It wasn't my intention to put the cat amongst the pigeon's on this subject, but open debate without getting overly  zealous, allows folk to make up their own minds.

To agree too disagree is the best policy.

Hoppy

Well said Barbara !
Any one denying another to be pain free, at the expense of personal beliefs , needs to take a good long look at them self and there motives !
To compare prednisone, imitrex and worse, with  there known side effects, well, its a no brainer !
If the vit D cuts my life span short by a few years ( to date, no proven scientific evidence of such) Then at least I will live a relatively comfortable pain free life until then !
It reminds me when those on shore shouted to columbus " your going to fall off the edge of the earth" as the boat sailed into the distance, who would have thought the world was actually round !!!    The people believed that because it was written ! by the so called scholars of the time.
I pity those type of people with the inability to grasp possibilities and potentials in life without reverting to pre historic educational facts that have out lived there use by date. Instead of grasping something new, with huge potential, they shoot it down without so much as an enquiring mind, because only the drug companies and the scholars of the day" are allowed invent, discover and find alternatives, like the preventative Vit D regime, This becomes a huge threat to the academics with extreme ego's !!!  That's a fact !


regards
colin