I've tried taking vitamin D bc heard it was so great.
After taking 1000 ui a day for a week or two, I will start to experience mood issues like increased anger and anxiety which will go away after a couple days of stopping.
I have heard of others with this complaint as well, but I do not know why. ChatGPT suggests something about magnesium and calcium levels, but it's certainly not a commonly talked about side effect.
Anyone have an answer? I assume I'm deficient but I'm not sure its worth the benefits.
( I'm not saying Vit D is bad, I'm just curious if others have had difficulties with it )
I took 5000 IU of vitamin D for one month and I just happen to have a blood test that was coming up. My calcium levels were elevated. I was told to take this dose by my doctor, because my vitamin D levels, not deficient she felt they were very low.
During this time, my mood also worsened.
Some of us may be more sensitive to calcium transport when taking vitamin D than others, and this is clearly due to genetics. Interestingly enough, there is something in fish which controls this, I can’t think of it off the top of my head right now, but I will look it up and post it later.
So now I only get my vitamin D from natural occurring vitamin D in seafood, and the sun.
I've experienced something similar and I believe D3 is not to blame.
I took 5k iu oil softgels and got a unique and indescribable BAD feeling. It crept up very gradually over the course of a month and a half and I had a hard time realizing what was happening. It took me over a month to recover after I stopped.
Another time I've taken 2k iu dry D3 and had zero side-effects.
A couple of years after that D3 mishap, I tried some omega-3 and after a two weeks I realized that that unique bad feeling was making a comeback.
Again, another time I tried a different brand of omega-3 I had no side-effects.
I have a bunch of food sensitivities. So I believe that was a reaction to some contaminants in the oil.
Could you please share your physical activity level around the time of supplementation?
One of the most interesting studies I found in my research of vitamin D was a study in an elder care center where the patients were given massive doses of vitamin D.
The result of the massive doses were that patience had less hip fractures, but more falls compared to the control.
Now take this next part with a grain of salt because it’s me extrapolating from this result, but due to the known effects of vitamin D on muscle strength and also on bone density, I imagine that these patients were more active, but because vitamin D doesn’t give you coordination as well as strength they were falling more, their bones were more dense so they had less fractures per fall.
The point I’m trying to make and the reason I am curious about your own activity level, is that perhaps that there is a sensation or feeling of your muscles being more primed for action which can be agitating. Perhaps regular activity can link one’s sense of proprioception with increased muscular ability.
Apologies in advance if this is too personal of a pry.
When does a professional come into play? You assumed you're deficient, you asked chatgpt, and now you're asking for anecdotes from HN. Go get some blood work done and talk to a professional who actually knows about these things.
I don't think there's an easy answer as we all have differently tuned bodies with different known/unknown beningn/malevolent conditions. It's probably good to do some short term experimenting, try eating more magnesium and calcium rich foods and see how you feel. If you really want to be objective, get your blood contents measured. (Although blood levels don't show everything, like calcium stores in the bones.)
tl;dr - some Vit D supplements are based on lanolin. if you're sensitive to it, you may switch to a supplement that doesn't use lanolin. also one response talks about taking a multi-Vitamin B supplement for anger issues with Vit.D
1000 ui per day? Thats a small dose, I am myself taking 800 per day but when I skip I just compound it for next dose since D works this way and accumulates, not like vitamin C. I had bad case of deficiency recently (when finally some blood work was done) and initial treatment to jumpstart was IIRC 100k ui.
Maybe you have some sort of sensitivity to medium in which its dissolved?
Not sure why you're being downvoted, so I created an account specifically to respond.
I've had the same issue. Even when I take low doses of 400iu, vitamin D causes extreme anxiety and mood issues that only go away a couple of days after I stop taking it. I've had to completely cut it out and can't take supplements that contain it. I've also taken various brands so I would assume the additives would be different but who knows. If you search this symptom online, you'll find a lot of people with the same reaction but never any explanation.
Definitely interested to see if anyone has had this same issue and was able to fix it.
Anyway, just a word of caution to anyone reading. Because even 400iu makes me feel very uncomfortable. I don't want to know what would happen at 4,000iu.
I think at this point, they should just go straight to liquid with an eyedropper, no gelatin capsule or anything in order to try and rule out as much as possible.
The problem with an exposed liquid is that will definitely lose its potency a lot quicker. A softgel keeps the active ingredient somewhat protected from oxidation. It also depends on the level of antioxidant present in the liquid. This matters in the tail end of the bottle.
After taking 1000 ui a day for a week or two, I will start to experience mood issues like increased anger and anxiety which will go away after a couple days of stopping.
I have heard of others with this complaint as well, but I do not know why. ChatGPT suggests something about magnesium and calcium levels, but it's certainly not a commonly talked about side effect.
Anyone have an answer? I assume I'm deficient but I'm not sure its worth the benefits.
( I'm not saying Vit D is bad, I'm just curious if others have had difficulties with it )