My kids and I were prescribed 50,000 IU of vitamin D. My doctor told me that he had one patient who required 100,000 IU of vit D for three months to get her levels up.
My kids and I take 5,000 IU of vitamin D from October through April, then we sunbathe for 30 minutes a day.
I know that a lot of people hate sunbathing, but it’s the only way my family can stay healthy.
Last year I only went out twice. I just didn’t do it. Last winter I was sicker than I’d been in years. The oral just wasn’t enough. I’m still trying to recover from a surgery I had in January. Very slow healing.
From mid-April (right now) until it’s just too cold, we get out on every sunny day that we can, for as long as we can stand it. (It gets hot in Texas!)
It took us two years to figure all this out.
I'm sorry! That was 50,000 IU a *WEEK*. And that is prescription ONLY.