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ShazzieB

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6. My provider includes Vitamin D level in my yearly bloodwork.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:58 PM

16 hrs ago

The midwest gets more sunlight than the northwest, I'm sure, but we're not the sunniest part of the country, either. I found out my vitamin D was low a few years ago and have taken a supplement ever since. If that test hadn't been included in my routine bloodwork, I'd never have known.

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