It’s All in the Delivery
About four years ago, my doctor put me on a new maintenance medication and some Vitamin D3 to help with its absorption. Over the next few months, we tweaked the dose a bit, but I’ve been on this combo ever since. I’ve compared my results to others on the same medication but without the D3, and my results have been much better than theirs Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago: after some 3½ years without changes, I noticed that the meds didn’t seem to be working as well. I wondered if it might be time to up my dose, but then something occurred to me: the last time I picked up my prescriptions, the Vitamin D I usually take was out of stock, so they substituted a different kind. Could that be the culprit? I called my pharmacy and asked if there was any significant difference between what I currently have and what I usually get. They transferred me to the actual pharmacist, who looked it up and responded in the negative: they’re the same dose; they’re from the same manufacturer; they p...