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A snippet from the AMA email newsletter:
Analysis indicates vitamin D may help reduce chronic pain. The UPI (6/24) reports, "An analysis of 22 clinical studies of patients with varied chronic pain and fatigue syndromes found almost all patients lacked vitamin D," according to new research. The review showed that "when sufficient vitamin D supplementation was provided, the aches, pains, weakness, and related problems in most of the patients either vanished, or were at least helped to a significant extent."
I wonder how many "FMS" patients would be cured by this. I have used vitamin D in a few patients with systemic pain (polymyositis, vasculitis, etc) and seen significant pain reduction. If you ramp them up while checking blood levels you can find yourself titrating very to large - even toxic - doses. It's a much more important vitamin than we ever gave it credit for and seems to have significant effect on the immune system and other systems.
Analysis indicates vitamin D may help reduce chronic pain. The UPI (6/24) reports, "An analysis of 22 clinical studies of patients with varied chronic pain and fatigue syndromes found almost all patients lacked vitamin D," according to new research. The review showed that "when sufficient vitamin D supplementation was provided, the aches, pains, weakness, and related problems in most of the patients either vanished, or were at least helped to a significant extent."
I wonder how many "FMS" patients would be cured by this. I have used vitamin D in a few patients with systemic pain (polymyositis, vasculitis, etc) and seen significant pain reduction. If you ramp them up while checking blood levels you can find yourself titrating very to large - even toxic - doses. It's a much more important vitamin than we ever gave it credit for and seems to have significant effect on the immune system and other systems.