Karen,

What do you think of Daniella's situation?

rose

Karen,

Please clarify your reason for disagreement. Of course people died of pernicious anemia when untreated. They still do if they don't get enough B12 through treatment.

If intrinsic factor were necessary for people to use B12, all the methylcobalamin in the world wouldn't help them. So, I'm not sure what you mean.

rose

Rose I'm sorry I'm confused. I have been on both regularly the b12 and b complex and had 3 blood works after the original one of 2000 when I was taking only the b complex. Now my b12 is 1500. I had only stopped the complex for a week and that was a few months ago. The 3 recent blood works were in the past month or so. I think I did read though that you can have normal or high levels but still not absorb?
Darlindeb25 are you out in the sun a lot? I do know some people with age get birth marks or moles I think with age so maybe the same with freckles. Have you been to dermatologist?

Hi Rose,

First, I don't think that you and I are going to say things exactly the same unless we cut and paste from each other.

Which reminds me, are you saying in an earlier post that you actually wrote those little history blurbs I have on my site, that I copied from some other site?

Let me know, I'd be glad to give you credit.

In terms of saying things the same, I used to go with a man who had owned a chemical company in Dallas, who wanted to be a professional handicapper. So we went to the races every day that they were on, and I regularly handicapped 12 races, many with 12 horses. Big time work.

But the thing was that he hated it if I'd picked a different horse to win than he had.

So, I started handicapping for a longshot to show. And I did pretty good.

You remind me of him because you get so upset if I don't say things exactly like you.

I'm sorry I upset you.

Okay... here's one place where our web sites are different:

Yours says


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To me that is misleading. My mother had perncious anemia; until I had B12 replacement for quite a significant amount of b12, I had blue under my little fingernail that was nearly purple...

To me the other people you mention who were dying could have lacked hydrochloric acid and were therefore malabsorbing... and in the end dying.

I don't really know of any cases where someone had pernicious anemia and their blood work was normal in terms of the size of the corpuscles.

The larger corpuscles make for a lot of problems for people who suffer macrocytic anemia with their low B12.

That's why on my site I have the following on my B12 Malabsorption page


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The thing about B12 that is tricky is that there are so many ways that people can become short of it, and there are so many ways the disorder can manifest in different people.

My intention with my web site is to help people see how it works so that they can pay more attention to it.

That's why I've worked so hard on having my site be visual...