Vitamin D Deficiency and Fibromyalgia?
Has anyone with or know anyone that has been pretty much cured by taking extra Vitamin D. This is a site posting about it..hummm
The connection between fibromyalgia and vitamin D deficiency is gradually coming to a better understanding as more research studies are linking the muscular pain and weakness, experienced by fibromyalgia patients, to an insufficient intake or poor absorption of vitamin D in the body.
Several studies on both children and adult subjects have found that low levels of vitamin D in the body lead to unexplained bone and muscular pain. These findings have been received with excitement by health professionals because if the connection between fibromyalgia and vitamin D deficiency can be verified, the pain and weakness of patients suffering from fibromyalgia will be possible to treat with nutritional sources of vitamin D. However, this does not mean that fibromyalgia is simply a deficiency of vitamin D in the body; the latter is only a factor in developing or aggravating symptoms of fibromyalgia.
The Connection between Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D Deficiency
The observed improvement in the overall condition of fibromyalgia patients using vitamin D indicates a strong connection between the disease and the function of vitamin D in maintaining bone and muscular health. The role of vitamin D in contributing to the development of fibromyalgia is thought to be rooted in its metabolic function. Vitamin D helps in the synthesis of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the body.
The parathyroid hormone serves to extract phosphates, especially calcium phosphate, from the bones. Combined with other factors, a failure to extract adequate amounts of phosphates from bones can lead to fibromyalgia. In case of vitamin D deficiency, the body is depleted in parathyroid hormone and hence an abnormal retention of phosphates in the bones may initiate a march toward symptoms of fibromyalgia.
Sunlight, Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D Deficiency
One linking factor of significance in the connection between fibromyalgia and vitamin D deficiency is a person’s exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D forms in the skin upon exposure to sunlight for about 15 to 30 minutes. Limited exposure to sunlight on account of climatic factors, lifestyle, skin color, or any other reason, can result in vitamin D deficiency in the body, even when a normal course of nutrition is followed.
Health experts are now approving the idea that small amounts of unprotected sun exposure can be health-friendly, especially for patients of fibromyalgia. Since this disease of muscular weakness and pain develops slowly over several years, it seems reasonable to reduce the use of sunscreen while out on a moderately bright day and change a completely sun-protected lifestyle
This is the answer I gave on another posting about thyroid hormones. Fibromyalgia has a very high incidence of co-morbidities (accompanying diseases)
It is very good practice when one is diagnosed with fibromyalgia to test for thyroid hormones. If thyroid hormones are abnormal, they must be corrected and this will help you improve. If you improve it does not mean that you don’t have fibromyalgia!
If you do not improve your thyroid hormones will be checked again to make sure your medication dosage is ok.
Thyroid is not the cause of fibromyalgia and if you have thyroid problems it does not mean you don’t have fibromyalgia.
Source(s):
Check this site: www.fibromyalgia-information-relief.com
The same apply to Vitamin D. However, the fact that fibromyalgia sufferers tend to stay inside decrease their ability to synthetise Vitamin D through sun exposure and their vitamin D levels may be normal to start with but can become lower a few years later. So it is a good practice either to take vitamin D supplements or expose to the sun or to review serum levels at regular intervals (every second year).
The site I gave you above does have info on nutrition that may help.
If such a link is there, why don’t more people suffer from fibromyalga? I think these people are just trying to push their theory to make a name for themselves. At one time we were pretty sure that I was suffering from fibromalgia, I had all the classic symptoms. I ended up going to work, I had a lot of exercise and those classic symptoms disappeared It seems that without exercise the waste products in the body start to build up and after they build up on different parts of the body a soreness, an achenes sets in. The more it hurts, the less you do, the less you do the worse it gets. The worse it gets the more body parts that are going to be affected. Did you notice this is one of those recent medical problems? So what’s the problem? The biggest problem the medical field is facing is that it has become so specialized that it no longer looks at you as a whole person where one thing affects the other, they have seperated each part of the body from the other and want to make their diagnosis on that little part regardless of what is happening to the rest of the body. Then if something is still wrong you can be sent off to another specialist.
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vitamin D deficeincey can cause pain and fatigue–but not REAL FMS
if you are treated with vitain D and are cured–than you did not have FMS–you had a vitamin deficiency
many docs are handing out teh fms diagnosis like candy–for any pain–even pain due to other known or unknown
lack of exercise doesn’t cause real FMS either-yes it cause pain and fatigue–but not real FMS…
when I got sick– i was active–running around oustide with the neighborhood kidsa ll day–I work with 2 year olds-regularly engaging in physical activity–yet I still have symptoms
real FMS is a disorder of teh central nervous system
vitamiin d deficiency at its worst can cuase Rickets–milder forms can cause sleep and muscle problems–but it is not REAL FMS
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this is the answer I gave to another question: fibromylagia does not TRULY have a high comorbidity rate….it has a high rate of FALSE diagnosis with other conditions—many docs label any pain form normal lifestyle or another condition (such as vitamin deficiency) as fms–when it is not
FMS is its own specific neuro condition
if you are ‘cured’ after correctiing a vitamin deficiency or hormone problem–you never had FMS to begin with–it will not go away by curing another condition-
if you correct a vitamin d deficeincy–you will only cure taht condition–if you also have fibro–you will still have it
You CAN have both–but its much rarer than diagnosed.
The trick is-if you are completely cured by vitamin/hormone treatment—you did not have fms
if even after treating teh vitamin/hormone you still have symptoms-you may have fms
vitamin D defiecienct may be a complicatioin of fms–but it has nothing to do with the fibro itself—most people with fms don’t seclude themselves enoguh to be affected by lack of sun
This is the answer I gave on another posting about thyroid hormones. Fibromyalgia has a very high incidence of co-morbidities (accompanying diseases)
It is very good practice when one is diagnosed with fibromyalgia to test for thyroid hormones. If thyroid hormones are abnormal, they must be corrected and this will help you improve. If you improve it does not mean that you don’t have fibromyalgia!
If you do not improve your thyroid hormones will be checked again to make sure your medication dosage is ok.
Thyroid is not the cause of fibromyalgia and if you have thyroid problems it does not mean you don’t have fibromyalgia.
Source(s):
Check this site: http://www.fibromyalgia-information-relief.com
The same apply to Vitamin D. However, the fact that fibromyalgia sufferers tend to stay inside decrease their ability to synthetise Vitamin D through sun exposure and their vitamin D levels may be normal to start with but can become lower a few years later. So it is a good practice either to take vitamin D supplements or expose to the sun or to review serum levels at regular intervals (every second year).
The site I gave you above does have info on nutrition that may help.
References :