HIV positive you should be taking Vitamin D

[TigerMilner]

Here is an interesting article I ran across. I have always been big on vitamins so I found this reassuring. Anything that keeps me healthy keeps me fucking.

http://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/treatment/2014/05/28/got-hiv-you-need-take-vitamin-d

[rawTOP]

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.

[Hotload84]

My doctor put me on it a few years ago, but she remarked the other day (with just a tad bit of frustration in her voice) that the vitamin D deficiency had scarcely budged. Even so I keep poppin' 'em.

[bearbandit]

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...