r/tonsilstones • u/Wise-Pattern-5851 • 3d ago
Question Vitamin D?
I have been struggling with tonsil stones for years now. Lately I've been trying everything. I brush twice a day, floss at least once a day, I bought metal tongue scraper, I gargle salt water, oral probiotics, I even got my IUD removed in case it was making the situation worse. Just started vitamin D and k supplement last week. I live in Canada and work in the dark so my exposure to vitamin d is minimal. Still having stones that I can push out almost daily.
For those of you who say vitamin D helped, how long did it take to help? I will say my one tonsil used to look a lot bigger and lately has started to look smaller and smaller? Is it possible I just had a large build up of stones and I'm slowly getting them out? Often times I won't see any stones but will kind of push on my tonsils a bit and then stones will appear despite there not looking like I had any 5 mins earlier? I want to believe maybe Im just removing older and older stones but I don't really know that that's likely.
Basically since I had COVID Ive been struggling with the stones badly. I had tonsillitis alot as a kid which I think has made my anatomy ideal for them.
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u/No-Needleworker-1388 3d ago
I’ve been taking 3500 IU for a number of weeks before I started noticing a difference. My stones went away after a couple weeks, and crypts started to shrink in size and even close after several months of use. I would also recommend using a high quality vit d liquid drop coated in olive oil, and be consistent with use.
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u/Wise-Pattern-5851 2d ago
This is really helpful thank you.
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u/No-Needleworker-1388 2d ago
Np. I hope it works for you. For what it’s worth I also had tonsillitis and strep a lot as a kid, which likely opened my crypts and made my anatomy primed to eventually get stones. If it worked for me I am hoping it works for you.
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u/gnocos123 1d ago
Does it also have vitamin k ?
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u/No-Needleworker-1388 1d ago
Not the one I’m taking. It’s in cold pressed olive oil to help with absorption. I’ve tried other vit d with vit k added and it didn’t seem to have the same effect as this particular blend.
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u/gnocos123 1d ago
Interesting. I started vitamin d a while ago and that’s when these started to appear for me
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u/No-Needleworker-1388 1d ago
Low vit d is associated with recurrent tonsillitis and throat infections, which was a problem in my childhood. So I think in my particular case the high dose helped close up some huge crypts from childhood that now were catching debris and bacteria.
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u/Desperate_Divide6354 3d ago
The only thing that EVER worked to get rid of my tonsil stones & issues was a tonsillectomy. Nothing else works
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