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Vitamin D deficiency

2018-10-13 10:10:27
I have a vitamin D deficiency, which medicine should I take? Do I need to take a full course of this.
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Need to know your exact vitamin d levels to know how aggressive the supplementation should be. Oral weekly 60k units is the common approach

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