[Geraldine]

For a long time I've been questioning my B12 levels. I have taken vitamins, stopped them, started them again, stopped them, and it keeps going...

Back in June I got tested. My B12 levels came back as HIGH. My number was over 1300. At the time, I had been using a whole food vitamin and probably taking sublinguals at the same time. So I stopped taking them.

In July I had my wisdom teeth removed and took amoxocillin. Afterward I got an ingrown toenail and started feeling pain in my second toenails. I stopped other meds, and had already stopped vitamins.

In October I was diagnosed with morton's neuroma. I was getting married and couldn't walk right in my shoes. In November I started getting numb feet. I was diagnosed with neuropathy. I started taking my*vitamins again. And I started seeing a hormone doctor.

In December, On Christmas Day, I received a vitamin B complex injection. My neuropathy got better over the next few weeks. In January I had a bunch of blood tests. My vit B12 (on the same scale as the past June) was at 601. So... June 2011 it was over 1300, 1329 to be exact. July after my tooth surgery I started feeling things... After my injection I felt somewhat better. In January my level was at 601. I had also been using my sublinguals again, and had discontinued those maybe a week before the test. That is a pretty big drop isn't it... from over 1300 to 600 in half a year? And I had recently had an injection and been taking sublinguals. I am thinking I might have been very low, after the surgery and bad diet, and the injection and oral vits increased the number for a short while. After I stopped the vits for the test, I didn't start taking them again. And the numbness returned after a while. So I've started the methyl B12 sublinguals the past couple weeks. My mouth has also started, since late Jan., to be sore, and that has increased through Feb and March, only to get an increasingly sore tongue/mouth. (Have read that low B12 and something about B6 could cause this).

I also have felt that I might not absorb B6 well. I recently had a test for that but do not have the results. I am calling tomorrow for those results. Whenever I take B6 I seem to feel worse. I continue to suspect the B vits. I know I have an autoimmune disorder, but I don't know HOW it could cause every one of my problems when those blood tests seem to show it is not currently active (my rheum says according to my tests it is not very active?)

One more thing...I have had recent blood tests since this past summer that show my white and red blood cells plus my hematocrit and my total lymphocytes are low... suggesting anemia? But my hemoglobin is normal. Before these past two tests, my levels were normal range (although low normal range). But this past couple tests they have been low, I am wondering now if this is pernicious anemia and I am not absorbing things correctly, especially the vit Bs. I was told yes, I show anemia, but nothing was made of it and I wasn't told to do anything different. This might answer a whole lot of questions, am I anemic because I don't absorb vitB? And is it possible to have a high vitB12 level because of taking vitamins or maybe it's showing in your blood but is not being absorbed properly?

And am I having problems with VitB 6 at all? I don't feel well when I take the multi Vit B.

Looking forward to your comments. As I continue to sort through all this.