Vitamin D level testing in Canada

[midnightwriter]

Has anyone done it? I was told that it costs the province $500 to do the test, and they won't do it, unless a vitamin D allergy was suspected.

It seems like everyone south of the border gets theirs tested.

[abemom2]

I asked my Dr. to recommend it, and she actually listened! I just got the results for the iron, but I see they didn't include the D, so I'll need them to call the hospital to get those results.
They tested:
Vt. D 1, 25 Dihydroxy and
Vitamin D 25 Hydoxy

I'm in QC.
Good LUck!

[springmum]

I'm in Ontario & just asked my dr for a blood work-up of iron & vit d...he didn't even bat an eye, just wrote up the lab form.

[abemom2]

Correction to what was really done: They checked the regular D and it was fine, so they didn't do the rest. That's what my Dr. told me Friday. I don't have $$ for it now. What I'll do in a few months is through the Vit D council. A year and a half ago I tested in the US, (there they're much better, and my oldest and I were both in the 20's, that's why I don't understand how here it came out fine.)

Part of living in Canada with govt. medicine. (Looks like this is what the US might be like in the near future!)

Good Luck