Nearly 2 years ago I decided to go to my GP as I had a growth on my cheek that felt like a rice crispy. I had been covering it with a plaster for a few weeks thinking it may be a skin tag, but it stayed and was growing a little. While I was with the GP I told him I get hives and welts if I am in the sun for even 2 minutes, and I use factor 50 sun lotion.
Say hello to my hand after being in weak sunlight after 2 minutes of some light weed pulling from a raised bed on 27th March 2015. I live in the North-East of England and believe me, the sun has difficulty finding us here.
My skin has reacted like this for about 20 years, and I don't like the heat that much anyway, so I tend to where long sleeves regardless of the weather.
Anyway, back to the GP. He said the growth was a skin tag and to use a higher factor sun cream. Can you get higher?
A few days later, back to see another GP as I didn't trust the first. She referred me to a Professor at the local hospital's Dermatology department. I had UV tests all over my back from a hight dose to a miniscule dose. Every one reacted with welts and hives of various sizes and my back itched like hell for an hour or so.
To cut an already long story short, I had Solar Urticaria, a sensitivity to the radiation in sunlight, apparently, but I was more sensitive than anyone he'd ever dealt with. I bet he says that to all the boys. Even a glass window did not filter the suns rays for me.
A few months of quadruple daily doses of Cetirizine (anti-histamine) which the only effect was to make me drowsy and foggy headed. At the next consultation I decided to quit the Cetirizine as they had no effect on the hives and welts, and I declined the offer of UV bed treatment, figuring that keeping out of the sun was a safer bet for me anyway.
I looked at vitamin D after Googling a bit. Sounded good to me. My GP did a blood level test and it turned out my levels were borderline but I didn't need supplements.
There's more medical stuff to come, but for this first post I'll stick to the Sun.
Fast forward 2 years and I discover an Amazon book by Jeff T. Bowles - The Miraculous Results of Extremely High Doses of Vitamin D3. I ordered it via Amazon and received it the next morning. It too me only 2 days to read. I was transfixed. So, today, Monday 25th January 2016, I am starting a Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 megadose.
I will start off with daily doses of 10,000 IU of D3. I'm using Solgar as the Amazon reviews seem good, and, 100MCG of K2 MK-7 from Natto Extract also from Solgar.
My main nags as I am at the moment are:
I feel lethargic and foggy headed most of the time.
My eyes strain and I am having to use reading glasses (I can see a bee 40ft away above an Oak tree but cannot read a book at arms length).
I work night shifts 12 hrs a night 4 nights a week.
I sleep 10 - 11 hours between shifts.
I sleep for 16 - 20 hours when I'm off work (Straight through without waking) and still wake up feeling tired and lethargic. Then after 3 hours awake, I'll pop back to bed for a few hours more sleep.
The balls and arches of my feet hurt when I am on my feet for a little or when I've just woken up.
My feet can be freezing when I'm sitting in the house even though the rest of me is hot or warm.
My reaction to sunlight is a pain.
I have a sore rash on my posterior (after 3 months of antibiotics earlier this year) and more about this later.
Slight aches on my left shoulder blade after surgery to drain an abscess from a sebaceous cyst (again, more on this later).
Bowel movements erratic after gall bladder removed (yet again, more on this later).
I have already started the D3 and K2, and next week I'll be doubling up. I will be totally honest and frank about any matters as I go along. I want to build up to taking 50,000 IU of D3 and 500MCG of K2. And, if need be, I will go higher.
Before I go for now, I meant to say I queried my blood results for D3 from last July this morning after reading Jeff T. Bowles' book. I was advised that my reading was 61nmol/L which equates to 24.439ng/ml.
The NHS here in the UK specify optimal levels are 80nmol/L or 32ng/ml
In Canada they say it's 105nmol/L or 42ng/ml
Jeff T. Bowles maintains his at between 100ng/ml - 150ng/ml
By Jeff's standards it look like I'm at least 4 times under par. Purchase his ebook or paperback from Amazon, read it and see what you think.
I have no link or association with Jeff T. Bowles (other than I purchased and read his book), Amazon or Solgar or anything or anyone else for the purpose of this blog.
