Hi Deb

Boy, I got goosebumps reading your post about freckles. You should see my bumpy arms. (Best not, though.)

When I was really B12 deficient I had so many brown spots that I thought exactly the same thing: connect the dots...

Then at that time there was a brief news segment on how people with more of them tended to be more likely to get cancer.

So I went to my doctor who pooh-poohed them saying they were nothing but sebacious keritosis...(a spelling something like that.)

But then after the neurologist told me to have more B12, I noticed that a particular set of the brown spots that had been nearly a perfect circle was missing two of its spots...

I had a lot of them go away, but then when I was so sick and taking so much B12 some of the time... I would feel guilty about the huge amount and not take it for awhile... then I'd get all the symptoms too badly to keep not taking so much, and the brown spots would come back.

Now they don't go away as much as they used to, they just fade a little.

((((((((Deb)))))))))

I don't know what to tell you, except that I think there's some sort of connection between brown spots and low B12...

Oh, I think I read a blurb in a book that was at my doctor's. I read it while waiting to see her. She's the one who gave me the prescription for a shot a day for a year.

The blurb said that the spots ARE related to low B12 in some way, but I forget precisely what the book said.