Thank you, dotsewick for your review re rheumatoid arthritis. My C Reactiv Protein and sed rate and other R factors have been high for years and I have joint swelling, typical deformation that runs in my family. I'm on methotrexate and biologics. But what has been getting worse and worse and worse is something I described to my doctor as "frozen joints". Even after sitting for a couple of minutes it would hurt to move. In fact, I was in constant pain. But it was worse if I was still for even a short period of time and then moved. Airplane travel, movie theaters, getting out of bed etc had me in tears. I looked for forums and others who had joint pain after being still for short period of time and came across this review from doteswick. It sounded like me. I take one multivitamin a day, but when you're desperate you will try things. I took 50,000 IU's of this and it is a bloody miracle. I can kneel and then get up again. I can get out of bed or up from sitting down without hobbling around like a 90 year old woman.I get my bloodwork done every 8 weeks because I take methotrexate and other things for RA but massive dose of D3 really helped. Really, really helped. I've been reluctant to say anything because I don't want to jinx the results I've had. I no longer am taking narcotics. I will discuss dosage with my doctor next visit because you can get into trouble with too much but my body tends to process medicines very quickly (I take the maximum oral dosage of methotrexate (8 pills) and even a couple days later the level in my blood is borderline low). I took 50,000 IU's and felt results 24 hours later. I took 10,000 IU's per day thereafter but increased to 20,000 IU's per day when some knee pain returned. This is a high dose but I'm going to keep doing it until I see my rheumatologist next month.What do I have? I've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases (sjogren's syndrome, RayNaud's, sclerosus, etc). My feet and hand joints are swollen and deformed and RA runs in my family. But this pain I have been experiencing these past 8-10 years that I reported to my doctor as "joint pain all the time" was likely a bone disorder. I drink milk and eat fish and take a multivitamin but it was this big dose that gave me relief. I do not know what my levels were, but thanks to a reviewer here, I am a whole lot better. My future was looking so grim and I went to dark places, I feel like I have a new outlook ahead of me and am so relieved.Is your chronic "joint pain" from D deficiency and actually bone pain? Try a 50,000 IU dose and see. It helped me a lot.
