I need help, I took vitamin d3 for the first time in years it was drops 400iu and now I am awake for 18 hours now can't sleep. I am afraid it has days of half life and I will break down or something worst without sleep. What can I do to sleep again? I am panicking should never touch vit d ever. I will never take vit d again

Many people complain of insomnia on vit d3. There are few studies confirming it. See reddit posts. It disturbs sleep. The problem now is it has a long half life. I am doomed. What can I do?

Huh. I also never heard that. Definitely doesn't have that effect on me or my family. I find it surprising, since we manufacture vitamin D ourselves in the sun, so if it causes insomnia, then I'd think no one would sleep well in the summer or after a day at the beach, which of course isn't the case. But who knows? We're all different.

To sleep: Melatonin? CBD or another cannabis product? An adaptogenic herb that makes you sleepy (for me that's eleuthero, for others it's holy basil, ashwagandha, etc.)? Homeopathic formulas, essential oils, massage, acupressure, binaural beats recordings, ESMR....

Definitely don't panic. Be sure to rest regardless, and use the time for meditation or some other form of relaxation, so your nervous system will get a break even if full sleep remains elusive for another few hours.

Saraeli, I think getting it from the sun is different from taking it to the mouth. The body has a good way to bring it to the right places. The body wasn't thaught to deal with oral vit 3, it's a human invention. But everybody is different.

Astroman you are absolutely right all symptoms got worse. They returned to the same seriousness as two years ago. What a defeat, i can't believe this. I just want to die. Vitamin d caused me a setback of two years or more in treatment. I am impotent. I am just about to take Valium and Lyrica to smash down this horrible body I have. I am hopeless

That seems strange. 400iu is pretty low. I can take 10,000 iu before bed and it has never had any effect, And I’m very sensitive to just about everything. If i have just a teeny tiny amount of caffeine (chocolate, etc) past noon I will not be able to sleep a wink.

I am very allergic to D3. It is made out of lanolin and sometimes lichen so it isn't the vitamin itself that causes the problem but how it is made. There is a vegan form of D2 you can take made out of some kind of fungi
This one is Ergocalciferol and is made from ultraviolet irradiation of ergosterol in yeast, however the end result may have virtually no traces of yeast left. Research suggests that vitamin D2 is less effective than vitamin D3 at raising blood levels of vitamin D. I have less trouble with D2. I experimented but all of them no matter the source they made me feel jittery and hyper to some degree. The horrible effects lasted longest with the lanolin based d3 and ruined sleep. The others I had some success taking them in the morning the jittery effect wore off towards to end of the day.
I ended up getting a UV Phototherapy Lamp-
https://www.amazon.com/DermaHealer-Lamp-Philips-PL-S-Light/dp/B07DX45JQK/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=Phototherapy+Lamp&qid=1608323946&sr=8-1

There are even more lamps of this type around but this one suited my skinny budget. Plus you dont buy the vitamin every month. I have had it for 2 years so it has paid for itself.
Plus I make the effort to sit in the sun for 15 minutes every other day on days that aren't wet or seriously cold. That is about 6 months of the year where I live. I dont come up with low D3 in tests I am doing so I figure it is working.

auzzie, I don't think it's an allergic reaction I didn't had any hives. I just can't sleep

Technically it is called an 'food intolerance" or a 'food sensitivity'. Allergy reaction is just my way of understanding it. Food intolerances and sensitivities are a broad term that is used to describe a wide range of adverse reactions to foods that cause symptoms after digesting them or more realistically not digesting them properly. Examples are stomach pain, bloating, gas/flatulence, diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), rashes, hives (urticaria), recurrent mouth ulcers, headaches..... For me part of that is having a substance over stimulate me so I cant relax and it puts me in a hyper-vigilent state with my mind racing. For me its a liver issue remember d3 is a fat. It is I suspect the liver struggling to process the manmade-vitamin properly.

I had a similar reaction with vitamin d. Try not to panic—it will leave your system eventually. I don't know why certain supplement or other things just seem to set things off, but I always find that if I stay calm (which is really hard to do), things end up being okay in the end.

I have gotten this reaction to vitamin D.

Excessive vitamin D upregulates CYP3A4, destroying cortisol and causing this adrenal stress.

“ EDIT: I will clarify. Eliminating vit D was some kind of lyme protocol, I've never heard of it here though. And I dont know if its more for people with a certain set of symptoms or if something set them apart from other lymies.“

It’s the Marshall Protocol.
There have been a few posts about it in the past years.
It’s a very difficult protocol - includes dark sunglasses, long sleeves in summer ......and you take a med: Benicar.

astroman said...
Hmm. Do you know of a website which further explains this? Must be something else to / in addition. Interesting.

I take 10,000 IU's of vit D in winter (now). Also have two gene copies of CYP3A4, and my cortisol is just under the AM range limits via three different types of tests, but I should look and see if those were winter or summer (no Vit D supp).

Other than D supps correcting my winter lab levels of it (for 10 years now), I cant tell any different with it or without.

It's not just your CYP3A4 enzyme, but susceptibility to vitamin D upregulating the PXR pathway, which affects several enzymes. There is likely significant genetic variation in this, with some people being more affected than others.

https://www.jbc.org/content/277/28/25125.full