I know this is lengthy but if you wouldn't mind reading and responding I would greatly appreciate it!!!
Hello all!! I am "somewhat" new to this forum. Reason being, I have been reading your posts for months but have finally decided to join and share my story. Well, to my knowledge, all of these symptoms started late summer 2011. I began to notice that day to day I was not feeling well at all. I became nervous because I did not know what was wrong. I've seen the phrase used, "I feel like I'm dying" and honestly that is the way I felt. If I can recall, I've had certain signs in my body for a few years that has lead up to being this discovery of low vitaman d. However, they seem to have really began to affect my body tremendously these past 7 months. Not sure if it had anything to do with my grandmother passing away, stress with having to move and just dealing with life in general. I also have a 16 month old daughter and husband that are a handful also. Anyway, I began going to the doctor, and I felt kind of crazy because they would ask what is wrong, and I wanted to say everything!!! My head hurt, my back hurt, my chest hurt, my shoulder blades were in pain, my stomach hurt, just pain throughout my entire body. Of course my primary doc, wanted to say anxiety and prescribed meds but in the back of my mind I knew something was up. This started to affect my personal life because I felt like any small thing in my body meant something was wrong, and I began to google everything!! I've told myself I have everything from a brain tumor, to signs of a stroke, to cancer, and the list goes on and on!! Finally I was referred to an internal specialist, who ran bloodwork and FINALLY informed me that I had a vitamin D level of 8 and the norm should be 30!!! I could not believe it!! They prescribed me meds which was 50,000 IU once a week, but in the back of my mind I wondered why was this the case. What would cause such a low number??? Of course this doc just wanted to give me meds and be done. But I still wanted more answers, because my body is not normal!!! So online it was suggested to see an endocrinologist, which I have recently done an found out that my calcium level as well as my magnesium level are low. So now, I am taking 50,000 IU twice a week, 250 mg of magnesium once a day, and Citracel (Calcium citrate +D3) three times a day. I just began taking this dosage last week, but I am really nervous and wondering if there is anything else possibly wrong with me. I'm not convince that low vitaman D could cause me to feel the way I do. My weight is fluctuating, I lost about 15-20 pds total, not it seems to go up and down. I found a lymph node under my chin which leads me to think lymphoma but the doc thinks it's something small. I have been referred to an ENT for this. I have also hand an upper and lower GI which came back fine, and the bloodwork that the internal medicine completed was normal (consisted of ANA and some others). Honestly, I just really want to go back to feeling normal!! Is there any hope??? Please respond!! Thanks!!