[QUOTE=glenntaj;934351]--major vitamin and mineral deficiency, secondary to the IBS, and most likely related to low B12 levels, low magnesium levels, and possibly low levels of other vitamins and minerals, very much fits the symptom profile, too.

Have you been given comprehensive work-up for vitamin/mineral levels? What were your levels of D and B12 on the lab reports (which you should make sure you always get and keep copies of)?

And, have you been titred up for celiac, or had an endoscopy done to look for for that? Symptom profile strongly suggests that, too.

Malabsorption can certainly produce the range of neuromuscular symptoms you've listed.

You should come over and read some of our info in the Vitamin/Mineral/Supplement and the Peripheral Neuropathy sections here--very thorough and enlightening:


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Vit D was 16.8
B12 was only 403, but because my homocysteine was slightly elevated at 15.64, he is calling my B12 low.
B6 is normal at 6.9
T4 is all normal
M-Malonic is normal at 118

Never been worked up for Celiac, but I did have a colonoscopy in 2007 when i was first dx'd. Of course, because of the allergies, they wouldn't sedate me, so the colonoscopy wasn't as indepth (haha, get it?!) as they would have liked.