Hi Kathryn,

I have the proper maintenance dose mentioned probably over 1000 times on my site. Just go look on a few vitamin d pages and you'll find links to the right vitamin d dosage or the Vitamin d therapy page or you'll find some of the over 1000 times that I've already answered that same question if you browse around a bit.

Your big problem was thinking that ANYTHING was going to 'be your miracle'. While YES, it's extremely likely that you have a magnesium deficiency as well as your vitamin d deficiency (you MUST be sufficient in magnesium in order to absorb magnesium), it's ALSO likely that you are eating terrible, are probably gluten intolerant and hence aren't absorbing, are eating toxins in your foods, aren't getting omega 3 fatty acids, are still eating 'vegetable oils' that will ruin your health and cause pain, aren't eating enough 'real' food and are still eating processed foods, aren't filtering your water to get all of the chlorine and fluoride out- but you want ONE pill per week for a couple of weeks to fix you! You need to be realistic and take a good hard look at your diet and lifestyle, read my sites and make some SERIOUS SERIOUS changes. No time like the present.

Ummmm, Elisabeth, what part of 'Take Vitamin D3 instead of Prescription Vitamin D' did you somehow hear 'Don't take vitamin d at all??" Your comment makes no sense. I tell people every day to take vitamin d and to get their levels to between 50 to 80 ng/ml. I have NEVER EVER EVER EVER said 'Don't take vitamin d'. The REASON that your multi 'isn't working' (I'm not sure what you are expecting it to 'work' for?) is because it has 400 to 800 IU's of vitamin d. You need to take between 7000 to 10,000 IU's of vitamin D3 per day to bring up your levels. Remember that is Vitamin D3 and NOT prescription vitamin d. However, many of your symptoms are likely due to magnesium deficiency as well, and you are going to feel HORRIBLE if you don't start taking magnesium like I outline OVER AND OVER again on my site.

It\'s not that the d3 isn\'t \'working\' for you, it\'s that you are not taking enough. When they take you \'off the d2\' as you say, then you are taking less total vitamin d. Just take a higher total amount of d3, It\'s probably bouncing around so much because vitamin d2 has a shorter \'half life\'. It wears off quicker. Take the proper amount of d3 and it\'ll last longer in your system and won\'t bounce around all over the place so quickly.

Oh, and by the way. Another reason that I determined that this was complete hogwash was because, being an ER nurse, I was in the unique position of being able to test dozens of urine samples every day. And the results of testing the urine of the sickest people and the healthiest people that came into the ER door was that it was COMPLETELY RANDOM what the pH was. I might have a kid with a cut finger and a lady on a ventilator with the same urine pH. Then one kid who fell off a skateboard might have a pH of 5 or 6 while the next kid the same age who fell off his skateboard had a pH of 8. There was simply ZERO correlation between the pH of 'healthy' people and EXTREMELY sick people. Sorry, but I'll take my sampling of hundreds of healthy and sick people versus your sample of TWO anyday....

So, you are saying that you can alkalinize the digestive tract without alkalinizing the body? And you are saying that the 'residue' in the digestive tract is alkaline or acid? And THAT has something to do with health? HOGWASH!!! Please read the works of Weston A. Price. This alkaline/acid bunk was being thrown around during his time too and the PERFECTLY HEALTHY native cultures that he studied ate MASSIVELY 'acid forming' foods like butter, eggs, meat, etc.- sometimes to the exclusion of everything else and sometimes saw ZERO vegetables for much of their lives. But as long as they didn't eat PROCESSED FOODS they remained healthy. It's SUGAR that caused your cancer, as many studies have shown, NOT 'acid forming foods', whatever that means. So, sorry but YOU are confusing your science. Stop eating sugar and processed foods and cancer rates will go down dramatically. Dr. Price thoroughly debunked this. As far as you 'not believing me' about people with BLOOD ph's just SLIGHTLY outside the range of 7.35-7.45 being VERY sick, that's your problem. Ask ANY respiratory threapist, ICU or ER doctor or ICU nurse and they will tell you the exact same thing. If your BLOOD ph range is even SLIGHTLY outside the norm, there is something VERY wrong and you will be very sick. I WORKED with Arterial Blood Gas measurements for OVER A DECADE- so I have some authority on this, and it's why I began questioning this 'alkaline/acid' thing to begin with. As I get more and more experience working with actual people, the more I disbelieve the theory. It doesn't work in real life, people who eat 'acid forming' foods but not processed foods can be ENTIRELY healthy and have ZERO cancer rates, no heart disease, no diabetes and little degenerative disease in general. Sorry, go back to the drawing board. It's PROCESSED food that is the problem, and that has ZERO to do with 'alkaline/acid' balance. So, please show me your independant peer reviewed studies that show that "it has indeed been demonstrated over and over again that a too acidic body provides a lovely environment for cancers". You HAVE no peer reviewed studies on this, just a bunch of people who 'believe' it. It's a belief and not science. Good luck.

Because when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Doctors have one tool, a prescription pad. D2 is the only prescription vitamin d, so doctors use their prescription pad. Plus, most people want their health care to be taken care of by their insurance and insurance won't cover d3 because it's not a drug. D2 is a drug. So, it's the expectations of both the doctor and the patient that lead to the problem. People need to take more responsibility for their health AND be willing to pay for it themselves and doctors would be more willing to NOT write a prescription. It does both ways.

Yeehaw! The link didn't work when I tried to read the article. I'm VERY happy not to give more traffic to that guy's article.

I'm a BIG believer in a gluten free diet and recommend it for ALL of my clients no matter what their health problems. I sometimes 'take it for granted' that people are already on a gluten free diet because I recommend it so much for anything and everything. Thanks for mentioning that and reminding me. Great advice and I'm so glad that a gluten free diet helped you out. Yeah!

So, what are you waiting for. If you have symptoms of low magnesium then TAKE MAGNESIUM. Simply go by your symptoms to determine your need for magnesium, you do NOT NEED your doctor to help you determine if you need magnesium and how much to take. Please read my page on getting the right magnesium dosage.
http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-dosag...

Stop giving away control of your health to your doctor, take control and get on some magnesium if you think that you need magnesium! It's REALLY that simple.