seneff's blog post on VitD and sunscreens, etc. that got me thinking about my negative vitamin D experience a few years back. For those who haven't read me drop a comment on it, here's the Cliff's Notes version. I rather foolishly decided to jump on the megadoses of VitD bandwagon a few years back and began taking somewhere in the 5000-10000 IU/day range. I started getting weird "dizzy spells" but only when lying down and shifting positions (like rolling over). I also had my first ever "high" BP reading at my "well woman" doc visit. So I figured I should stop taking all supps and sort that out. I've since added back in the other supps and identified it was the D. I now only take 1000 IU and no more than 2000 IU, definitely not daily (currently I'm experimenting with whether the Estroven is doing anything at this point and it has D in it).
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