b12

‘I thought my brain fog was dementia until I discovered it was a vitamin deficiency’

Editor’s summary Vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to neurological deficits, sometimes in the absence of anemia, and mice and patients with mutations in the transcobalamin receptor CD320 do not develop anemia, suggesting that the mechanisms governing B12 uptake in different tissues are not fully...

NICE Draft guidelines for Vitamin B12 Deficiency out for consultation Guideline webpage : https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10176 Expected publication date: 16 January 2024 Vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16s: diagnosis and management

This is a good article on B12 deficiency. It could be of interest to anyone with loss of feeling in the extremities, tremor, depression, fibromyalgia and other symptoms. Treating serious vitamin B12 deficiency

A blood test has shown that I'm deficient in B12. The possible cause is being investigated but meanwhile, my doctor wants me to go on high-dose B12 for 3 months. I started on pure cyanocobalamin drops (no additives, just in water) and worked up to the dose of 1,000mg/day gradually over a week...

Functional Vitamin B12 deficiency in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome International Journal of Psychiatry - Gregory Russell-Jones.(2022). Int J Psychiatry 7(3): 153-158. See...

Abstract Objective To assess the association between vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency and the prevalence of fatigue and prespecified neurologic symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia. Patients and Methods A retrospective chart analysis of patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia in the years 2015-2020...

Threads about articles and people's experiences with LDN have been merged into this single thread. Medscape: Low-dose Naltrexone Explored as Option for Chronic Pain (by Miriam Tucker) Miriam Tucker's third article from the recent 2- day summit at the Bateman-Horne Center Low-dose Naltrexone...

Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698772100061X

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2019.01102/full

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124648 Abstract Background Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) may respond most favorably to frequent vitamin B12 injections, in vital combination with oral folic acid. However...

I just learned that my doctor prescribe 1mg methylcobalamin once/month for me. What dose (in mg) do you use? How often do you inject it?

Martyn Hooper Chair of Pernicious Anaemia Society on new NICE guidelines for ME: "Last week I was at a NICE consultation which was looking at the problems with the diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalopathy (or encephalomyelitis). Because there are so many contentious issues concerning the disease...

I was shopping at a store other than my usual one and I accidentally bought some cyanocobalamin. It is red. It is in a brown bottle. I was at a Whole Foods and I didn't think they would carry cyanocobalamin. (OK, I wasn't thinking much at all.) I have opened it, so I can't take it back. Is...