Vitamin D

Am deficient in Vitamin D (22, when normal starts around 40). Anyone have luck absorbing a specific king of vitamin D? I take enough, just not absorbing it.

Are you taking D3?  Well, there's sunlight.  That's the way we are supposed to get D.  Then another choice that is looking quite positive is the D/Calcium patches from PatchMD.  If you decide to order there is usually a 40% off promo code.  You just have to search for it.

Julie had better luck absorbing D3 when she added vitamin K2 to her regimen. Might be worth a shot.

--gina

Thanks! I'm going to try this first!

if you are taking dry Vit D3 and still are having issues bringing up your Vit D, get VitD3 injections, any Dr can RX that at a compounding pharmacy, suggest starting out at 450KIU dose test again at 3 months then see where you are.  Dosing and frequency will vary per person.

Do you know if the dry tablets or the liquid tablets are absorbed more easily. I assumed it was the liquid gel tablets but not sure.

If it's a gel cap it's usually fat based and that's what we malabsorb so you are wasting some money.  Whenever possible you wan****er miscible tablets.

I'm taking 50,000IU of Vitamin D from vitalady.com; how do I know if it''s water miscible--it's a capsule.

That's the right stuff

Vitalady resells the biotech 50k IU so that is what the majority of us use. You just want to be sure to avoid the gelcaps.
If you opened one of the capsules you would see a powder or if you left it in a water glass it would eventually dissolve both the capsule and the powder into the water..