Chronic Pain and Vitamin D (DOVID) France
- 100 People in double blind intervention clinical trial. Vitamin D3 vs placebo
- 200,000 IU every 15 days: total of 3 doses: day 1, day 15, day 30
- Pain assessment will be at start, 1.5 and 3 months (quality of life)
- Inclusion Criteria include
Chronic and diffuse musculoskeletal pain, without known etiology, lasting for at least 3 months
Vitamin D level initially <20.8 ng/ml (52 nmol/l)
Contact: Julie Haesebaert [email protected]
Comment by Vitamin D Life
This is essentially a 600,000 IU loading dose, which, based on previous studies, should work well.
The loading dose amount and time period is very similar to what Vitamin D Life is proposing in the video being created
See also Vitamin D Life
- Overview Pain and Vitamin D
- 100 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain – IoM June 2011
- Overview Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue and vitamin D
- Overview Loading of vitamin D
- 600,000 IU vitamin D normalized virtually all seniors in 3 months (Injection better than oral)– May 2012
- Large single dose of more than 300,000 IU of vitamin D works well for 3 months – Review Nov 2013