[mrsD]

The ranges were done many years ago, and were not done on people who take vitamins. So someone on vitamins would be expected to test higher than someone not taking them.

That is not really high. Most labs go up to 90 or 100 for B6 as normal. I wouldn't worry about it. You need some B6 to make serotonin. Recommendations today are to stay under 100mg a day of B6. I wouldn't worry about it at this time. You can stop your multivitamins if you want, if they are high in folic acid and B6, but that is really up to you.

I would think about magnesium however. Because when that is low, all sorts of nasty things happen, strange sensations, muscle twitches, muscle cramps, low energy etc.

One of the hundreds of chemical reactions in the body dependent on magnesium is making serotonin also.
http://www.kospublishing.com/html/mag.html

This is my B6 thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread30724.html

[julleri]

Originally Posted by mrsD

The ranges were done many years ago, and were not done on people who take vitamins. So someone on vitamins would be expected to test higher than someone not taking them.

That is not really high. Most labs go up to 90 or 100 for B6 as normal. I wouldn't worry about it. You need some B6 to make serotonin. Recommendations today are to stay under 100mg a day of B6. I wouldn't worry about it at this time. You can stop your multivitamins if you want, if they are high in folic acid and B6, but that is really up to you.

I would think about magnesium however. Because when that is low, all sorts of nasty things happen, strange sensations, muscle twitches, muscle cramps, low energy etc.

One of the hundreds of chemical reactions in the body dependent on magnesium is making serotonin also.
http://www.kospublishing.com/html/mag.html

This is my B6 thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread30724.html

Hi MrsD,

I just came back from a follow up visit with the GI doctor I saw and he said that if anything I should work on getting the B12 DOWN. Of course I knew that this is ridiculous since there is no upper limit on B12. He wasn't concerned about the high B6, though, but I still am. He isn't a neurologist, though, so he may not know.

As far as my endoscopy is concerned everything he said is normal. And the bloodwork he took was normal, too. it did include magnesium. The level was 2.3, with a ref. range of 1.7 - 2.4 mg/dL. My zinc was normal too (forgot where I read it but sometimes people can get zinc deficiencies, too, which can be a problem).

I'm guessing then that nearly all (if not all entirely - probably) ... all of my symptoms are related to the adverse reaction I had to antidepressants and the withdrawal that I'm going through now. It's just so scary! The nerve pain for instance feels like little beestings on my skin. Parasthesias? And last night I had a terrible spell where I had little memory, could hardly think, felt totally unreal and like my brain was just deteriorating (like Alzhemiers or something). I still feel pretty shaken today from it. But at least all these tests are showing things not out of the ordinary anymore.

It does take a while after reaching high B12 levels for B12 to make serious positive changes in the body, too, I am gathering.

Anyway, just had to share what this doctor said with regards to "high B12" -- I thought of you when he said it was "too high" lol.

[mrsD]

I agree about the B12.... don't change anything there.

Doctors have "learned" to follow lab ranges, like blind men.
Even though they don't understand the ranges or how old they are or how they were developed.

Just because you were flagged high doesn't mean ANYTHING negative. It does mean you are absorbing the B12 and that is the only significant feature of that test.
There is not ONE study showing high B12 is harmful on PubMed over many many years in many countries. Our own FDA has no upper limit on B12 intake for this reason.

So your doctor is probably just misinformed. This is pretty common. My own doctor scoffed at me taking the 5mg oral Puritan's Pride methylB12... as a test. She claimed emphathically that B12 is not absorbed from supplements. Well I proved HER wrong. She was very sheepish with my test results of 1999 after 3 months.