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Are you still taking only about 1,000IU each day? I went and bought some today but the guy at Whole Foods automatically handed me 2,000 IU. I'm excited to try this! i've heard that you need to take magnesium with D3 though in order for it to work properly?
Also, have any of you taking D3 noticed a decline in anxiety/stress at all?
Thank you in advance! 
On 2/16/2016 at 6:40 AM, maxam said:I tried 2400IU per day and after 2 3 days i felt fatigue again...I will try even more lower dosage but not sure if it will help.I am desperate again.Probably need more magnesium
I wonder what happens with people like SebumSucks,who have taken vitamin d3 before one or two years,is there long term effect, do acne returns or have no acne til now ?
I also wonder,if there is relatioship between accutane and d3,because more and more people first tried accutane and then tried d3 and there is effect then.Probably who haven't tried accutane have no effect with d3...
Is there a link between Magnesium and D3 intake?
On 9/6/2016 at 4:38 AM, Jenjen77 said:Are you still taking only about 1,000IU each day? I went and bought some today but the guy at Whole Foods automatically handed me 2,000 IU. I'm excited to try this! i've heard that you need to take magnesium with D3 though in order for it to work properly?
Also, have any of you taking D3 noticed a decline in anxiety/stress at all?
Thank you in advance!
Is there a link between Magnesium and D3 intake?
D3 needs magnesium to absorb or it was something like this.Your dosage of D3 is not so big and is not necessary but if you want you can take magnesium just in case.
In earlier posts in this topic was said that this fatigue actually is from the magnesium deficiency that bigger intake of D3 cause. Constipation is not from d3 in my opinion.
Have people with lower dosage became results ? I think that some point of D3 level in the blood should be reached,so it does not matter if dosage is low or big(only the time to reach this point).Do you think that i am wrong ?
Oh my god I feel compelled to respond to this because I RECENTLY DISCOVERED THE SAME THING! I dont know why they dont publicise the effects of vitamin D more but ive struggled with gross acne since the beginning of highschool and im 21 now and its still gross. Heres the thing though, whenever its summer my acne DISAPPEARS. Quite literally it goes away and I have flawless skin but as soon as fall and winter come and I dont get enough sun they come back miserably. Ive tried healthy eating, many birth control for acne, many topical creams, and ive even been on accutane but it came back! Ive just realised myself that maybe it was the vitamin d i was getting from the sun during the summers that was keeping my skin so clear and ive been taking 2 vitamin D3 1000 UI pills every day for a week and the effect has been REMARKABLE im not even exagerrating no new pimples, the ones i have are severely shrinking and reducing and my skins oilyness is gone.... I completely relate to you OP and wish I'd figured this out sooner as well.. better late than never I guess! Cheers!
I have always had suspicions that my persistent hormonal acne is due to something I was or was not doing in my normal regular routine. Reason being is my skin behaves really well every time I go on holidays. After years of trial and error I have narrowed it down to sun exposure. I'm always out and about when I'm on holiday for at least 8 hours a day. I eat and drink freely with no issues so I dare say the problem isn't anything I'm consuming.
My last 2 blood tests revealed vitamin D deficiency so I am finally trying to take d3 5000 iud per day as some have suggested. I had been taking 2000iud p/day the last 12 months with only minimal results so If you are welcome to PM down the track if you're curious about my progress.
I am getting blood work done extra week so I will run this all by my GP (in case anyone was concerned)
I started taking vitamin A 10,000 IU vitmain 3 400 iu vitmain d3 2000 iu and zinc picolinate 50mg and my skin got clear no new pimples, BUT my stomach got infllamted by taking all of these pills everyday so i had to stop taking them and i only took zinc alone thinking that the zinc alone had cured my acne, well i have new pimples now and they suck my stomach has reduced in flammation and is better now so i am taking d3 2000 with zinc picolibate 50mg once a day and hoepfully my face goes back to being clear, I do beleive that it was the vitmain d3 that was helping me since i had been taking vit a and e qall along the only new ones i added were d and zinc picolnate and me thinikning it was only the zin was worng, now i will see by addin tthe vitamin d3 again if this was the one that really helped me. I guess i will find out in a couple of days 
also i am not washing my face at all idk if this is bad or not i was clear without face wash and just the vitamins but my stomach fucked me up .
