Getting worse with joint pain and popping at the beginning? (18 ng/ml suppl. 2k ui + k2 + mag + sun exp)
Hi there, I'm M36, I've been found deficient of vitamin d in the last blood tests (18 ng/ml). My GP asked for vit d test cause I have been having pain in my knees for many months, together with my always present back pain (but that's an old story).
I started suppelementing on the 28th of april with a starting dose of D3 25000 ui and then a daily dose of 2000 ui + K2 and magnesium in the evening. Plus, I live where I can get a lot of D3 from the sun, so I expose my self to the sun for 15/30 minutes a day (so I can from there between 1000 and 2000 ui per day)
I was not expecting to see any improvements before months, but not only I have not seen any, but honestly it seems that my joints pain are getting worse. Like I started to feel more pain in my shoulders and ankle and most of all, my joints have always been noisy, but now they're popping and cracking like hell.
I am scared, because I am starting to be afraid that this maybe some kind of arthritis and I won't be ever be able to heal.
So can you relate with my experience? Am I doing something wrong? Or maybe it's normal this initial worsening and cracking?