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Old 03-12-2009, 11:57 AM #11
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well maybe not "body builder" , but I did gain considerable size lifting weights a for a couple years, but I stopped last year when I got shoulder tendinitis...

you mentioned that b12 deficency does not happen over night. I certainly agree with that, but I would think my symptoms would be gradual, as the levels dropped. but my "burning" skin sensation came on rather quickly. Sometimes I wonder if low b12 is even the culprit... but I've had so many tests, and everything is coming up normal, except my b12 was at 260.

I've read other b12 suffer stories and mine seem so different, which is only reinforcing my concern. Have you ever heard of a rapid onset of symptoms that I had (and painful) and it be because of low b12?

I mean I am feeling better , the pain has diminished greatly since my last b12 injection, which suggests it was my low b12 level... but my crazy paranoid mind thinks maybe increasing my b12 is just "masking" the symptoms and there is something else going on. (I warned I was a hypochondriac!!)

does my symptoms sound typical of a b12 problem?
You don't know how long you have been low. By the time people get tested they can have low levels for years. When the serum gets low, then the spinal fluid gets low, since it transports B12 from the serum.

Even if your problem is something else, at least you are fixing something that may impact you later down the road.

Rapid onset of symptoms may be due to a trigger. Most likely viral. I just had a horrid sore throat... with a terrible fever, and during that fever I had the worst all over burning I have ever had. I finally got antibiotics for it, but the thought is that it was viral, then complicated by bacteria. The burning left, and I am still recovering and being able to swallow again. I think it is a reactivated Epstein Barr Virus, because I had a terrible throat like this when I had Mono in college.

People get viruses all the time.
But the folks who come here with body burning all report rapid progression, and puzzlement as to what triggered it.
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