I have been having difficulty with breakouts all around my nose, and smile lines since having two back to back knee surgeries which have kept me inside for several months. I have tried taking nature maxes D3 supplements a few times and immediately notice a drying and clearing of all acne. I don't have oily skin normally at all but have noticed waking up with oiliness around the same areas only when it's broke out. I never had zits as a kid, teenager or adult until the last year. I have definitely been indoors way more than normal and I'm the sun very rarely. I don't eat a lot of foods with vitamin D due to food isues/allergies. When I've broke out badly I've taken 4 D3 pills not sure of the mg but by the next day my skin is already showing great improvements. I do know from testing my D runs low on occasion but is not consistent as in Florida it's usually not hard to get some sun however in every inner it's often gray and raining daily so it can be challenging those months. I am definitely a big believer taking the D3 supplements are causing a huge improvement. Will be seeing my primary care to have current D tested and to get results of D from all surgery labs.
Can smb suggest. I've started to take vitamin D3 10 000 iu as it was prescribed me from my doctor. Also every night I use retin-a gel 0.1% and every morning and evening take 2 softgels of omega-3 (in summ 1200 EPA+DHA in 4g oil fish/daily). Could I add a vitamin A 25 000 iu/daily if I'm planning to undergo acne scars treatment (RF-INFINI)? I've bought "now" vitamin A (25 000 iu in 1 pill) and it suggests to take 1 pill/daily. Is it ok to take D3 10 000 iu in the morning + 2 pills omega-3 and vitamin A 25 000 + 2 pills omega-3 at night and apply retin-a gel for every day? (D3 and A separetely bcuz of they shouldn't take at the same time). Have smb had such experience?
I got a blood test done and my levels are at 22 and I've been struggling with oily skin/acne since I was 10. I started taking 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 on Saturday and my skin has gotten super oily within the past three days. Did anyone else experience their oil levels going up before it starts clearing out? I'm wondering if it's because my body isn't yet used to the addition of the vitamin.
Also, does it make a difference as to whether I take the softgelsor the dry tablets? Would it even help me especially because my oily skin is genetic?
Hello,
thanks for that forum!
I've been diagnosed with mildly low vitamin D levels a year ago, but I was too lazy to take it, so I didn't.
I'm struggling with hormonal acne for almost 2-3 years. The last two summers my skin was good. The last summer it was great actually, because I started to take Vitex for my low progesterone. But despite the Vitex, my acne came back, almost as a rule, with the autumn months. I live in the cental Europe and during winter there is not much of a sunlight. So I finally (...hopefully!) put two and two together that it might be the vitamin D3!
I started to take vitamin D3 exactly week ago and I already see big difference! My skin started to peel of in the places I have big/a lot of spots. I already feel a lot better about my skin. I also struggle with fatique, anxiety and other stuff that are related to both low vitamin D and progesterone, but the Vitex itself doesn't seem enough. Fingers crossed guys!
Hello. I have a problem
I have done research for vitamin D levels because I have had a problem with acne for over a dozen years and every year in the summer season my skin is without pimples, smooth. My result is 13.7 ng / ml very low ... I decided and bought in the herbal store vitamin D3 5000 UI from Dr. Brest + K2 from NOW. After 3 days, my acne got worse ... I got more inflammatory and papulous changes 
I am broken ... is this sheep wool lanolin so responsive? I need to supplement this deficiency but I do not know what product ... changes are painful and itchy ..
Now I read that maybe it is some allergy to the ingredients in capsules? Will vegan vitamin D3 from Lichen be better? Or maybe instead of capsules, switch to dry tablets? Please help
On 21/01/2013 at 11:10 PM, SebumSucks said:I registered today just to tell my story that I feel compelled to share with others.
