I'm new to the forum, but I've had Crohn's for about 14 years now. My symptoms have always been fairly mild, and the disease has been mostly in my stomach, duodenum and terminal ileum. I've really never experienced serious weight loss with it, or had any surgeries, and have maintained pretty well for most of the time with Pentasa.
I've been suffering with low-level back pain lately, and general fatigue and feeling "unwell" and my doctor (GP) tested my vitamin D levels and found it to be very low - at 11. She put me on 4,000 IU/day of supplements and prescribed physical therapy for my back.
The thing is - I have a healthy diet and go outdoors for at least 20min almost daily. Is it even possible for this amount of deficiency to have come about because of diet and lack of sunshine? Or should I assume that this is something to do with malabsorbtion because of the Crohn's? I'm due to go to the GI next week and was thinking of raising this with her, but I am a new patient to her, and I don't want to seem like I'm a hypochondriac, or trying to link things to Crohn's that have nothing to do with it.
Basically, I've never had an issue like this before. I'd be interested in others' thoughts. Thanks for reading!
I've been suffering with low-level back pain lately, and general fatigue and feeling "unwell" and my doctor (GP) tested my vitamin D levels and found it to be very low - at 11. She put me on 4,000 IU/day of supplements and prescribed physical therapy for my back.
The thing is - I have a healthy diet and go outdoors for at least 20min almost daily. Is it even possible for this amount of deficiency to have come about because of diet and lack of sunshine? Or should I assume that this is something to do with malabsorbtion because of the Crohn's? I'm due to go to the GI next week and was thinking of raising this with her, but I am a new patient to her, and I don't want to seem like I'm a hypochondriac, or trying to link things to Crohn's that have nothing to do with it.
Basically, I've never had an issue like this before. I'd be interested in others' thoughts. Thanks for reading!