deficient

Late March was our 50th reunion for college. One of the old friends I met there was chatting about her vitamin D experience: she had discovered she was deficient, and had needed a booster course to bring her back up to normal levels. She mentioned some of the symptoms: fatigue, bone pain, muscle weakness,... I recognised some of those symptoms, although I hadn't realised the pain near the top of my pelvis I was having might be bone pain: I didn't know bones could hurt! Muscles yes. Joints yes. But bones themselves?The conversation stayed in my mind; the fatigue was getting me down, and the (bone?) pain seemed to be getting a bit worse. Mybe it wasn't just the decrepitude of old age. I don't get a lot of sunshine (I'm in the UK, after all), but I have been trying to eat food with good vitamin D levels, such as oily fish. But maybe that's not been enough.So I booked a blood test, and I had a blood sample taken on Tuesday morning. They said I should get my results in a week. But…