Vitamin D supplements 'advised for everyone'

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Melanoma of certain types has a distinct link to certain types of cancer. You could be a nun (in an old-fashioned habit, wimple etc) and get breast cancer and very often - melanoma either precedes or follows it.

I don't believe this is publicised anywhere near enough - but my sis actually lived in Australia - and it's absolutely common knowledge there. She was warned to keep a religious eye out for melanoma when seeing the GP first of all, having found a lump in a boob. This was followed up constantly all the while that was treated and at all her follow-ups - and she'd be inspected just in case, at the same time.

I'm interested to see what happens when I eventually get my Dermatology appointment in October - as the whether they bother having a good look at my brown lumps bumps and flat marks (literally all over including the hair covered part of my head and my private parts) to see if any of em are nasties. I find it exceptionally weird that so far, every member of my own family has either had, or died of, cancer - and so far - I'm not personally affected at all .......
 
My leukaemia predisposes me to skin cancer due to immune dysregulation and I'm 8 to 10 times more likely to suffer it than someone without cancer. Thankfully those skin cancers are more likely to be non malignant squamous or basal cell but I struck unlucky and got the nasty type.

I hope your dermatology check up goes well Jenny and you're right in saying melanomas can develop where the sun don't shine. Interestingly not a single member of my blood line have died of cancer to my knowledge so it shows that you can buck the genetic trend. They all seemd to have diabetes however! 🙄
 
Pine Marten said:
I've been vitamin D deficient a couple of times (it stopped me giving blood a year or so back - I was a regular blood donor) and needed supplements from the GP. I was advised to carry on taking an over-the-counter supplement to keep it topped up. Both the surgery and the blood donors people commented that, living in a northern hemisphere, lots of British people get deficient. The supplement I take is a fish oil one, with added D and A vitamins, as I'm not that keen on oily fish, and usually eat it only once a week.

Also, I'm not that keen on warm weather, so in this hot weather I tend to stay indoors quite a bit, or go out for short periods - I would get very bored and/or very depressed after an hour in the sun 😱 !
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Another good thing about oily fish. I cant get enough of the stuff. Good luck Pine Martin 🙂
 
My favorite song "The Sun" Stranglers ! 😎. When I am working outside in the summer great. In the winter up a ladder in the snow "no thanks". I must be getting old :D
 
Thank you very much DL. I have seen them live on a few occasions. I went with my mates, 1 a solicitor & other a headmaster. Lots of wild people in the 02 in Newcastle. I had my bright red punk wig on & the bouncer on the door nearly let me in free. Lots of others with green hair but very good old punks (mortgages etc round there necks). Life is for living :D
 
Hobieman life is indeed for living the thing is though since dragging my rotting carcass out of bed this morning I look and feel like the living dead :(
 
I'm glad this has got so much publicity.

As a northerner, vitamin d deficiency is now endemic.

When I was diagnosed with severe deficiency a few years ago I literally had a row with one of the practice gps who insisted that walking, even in the winter, would boost my natural vitamin d! Turned out all the GPs believed the same thing 🙂

Sadly I think the cut off line for the right UV-B spectrum is Manchester - above that it simply isn't present between September and March.
Add cloud cover into the mix, and with the weather we are having it isn't even there in the summer! I think they really only got worried on the back of the Iceland volcano emissions, where nobody in the UK generated any vitamin d that entire year even in the south 😉

As I say, glad to see this with so much publicity, not least to educate our GPs!
 
I live in the North too. :D Just drive my van around with the stanglers music playing all day. Happy as a pig in ! (it does not feel like the sun has been out till peasantry)
 
Where we live, Vic, it's the dark winters that sap your vitamin D, and some think that this lack of sunlight accounts for the frequency of MS in Scotland to be nearly twice that in England.
 
mikeyB said:
Where we live, Vic, it's the dark winters that sap your vitamin D, and some think that this lack of sunlight accounts for the frequency of MS in Scotland to be nearly twice that in England.
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Would that be the same Scotland where I live?
The article was about prescribing vit D, there was someone on another thread (couldn;t find it) complaining their GP wouldn;t prescribe it. This article said that a GP didn't have to prescribe it unless the patient was tested to be deficient in Vit D. Which is fair enough as they are cheaper than chips.
 
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