People. To understand anything about an overdose of d, you’d have to know what is actually in your bloodstream. It’s not about your dosage. Everyone has a certain therapeutic dose to get you over 60 in your blood, the best amount to have in terms of health. For fighting disease or cancer you’d probably be better off with over 80 on your test results.
I was taking 2000 units all summer, plus some sun, and got tested. My levels were only 24, very low. No wonder I got the flu last year!
I upped my dose of D3 to 10,000 units, and after a few months, got tested again. Only 49, still too low! Now I am on 15,000 units. I hope I’m getting closer to the necessary therapeutic dose. Everyone is different, and you have to all stop bitching about overdose because it cannot happen if you don’t have the therapeutic amount of 60+ in your blood yet. Get tested. It’s not about dose alone.
This is speculation, but...
Vitamin D in hard tablet form may not dissolve quickly enough. I use gel caps.
It's supposed to be taken with a meal and I do that but I also take some that is in caps of 1,000 mg of fish oil and 1,000 IU of vitamin D. Maybe that helps but I don't know.
Quite correct. And if your doctor finds you have a deficiency, he’s liable to write you a prescription.
And in that form, he might have you taking one per day for two weeks, but not the measly 400 or even 1000 units.
Prescription Vit D comes in 50,000 unit tabs
And why is it up to you to decide that people who cannot tolerate Vitamin D supplements should not participate in this thread?
Just recently there were articles in the news that SEVERE KIDNEY DAMAGE can result if you do NOT need Vitamin D and you follow the Online-Vitamin-D-Panacea-Crowd and take large amounts, because "EVERYONE" needs it and "nobody" EVER gets a vitamin D overdose.