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HIV positive you should be taking Vitamin D


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Most people are vitamin D deficient - not just poz guys. I've been taking it for years. It's most critical in the winter months when you're not out in the sun. It can cause depression, etc.

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Guys with HIV should check with their doctors or pharmacists before taking vitamin D as overdosing on it can be as dangerous as being deficient. I have kidney damage from an HIV drug which means that I piss away many minerals and vitamins essential for good health (I piss so much calcium that I can put limescale on a PA in two weeks). I asked my consultant about the pain I was having in my bones (I have osteopenia - thinning bones) and his response that it could be that my prescription for vitamin D supplement needed to be lowered...

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