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TIFU by thinking my severe vitamin D deficiency was just megadepression for five years

for reference i’m 25M just posting here because it is pretty life changing

for the past five years my fatigue has been so bad it feels like my life has revolved around when i’m going to be able to nap next. i had to take a nap on my lunch break every single day; even when it was -10° outside i’d wait for my car to warm up so i could get 30 minutes of sleep in before facing the rest of my shift

even directly after 12 or 14 hours of sleep i would think “man i could definitely go to bed right now”. i also gained like 20-30 lbs because i couldn’t get a gym routine down.

i’ve had anxiety and depression pretty bad in the past and a lot of the symptoms are consistent (as fatigue, memory loss, and depression are symptoms of vitamin D deficiency) so i just thought “well fuck, it’s really hitting me hard huh” and did fucking nothing about it

also, i think my fucking bones were getting brittle. every time i get up i can feel a deep bone ache in my hands or feet or knees or any part that sticks out really

anyways i finally got bloodwork done a couple months ago. i don’t often go to the dr because i’m chinese (lol) and i just don’t go in unless i’m actively dying or something. but my partner finally convinced me

the normal range for vitamin d levels is between 30-100 ng/mL, with deficiency being under 20, and severe deficiency being under 12. dawg my level was 9 ng/mL.

so i saw this and think hmm that seems low! and then my doctor says yeah so this is probably it dude! heres a shitton of vitamin D for the next eight weeks!

and HERES WHERE I REALLY FUCKED UP, i thought i had taken labs before so i looked up my past results from years and years ago and the level was EIGHT. 8 ng/mol. i don’t know why i didn’t follow up with this, i guess i must have thought it wasn’t that bad

so i have had a severe deficiency for AT LEAST FIVE YEARS that i could have fixed ages ago. just the time loss makes me so sad and angry because i’ve sacrificed so much of my life and my hobbies/interests to sleeping all the goddamn time

anyways, today marked the last 50,000 iu vitamin D pill that i’ve taken over the past eight weeks. and my fucking life has changed! i don’t feel like ass all the time!!! i can wake up in the morning after eight hours of sleep and stay awake the whole day!!!!

i can’t express how life changing it’s been to get some energy back. it was like i was living partially asleep for my whole life

i’ve already made a workout and meal plan for the upcoming week. i just generally feel so hopeful for my future when i think about how many things i can do in a day now. another good part is that i’m relatively young so hopefully the bone density thing will resolve in a year or so

anyways GET YOUR LABS DONE!!!! and take your vitamins, especially if you live in a northern area

TL;DR i lost years of my life to sleep because i thought the fatigue from my vitamin d deficiency was just depression

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