Hi Hemse,

Don't just learn to live with it! You're at the right place to get helpful ideas!

Mrs. D. has great info, including info from "Rose", about how a Vitamin B12 deficiency causes terrible peripheral neuropathies. See Mrs. D's "sticky" thread about this.

Have you had the 3 blood tests (in one needle stick) to see if you might have a Vitamin B12 deficiency? (all 3 are necessary)

1) Vit. B12 blood level test
2) MMA/Methyl Malonic Acid blood level test
3) Hcy/Homocysteine blood level test

(Mrs. D. and Rose, or anyone,-- if I made any typos about this, let me know).

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Cara knows very much, about how a GLUTEN SENSITIVITY (&/or milk protein sensitivity, etc.) can cause small intestinal mal-absorption, including Vit. B12 deficiency, leading to all kinds of neurological problems.

Do you eat gluten? (a protein-like substance in wheat, rye, barley, "cross contaminated" oats, etc.)

Do you eat or drink milk products (containing milk proteins)?

If you're "sensitive" to gluten &/or milk proteins, then eating or drinking these proteins, can cause various auto-immune attacks on many areas of the body---including the pancreas, causing DIABETES, &/or the THYROID GLAND, &/or JOINTS (causing rheumatoid arthritis), &/or BRAIN (causing seizures, foot dragging, wide based gait, etc.), &/or SKIN (itchy rash called Dermatitis herpetiformis I believe) &/or SMALL INTESTINE (causing either Celiac Disease, or a non-Celiac type of small intestinal damage, INLCLUDING "MAL-ABSORPTION" PROBLEMS), &/or REFLUX, &/OR PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES!)

See Dr. Kenneth Fine's "EnteroLab" website, about non-invasive stool sample testing, to discover food protein "sensitivities", at www.finerhealth.com (Cara first told us about this website, and about Dr. Fine, MD--gastroenterologist out of Dallas, TX)

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Do you take ACID BLOCKERS for ulcers &/or for GASTRIC REFLUX? If yes: These prevent the stomach from making "Intrinsic Factor" molecules, which are needed to escort dietary Vitamin B12 from the stomach to the last part of the small intestine (ileum), where the Intrinsic Factor molecules would let go of their cargo--Vit. B12 molecules--and the Intrinsic Factor molecules then "facilitate" absorption of the Vit. B12 molecules, into the microscopic finger-like projections called "villi", where the B12 goes into a tiny capillary within each "villus", leading to getting the B12 into the bloodstream, and eventually into storage areas in the liver.

You found this great website here, so don't give up!

Carol
concerned lady
http://cantbreathesuspectvcd.com