After 22 years of suffering from extremely oily skin and acne I have finally found what I believe is my own personal cure. It's been a very long road to get here and I still can't quite believe it, but Vitamin D supplements have COMPLETELY eliminated my super oily skin and acne. I'm not talking a little bit here, not a 50% or even 90% reduction. I'm talking 100%. I still can't get over it having suffered for so long.
I know some of you aren't going to believe what I just said or what I am about to explain. I would have my doubts too if I were reading this just a few months ago, but I am 100% telling the truth of my own personal experience. So here I go...
I am a male, now in my late 30's and have suffered with excessively oily skin (way way way too much sebum) and severe acne since puberty around 14yo. I have taken EVERYTHING over the years. This gets said a lot around here by 16-18 year old acne sufferers, and I can certainly sympathize, but trust me when I say I have had over 20 years of experience trying EVERYTHING from prescription meds to over the counter topicals to various supplements. I have tried every systemic and topical antibiotic prescription known for acne. I have tried every topical retinoid. I have been on 3 courses of Accutane. I have been on doctor prescribed very high doses of Vitamin A (a safe aqueous form) after my 1st course of accutane when my acne flared back up after treatment. I have tried and used many of the over the counter washes, scrubs, masks with BP, salicylic acid, tee tree, etc. over the years. Fed up with prescription meds that never fully worked (or in the case of Accutane worked only while on them), over the last few years I have also tried various supplements, including fish oil, cod liver oil, B5, vitamin B multivitamins, antioxidant multivitamins, borage oil, and others.
About 4 weeks ago I began supplementing with Vitamin D3 1000IU. Why? Well a year ago I got a blood test done showing my Vitamin D level was low. It was a 19 which is considered quite deficient (normal I think is 50-70; reference values have been upped recently). At the time my doctor prescribed Vitamin D over a 3 month period but at the time I saw no results so stopped after 2 months (this was to try resolving fatigue not acne anyway). But this winter I started reading up on Vitamin D again as my fatigue was increasing again and came to find out that the Vitamin D that is prescribed via a pharmacy is of the D2 form which some studies have now shown is ineffective in vivo. So I decided to start taking over the counter Vitamin D (in the D3 form), like I said about 4 weeks ago. Again, the intent was to possibly help with fatigue and perhaps immune support, not necessarily help with my oily skin or acne. But to my amazement, about one week in I began to see significant reduction in sebum on my skin. By week two my skin had become COMPLETELY normalized. I can't even believe I am saying that after so many years of super oily skin. The only medication capable of doing that for me is Accutane (isotretinoin). Nothing else could reduce or control sebum production for me. Not prescriptions or supplements of any kind, even B5. Remember I'm a male, so there is no other option other than Accutane for us males like BC or Spiro to try and normalize hormones/oily skin.
After taking Vitamin D for 4 weeks now my skin is tighter, smoother, looks normal, and I haven't had a new pimple of any kind surface in 2 weeks which for me is nothing short of a miracle. Most amazingly is my oily skin is completely gone and hence why I'm confident this is going to work long term for me. In fact the results, both sebum and acne elimination, are just as good if not better than Accutane (Accutane can be super drying in normal doses and can affect wound healing).
I was going to wait 3-6 months to tell my story because I know there will be naysayers that say 4 weeks isn't long enough to judge long term efficiency, or maybe this is just an anomaly, or something like that. But after 22 years I have more than enough experience with my oily skin and acne to know that this is a fundamental change in my skin that I have never seen before (other than again with Accutane usage). So I just couldn't wait that long to post. I felt compelled to do so today in the hopes that my experience might help some others right now, not months from now.
So anyway, completely amazed by this result I have experienced with Vit D I have been doing quite a bit of research online about it and the more I research the more things make sense of how this is affecting my skin. Vitamin D is actually a hormone and was mislabeled a long time ago as a vitamin because at the time researches didn't realize the body (skin) can actually produce vitamin D. In a strict sense, vitamins must be supplied by diet, while hormones are produced in the body. Now, we all know acne is a result of what is most likely an imbalance of hormones in the body. This is why it is very rare for pre-pubescents to have acne, their pubertal hormones haven't kicked in yet which is when most acne first appears.
