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#474857 - 08/10/12 11:23 AM Re: Higher Vitamin D means less severe AS? [Re: drizzit]
Violeta Third_Degree_AS_Kicker Registered: 04/24/12 Posts: 273 Loc: Pennsylvania	It just hit me in the middle of the night last night that Vitamin D should be being produced in the skin, so it shouldn't have to be absorbed. But then I also had read that since it is a fat soluble vitamin, it needs emulsified (by bile) fat for something???? I don't know if it needs that emulsified fat at the skin level or when it's somewhere being processed in the body. I know it needs cholesterol at the skin level. And at one point it is processed by the liver, then it moves on to the kidneys. But I'm not sure at what point it hooks up with emulsified fat. The plot thickens....
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#474869 - 08/11/12 01:21 AM Re: Higher Vitamin D means less severe AS? [Re: Violeta]
rumble Royal_AS_kicker Registered: 01/31/09 Posts: 3781 Loc: NE Oklahoma	Originally Posted By: Violeta Originally Posted By: rumble Originally Posted By: Violeta Did anyone's doctor try to figure out why you were so low in Vitamin D? No. Only rectify the deficiency. That's good. Do you know yet if it's correcting the osteoporosis? My osteoporosis is hanging on the 'good' side of the cutoff, now -2.4, or osteopenia. I'm managing on Vit D and strontium citrate, which I've taken for 1.5 yrs. March '13 will be next DXA and hope to at least maintain that level or get a smidge better. _________________________ DX: psoriatic arthritis, osteoporosis, DDD, psoriasis Meds: MTX since Oct 2009, 15mg/week--Started Humira March 2013 Epidural steroid injections x4; Lumbar radiofreq ablation SIJ steroid injection and bilateral radiofreq ablation x4
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#474870 - 08/11/12 01:40 AM Re: Higher Vitamin D means less severe AS? [Re: drizzit]
rumble Royal_AS_kicker Registered: 01/31/09 Posts: 3781 Loc: NE Oklahoma	Don't know what this patient's problem is, but I verified a Vit D of 220 on a 79y/o lady!! Wow! There wasn't a problem with the sample, or the storage, or the instrument, or the reagent.... Either she is taking way too many supplements or there is a metabolic issue. High levels of vitamin D and calcium can cause calcification and damage to the kidneys and blood vessels. (for those who don't know me, I am a medical technologist and work in the chemistry section of a hospital/reference laboratory) _________________________ DX: psoriatic arthritis, osteoporosis, DDD, psoriasis Meds: MTX since Oct 2009, 15mg/week--Started Humira March 2013 Epidural steroid injections x4; Lumbar radiofreq ablation SIJ steroid injection and bilateral radiofreq ablation x4
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