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How bad is vit d level of 17.5 ng/ml? before it was 4 ng/ml..how bad r these numbers?female
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Vitamin D: Pretty bad. Your doctor should start yo on vitamin D 50,000 units once a week for 8 weeks then put you back to 1000 or 2000 units a day. The smaller doses are available over the counter and are not expensive.
Answered 1/31/2015
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