"Vitamin" D, being a HORMONE needed in vital bodily functions, can be one of those hormones that is deficient. Vitamin D is produced via UV light action on the skin. In fact, it is produced in the oily cells (sebocytes) in the skin. Interesting but slight gross side note - I read somewhere that dogs and cats actually get their Vitamin D intake from licking the sebum on their face and hair follicles where the vitamin D is created
(their skin cannot directly absorb the vitamin D through the skin). Apparently (and luckily for most humans) human skin can directly absorb vitamin D on the skin
.
So I've been pondering, perhaps very oily skin (and associated acne) is a negative feedback of low vitamin D levels in the body. With lower and lower Vitamin D in the body, the skin produces more and more sebum in efforts to create more Vitamin D to bring the body in balance. Perhaps those like myself who have consistently super oily skin have an impairment in the ability to create or absorb Vitamin D in the skin. (I don't really see a reduction in oil during the summer when I get a fair amount of sun). For me, perhaps the only way to increase my vitamin D levels is not through sun exposure but through supplementation. There are very few sources of foods with sufficient levels of vitamin D so the only way to get it in sufficient amounts is through vitamin supplements.
In my research I also found out that Vitamin D will bind to some of the same skin cell receptors as certain forms of Retinoic Acid (one of the metabolites of Accutane). I believe this is likely why Accutane works in a similar fashion (normalizes sebum production) by binding to the same Vitamin D and related receptors in the skin. Now this is my own hypothesis here, but perhaps when those receptors have vitamin D or retinoic acid bound to them, they in essence tell the skin they have enough Vitamin D and not to produce any more sebum. Perhaps Accutane works by substituting for and mimicking Vitamin D in the skin . This could possibly explain some of the side affects of Accutane like bone and joint pain which can be a symptom of Vitamin D deficiency (accutane thereby exacerbating the Vit D deficiency). I could go on about this but this is getting a bit tangential to the subject.
Anyways, I am completely beside myself that Vitamin D has worked better than anything else out there, and that I have suffered with acne for so long due to what appears to be a simple Vit D deficiency. I really implore others to try this too. It is cheap and easy to do with no side effects. The amount I am taking is 1000IU and is considered a relatively low and completely safe dose. I am not going to state this is the cure for everyone as I am a case study of one right now (although I have read here and on other websites others having great results with Vit D as well). But if you have very oily skin, especially into adulthood, I would give vitamin D3 a try.
Not that I think it matters, but in light of full disclosure, I am taking "Natures Made" Vitamin D(3) 1000IU tablets once a day. I don't think the brand will matter so much, just make sure it is Vitamin D3 and not D2. I am also taking Safeway brand Vitamin C 500mg tablets at the same time (this is your generic ascorbic acid Vit C). Note these are run of the mill vitamin brands, not anything special. It's possible the Vitamin C is adding a synergistic affect to the Vit D; I really don't know. But I do know Vitamin C alone hasn't done squat for me over the years that I have taken it so Vitamin C alone isn't causing the amazing results I'm seeing. (I am taking Vitamin C for immune support). These are the only two supplements I am currently taking. I have dropped all topicals other than washing my face in the morning and night and have just begun moisturizing at night with Aloe Vera Gel.
I'm hoping others will try this as perhaps this might be the solution for them as well. I'd be more than happy to answer anyone's questions.
Thank you for your post. My history is almost identical to yours. I have started vitamin d and seeing Instant results. Thanks to your post I may finally get my life back.
I have been experiencing calf pains, muscle aches, depression, etc sinc 2013. I noticed my D3 was low on lab results, so I began taking D32000IU. Within 3 days I noticed remarkable change. However, I also began getting OILY skin, just the opposite of most experiences here. I began getting acne and am 53 years old with almost no history of adult acne. Additionally, I have been getting daily sore in my mouth, different spots, commonly called kankers I believe. I am reducing my amount of D3 and do not get tested again for levels for 2 more months. Anyway, I just wanted to pass on that the D3 has an effect on the Sebum from what I have noticed, but in my case I am producing more. Which I may add, is kinda nice, as my skin seems much better except the acne and sores.
