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Old 12-24-2006, 08:34 AM
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Hi,
I started reading your thread wondering if your problem was going to be a prolapse. I've had a bit of experience with that.

But... no, something quite different.

By the end of the thread, when two of you had mentioned antidepressants, I wondered if the ob/gyn problem could be nerve related.

I wondered that because there are a lot of nerve symptoms when someone is low on vitamin B12, and a huge symptom of low B12 is depression.

If you aren't taking Methylcobalamin, that's the best form of the vitamin to take, then I would get some if I were you. I'd get the sublinguals just in case you have no intrinsic factor, or not as much as you need.

Another way to tell if you have low B12 is if you have ridges on your fingernails, or if you are losing the moons on your fingernails. If you have either of those things, then check the whole list of symptoms.

Vitamin B12 is much more tricky than the other B vitamins because the process to get it out of food is complicated and as we age our ability to do it effectively decreases. So slowly, very slowly over time we have less and less B12 in our bodies because it slowly leaches out of all the muscle and tissue where it's supposed to be.

The other thing is that stress seems to use it up really fast.

When you get the methylcobalamin, keep some notes on your symptoms. That way you'll be able to see what it actually does for you.

Since low B12 affects memory, keeping notes can be quite revealing. In a very good way.

I hope this uncomfortable problem goes away for you!
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