Your Low Vitamin D Levels might be from the Medicine(s) you are taking?

[Posterboy]

To All,

A recent thread asked about this (What could be the cause of their Low Vitamin D levels) ..and the someone was taking Seroquil.....so that set off the researscher in me to see if the medicine they were taking could of been the cause of their low Vitamin D levels......and indeed it could!

As most know (on this forum) I have had my own bad reactions in the past from medicines I had been taking at the time......

Well it turns out.....recent medicine I begin to take again was also affecting my Vitamin D levels (I really shouldn't be surprised by now)......but somehow I still am...

@knitty kittyprobably can find you the original research on this topic......I haven't had the time lately.

But here is the article from Pharmacy times that talks about a whole class of drugs than can make someone low in Vitamin D.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/drug-interactions-with-cyp3a4-an-update

It turns out my new BP medicine I had recently started does interfere with my (your) Vitamin D levels.

I had taken it in the past.....but it had begin to bother me after  a couple years (as most drugs do)......so I was cycling back to it.....because my other BP medicine I had been transferred too.....Ramipril was causing a "Chronic Cough" instead.....it did both as Linsopril and Ramipril.....so I was looking for shelter from Amlodopine.....(little did I know it.....I was going from the frying pain and into the fire again).....see below for more information about how it was affecting me)

So it was back on the Norvasc etc....

Sometimes you can't win for loosing....

I probably don't need it anyway.....but was just taking it for a maintenance medicine as  a precaution....

Turns out it caused me to feel a little "Glum" shortly after taking it.....it wasn't until I recently found out this connection between Norvasc aka Amlodopine Besylate could also be causing my low Vitamin D levels.....which I have struggled with before.....from time to time.....and you guessed it was when I was on Amlodopine but I didn't put 2+2 together until now.....

So I am back on the Vitamin D again......and my moods has perked up again already....

Medicine mugs us of our Vitamins!

I hope this is helpful but it is not medical advice.

Posterboy,

[Scott Adams]

This is definitely interesting, and another reason why people should supplement with Vitamin D, especially if you take certain meds.