Last winter, I wound up sick due to low vitamin D. We are talking "had to sit while making a simple dinner" sort of sick, headaches and backaches and so on. Now, stronger vitamin D pills are prescription here, lower-dose aren't. I got prescription pills to take for 90 days. I had a blood test after 1.5 to 2 months (earlier than initially thought, but the doctor was curious.
Not only were my vitamin D levels good, but I felt much better. Better than I had in months. I still take the lower dose pills to prevent such a thing. I have the choice to get sun during the summer - at least 15 minutes a day with sun on more than just my face. Alas, I find the temperatures too cold to do that all the time (I live in Norway, summers are chilly). On the other hand, my levels are still good (had them tested last month per doctor's orders).
Now, it might take a bit longer to actually repair damage done by low vitamin D, but as far as how I felt - it was much quicker.
I live at about 42 deg. N, and last winter I spent some time in Florida for the first time. It seemed like the light had a positive effect.
I read something a long time ago that suggested if you are in need of more sun exposure, it's best to get it near noon, because when the sun is low, it provides relatively more of the cancer causing UV and less of the therapeutic. Of course, in the northern parts of the world in the winter, that's not so easy.
No, but that was the soonest I got lab confirmation. I was feeling Loads better within 2 weeks. I could stand making dinner. Backache and headache disappeared. And so on.
Last winter, I wound up sick due to low vitamin D. We are talking "had to sit while making a simple dinner" sort of sick, headaches and backaches and so on. Now, stronger vitamin D pills are prescription here, lower-dose aren't. I got prescription pills to take for 90 days. I had a blood test after 1.5 to 2 months (earlier than initially thought, but the doctor was curious.
Not only were my vitamin D levels good, but I felt much better. Better than I had in months. I still take the lower dose pills to prevent such a thing. I have the choice to get sun during the summer - at least 15 minutes a day with sun on more than just my face. Alas, I find the temperatures too cold to do that all the time (I live in Norway, summers are chilly). On the other hand, my levels are still good (had them tested last month per doctor's orders).
Now, it might take a bit longer to actually repair damage done by low vitamin D, but as far as how I felt - it was much quicker.