Pain reduction with 600,000 IU Vitamin D: RCT announced

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 julie.haesebaert@chu-lyon.fr

Comment by VitaminDWiki

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 VitaminDWiki is proposing in the video being created

No update on trial as of Jan 2024 since 2013 - suspect it was cancelled

See also VitaminDWiki

• 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