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Originally Posted by reverett123
About five years before my first symptoms in 1992, I went to my GP complaining of being run down and was diagnosed with anemia of an unusual sort whose name I don't remember. It was not "pernicious" and it was serious enough to worry the doc. I had been eliminating red meat from my diet the past few months and felt the obvious thing to do was to bring it back. I did so and, much to the doc's relief, returned to normal.
I now eat red meat regularly and even crave it.
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Rick,
This also happened to me. This runs in my mother's family so I am susceptible to this, and to add insult to injury, I was watching the red meat because of high cholesteral. My B12 dropped dangerously low and I became very run down. My first neuro didn't even bother checking the levels, but 2 years ago, when I went to the current neuro at Lahey Clinic, the first thing she did was send me for blood work. After the discovery of low B12, I had 1-1/2 years of montly shots and now take a supplement.
I've also said to heck with the reduced amount of red meat, and have gained back my weight again. I didn't have much in the first place, and what I lost made me look even sicker. I think I went from 150 lbs down to around 127 lbs. At that time, both my neuro and my PC doctor were concerned that I would wither up and disappear.
Now everyone that sees me remarks at how good I look with the extra meat on my bones.
John