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Originally Posted by darlindeb25
Thank you Paul and Glenn, and this is so true: I didn't know to ask for a B12 test, that's why I was going to doctors! They failed me, I really don't feel I failed me. I started taking B12 to help myself because I felt no one else was helping. Now, I may never know if I have a true deficiency, although, being a celiac, and having been undiagnosed for so many years, there really is no doubt in my mind that I was deficient of many vitamins and minerals. I know the B12 has helped me. My regular doctor, doesn't doubt the fact that it is helping me, my neurologist I also, doesn't doubt it is helping me. He left the decision to stay with B12 pills or to have the shots, up to me. From here, I guess I stay with what I am doing.
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hello,and i say ,,you go girl, just look at the people who go to one doctor after another, getting nothing but misgiagnosed, as i was, i suffered with severe depression, anorexia, psychosis, hearing god and the devil talking to me, sure wish those doctors could have shared in that, plus lots other stuff. look at the ones who are left with permanent paralysis, take the case historys in sallys book, look where alot of us would be, if we didn't give ourselves permission, to try something as harmless as b12, and if it helps, and you see symptoms disapearing, then you have gotten your diagnosis, i really peeved my doctors off, cause when asked who was monitoring my b12, i said i was and will continue to do so, they couldn't diagnose it , when present with classic symptoms, such as headache, visual disturbance, numbness and tingling, other things, plus old lab work that told them i had moderate macrocytosis, plus in there own handwriting, they suspected i had b6 or b12 def, guess they figured not important enough to test me, then a year later, i'm checking myself into the psych ward in 1994. so will i trust ignorant b12 uneducated doctors of pharmacology, to treat me, and they don't know how to treat it,NO WAY.forgot to say i have pernicous anemia, at the time my level was 55. if you are b12 defiecient, taking b12, go in for blood work, haha they tell you,, you normal, you can go off your b12,, DON;T LISTEN.