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Originally Posted by Just Jacquie
Then I asked him if he was hearing voices again, and he said yes. (
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Dear Jacquie,
Ask the pdoc to do a blood test for B 12. Also check for Vit D and other hormones:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...hort/157/4/660
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Once the organic nature of her psychiatric illness was realized, the patient was given vitamin B12 supplementation. Within 2 days the strength in her lower extremities had improved. Within 2 months her psychosis was completely resolved, and her only remaining deficit was unilateral weakness of the lower extremities and ataxia, although it was considerably less severe than when she was first seen.
We can only assume that had her psychosis been recognized and treated as a symptom of vitamin B12 deficiency much earlier, a complete reversal of her symptoms might have been expected (3, 4). As it is, only time will reveal whether her remaining neurological deficits are temporary.
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Mari