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Vitamin D in a Scottish winter

Started 14 June 2026 · 7 replies · 51 hearts · read 677 times

TedIpswich, UK · 14 June 2026
1 month ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Vitamin D in a Scottish winter

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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BramSheffield, UK
#1

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#2

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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TinukeManchester, UK
#3

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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BridieWexford, IE
#4

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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DoraUtrecht, NL
#5

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#6

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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RaviLeicester, UK
#7

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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