Posted by Tomatheus on January 12, 2014, at 9:58:15
In reply to Re: Anybody here take vitamin D3 for ) 6 months?, posted by Chris O on January 12, 2014, at 3:01:36
Chris,
Thank you for your post. In the time that's passed since I started this thread, I've ended up stopping vitamin D again because my fatigue actually seemed to become worse than it typically is at baseline. For whatever reason, it seems that I seem to respond somewhat favorably to vitamin D in the short run, but not so well in the long run.
It's too bad that supplementing with vitamin D didn't seem to help with your depression. There seems to be some thinking that vitamin D might be low in depressive disorders not so much because a low level of the vitamin causes depression but more because some of the behaviors and symptoms that come along with depression (isolation, sleeping during peak vitamin D hours) cause individuals with depression to get less sun and thus less vitamin D. The fact that you (and I) didn't respond to vitamin D after taking the vitamin for some time would seem, from my perspective, to argue in favor of the notion that depression might cause vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency, instead of it being the other way around.
Anyway, thank you for responding to my thread. It was helpful to read of your experience with vitamin D supplementation, although I wish that you could have noticed better results.
Take care,
TomatheusHas an affective psychosis with strong symptoms of fatigue, hypersomnia, and difficulty concentrating
Taking Abilify & supplements
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