Low Vitamin D Can Make Sleep Apnea Worse

If you have sleep apnea and you don't get much sun exposure, you should take vitamin D3 or go to a tanning salon and start building a mild tan. Low vitamin D does influence the control of breathing when you go into sleep. I was getting bad apneas when I would just dose off into light sleep. I would go to long without breathing and then wake up in bad shape. I saw a post on this site and it gave a link to a series of youtube videos of this doctor giving a presentation of how she figured out that Vitamin D influences sleep apnea. It took a month or two before I could see that the Vitamin D was reducing my severity of my apneas when I would dose off into light sleep. Is my sleep apnea cured. No, but it sure is not as severe as it used to be.

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Here is the video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7cbBB1c0IM

Thanks for bring this up. My doctor gave me prescription for 50,000 units of vitamin D that I have to take every week. My level was 10.7 the standard range is 31.0 to 80.0.

Which reminds me I forgot to take mine this week.

I will do anything that helps.

Bill, what effect has that dose had on your D levels? What effect on your AHI? I believe you, but am curious!

If you treat the sleep apnea properly, sleep apnea wont be a problem even if you have low vitamin levels. Jim