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Originally Posted by darlindeb25
Karen--that is a great website, I have saved it for reading later today. So much of it is making sense to me. I know I have an absorption problem, I have for years. I take a sublingual liquid B-Complex daily, which gives me 2400mcg of B12 and still, I have the ridged fingernails, the missing half moons, the brown spots on my hands, maybe even my arms, memory loss, confusion--so much makes sense.
Can I ask a silly question? Do some of us freckle with age? I used to tease my sister and my daughter so much about their freckles. I used to tease them that I could use a marker and play dot to dot games with their freckles and not, I see I am just as freckled as they are--all over, just like them, I never was before. Not so much my legs, but my face, neck, and arms are covered with freckles now--maybe it's paybacks for teasing!  |
Hi Deb
Boy, I got goosebumps reading your post about freckles. You should see my bumpy arms. (Best not, though.)
When I was really B12 deficient I had so many brown spots that I thought exactly the same thing: connect the dots...
Then at that time there was a brief news segment on how people with more of them tended to be more likely to get cancer.
So I went to my doctor who pooh-poohed them saying they were nothing but sebacious keritosis...(a spelling something like that.)
But then after the neurologist told me to have more B12, I noticed that a particular set of the brown spots that had been nearly a perfect circle was missing two of its spots...
I had a lot of them go away, but then when I was so sick and taking so much B12 some of the time... I would feel guilty about the huge amount and not take it for awhile... then I'd get all the symptoms too badly to keep not taking so much, and the brown spots would come back.
Now they don't go away as much as they used to, they just fade a little.
((((((((Deb)))))))))
I don't know what to tell you, except that I think there's some sort of connection between brown spots and low B12...
Oh, I think I read a blurb in a book that was at my doctor's. I read it while waiting to see her. She's the one who gave me the prescription for a shot a day for a year.
The blurb said that the spots ARE related to low B12 in some way, but I forget precisely what the book said.