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Originally Posted by Mcharris
Thanks for replying again.
I am taking 1 x day multi B
I did NOT begin self using B12 until after I had the blood draw so what is reflected in the test results was ACCURATE for that point in time.
What is interesting .... a slightly off topic, but highly appropriate me thinks:
I am prescribed 5mg Folic Acid by my GP 1 x daily
This was suggested to the GP by the hospital dietician as a possible means to lower my homocystein (which by the way was never measured UNTILL I asked for it last week) but it was posited that if my cholesterol was high... which it is according to docs here (thats another topic all together) then high cholesterol = high homocystein because of inflammation.......
The point being they have never really checked my folate levels properly recently, so I have stopped the 5mg tablets and will ask for a test for folate before I go back onto them.
Will write more soon
 Cheer's from Clare in Tassie |
Hi Clare,
That's interesting. (All of it, I mean.)
It's good you're taking a multi B. Is that sort of what we call a Mega B? I mean, it's all B vitamins, and not a variety of different vitamins?
I wonder if it would make a difference it you took more than one of those a day.
Before I had the regular shots, I misunderstood and thought I could raise my B12 level by taking Mega B vitamins. So I was taking a lot of them with a huge amount of liquid. I didn't have the highest dosage ones, because I wanted to take them often with a lot of liquid. What came of that was that it got rid of my allergies. Completely. It did not raise my B12 level one single point.
Okay, so I mention that because that's what I did before I started with the B12 shots. So that may have changed how the shots were accepted by my body.
Even now I take 3 to 4 Jarrow B-Rights a day because I don't want to have allergies again. So that may be why it works for me to have so much B12, in nearly daily shots.
Did you stop taking the Folic acid because you suspected it was causing some of the problem? I just checked my B-Right formula, and it has 400 mcg of Folic acid... so even taking 4 a day I'm getting 1.6 mg, which is not as much as you.
Are you feeling better than you were? I was really worried about you from your first post.