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Originally Posted by Mcharris
I have been reading all the posts about B12 deficiency....... and wondered if you could point me to a website/reference that shows moons and ridges are damaged/missing with B12 deficiency? I have pictures of my thumbs and fingers if anyone can 'read' them.
Also I am curious if anyone has had Hcy and MMA testing done? I truly believe that I may well be seriously B12 deficient even with a reading of 500+
I have given myself a B12 injection .... one every other day (3 in all) these last few days but seem to get worse symptoms after each injection. Symptoms like a sore tongue, extreme chilling coldness, headache, pounding in my chest........ this is most frightening. Anyone care to speculate?
Thanks for listening.
Clare in Tasmania
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Well, thanks to Curious I was able to see your fingernails quite clearly.
Yes, you don't have moons on any fingers but your thumbs, except maybe there was the tiniest one on another finger, it was hard to tell, and is hard to tell even in real life.
My moons will be coming back, then if there is a lot of stress they will disappear again. (Right now mine are not flourishing.)
The other thing I notice in your images, is the very bright/dark coloring at the top of your nails... My nails were very much like that when I had the intense fatigue and pretty intense pain in my left arm.
Sadly I did a bad job of showing the changes because a part of that time I didn't have electric and it was really hard to charge my camera or use my computer.
But, when I look at my nails now, they are no longer like that, so I think all the additional rest and B12 helped. I'm not having the pain in my left arm any more, nor is my chin feeling as if it is cramping.
If you can rest, seriously rest, like stay in bed and read or watch telly, I think it would be best if you do that as well as supplement.
I sure hope you post that you are feeling better.
I just went back to your images, looking at them the way that Curious suggested, and I see that you do have ridges. Your ridges aren't as bad as mine were when I first began to wonder if they had something to do with how bad I was feeling, both physically and psychologically.
I'm worried about your chest pain. When I had that I went to the doctor several times, and they did heart tests that showed nothing wrong.
I know that being scared tends to make our hearts pound harder. But the thing is that even former President Clinton had all sorts of heart tests done, that presumably showed nothing, just before he had the major episode that resulted in heart surgery. So I'm not sure the tests are altogether useful.
I would say you had better rest, though. It took my problems like that quite a long time to go away this summer. I sure wish I'd had electric and had recorded pictures of my nails the whole time.