An 89-year-old retired businessman died from an “overdose” of Vitamin D supplements that did not warn about the risks of excessive intake.
David Mitchener from Oxted, Surrey, reportedly had fatally high levels of Vitamin D when he was brought to the East Surrey Hospital last year in May and was suffering from hypercalcaemia – a build-up of calcium in the body associated with taking too much vitamin D.
He died ten days later.
I’ve been noticing a lot of people recently taking absolutely massive daily doses of vitamin d. I know the flccc and anti-vax people are wild about vitamin d and think that’s all you need to cure covid so I’ve seen a number of them taking these monster doses, but I’ve also noticed some in the long covid community also taking these monster doses I suppose in an attempt to find anything that makes them feel better. I don’t think they’re taking quite this much, and I don’t actually know what constitutes an unsafe dose, but I’ve been thinking is that really safe to be taking that much vitamin d? Especially daily? Idk, but just a trend I’ve anecdotally noticed recently.
A doctor once prescribed vitamin d to me because I was deficient, I took 5,000 IU daily for a few months and felt fine. Wonder how much these people are taking
okay I found one guy saying he was doing 30,000 daily
another person saying 20-40,000 daily
another person saying 10,000 3x/day
another person saying he was doing 100,000/day for a while but now at 20-30,000 daily
a lot of other people saying they’re taking massive doses, but only for temporary time periods
I know nothing about vitamin d but I take like 1000 daily. I was doing 2000 daily for a long time but my doctor said that’s probably unnecessary. I was mostly just astounded at seeing how much vitamin d some people were taking.
edit: this from r/covidlonghaulers sub