Vitamin supplements and "feeling dizzy"

Are you taking a high level calcium supplement? If your supplement is pretty high already, but you're still getting some calcium from your diet, then you may be getting too much, which is known to cause dizziness.

Drink two cups of almond milk a day.

You'll get most of your calcium from that. Calcium is one of the things you really don't need to supplement. Light adjustments to your diet will do the trick and get the job done more effectively.

As for Vitamin D, that is one of the few I would recommend supplementing, as it is involved in so many different functions. Take a 5000 IU pill once a day with food.

you also need to be getting enough magnesium with the calcium for your body to absorb it properly, make sure what supplements you take have magnesium in them. And as far as taking vitamin D supplements, you need to be careful and talk to your Dr. and have it monitored, as Vitamin D toxcity is caused by supplements and not by your consumption through diet or sun. Any supplements higher than 600 IU's are usually only prescribed to treat medical conditions (such as vitamin D deficiency) and are only for short periods of time and need to be under supervision of someone more qualified than someone here on MFP so please don't start taking 5000IU's unless your Dr. tells you too.

Absolutely not true.

I've taken 5000 iu supplements of Vitamin D for years. Vitamin D 3 aka Cholecalciferal is the same as what is synthesized by the body upon exposure to the sun. With approximately 20-30 minutes of sun exposure you produce around 20,000 IUs of Vitamin D. There are no recorded cases of Vitamin D toxicity from anything short of hundreds of thousands of units, the better part of a million, per day, for months on end. If you want truth based in fact, google Dr. Vieth/Vitamin D. I don't have the link anymore but there was tons of research on this done by him and others.

Also for deriding my advice on Vitamin D you seem to rather freely recommend supplementing Magnesium....are we talking Magnesium oxide? or citrate? One of these isn't absorbed by the body and just turns your *kitten* into liquid. If you are going to supplement, you want citrate, in capsule form, not tablet. Or, just eat almonds on the regular.

Ok, Read up on Vitamin D. There seems to be lots of claims of health benefits from having good levels. Since your Doc tested your levels and said your Vitamin D levels are low, so it's obvious supplementing is needed. I've been taking 7000 units daily for months, plus I get some sun. My levels were pretty close to optimal. I've seen a generic recommendation by a D.O. for 6000 daily for a month, then a reduction to 4000 thereafter. Like fish oil, I consider Vitamin D a great supplement for almost everyone but your doctor has your labs and should be able to recommend a starting dose.

Get copies of your lab work so you know your numbers.