This is interesting .Melatonin.Should I be consulting a doctor before taking it ..or is it safe to go ahead and take it?Is there any kind of dosage?

Just browsed on Internet ..looks like Melatonin helps in Migraines too.

REAL IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Different people need differing doses of melatonin....I cannot take more than 300 MICROgrams whereas some people need a lot more

If I take a higher dose, I dont sleep as well and I am groggy and fuzzy next day, whereas the 300mcg before bed (my son takes 600mcg) works just great!

Chemar, Thank you for sharing ..
I guess we'll start with a smaller dose first and see how it goes.

I was going to mention about melatonin, but was just not feeling well enough to post for a couple days...

I was going to mention that I used to take the 3mg. But then when I read the material in... I forget where I read it, but maybe Prevention magazine, about less being more, I switched to the 1mg, and they work just great.

But... I'm also taking more magnesium now. I take it when I have Vitamin C during the day, or calcium.

Just to give an update ...

my wife has been experiencing a lot more symptoms in last 3 days or so...
- shortness in breath...once in a while
- pain in left leg and arm has increased ...
( she used to feel that couple of months ago before starting b12).
- sleeplessness
- had a terrible body ache (over entire body) early in the morning ..was unable to getup from the bed.
- feeling weird
- feeling uneasy in stomach for last 3 days..(pain)

Again , it's not that she never had all the above symptoms..she used to feel like that before taking b12 frequently. But her condition like this has been first time(bad health continuously for 3 days) after she started methyl-b12 dose(2 months ago...2000mcg/day).

I have read in this forum that symptoms might get worse after someone starts b12.but on our last visit to the doc. , i asked this question, his answer was ..it depends!....

Hi Med,

Boy, the thing about her stomach is worrying to someone who had tetanus because I never felt my stomach feel that way until I had tetanus, and it was a very unsettling feeling.

Is there any chance your wife has a wound that she doesn't feel because of peripheral nueropathy numbness?

Tetanus is very uncommon... but not unheard of.

Has she had a Tetanus shot in the last ten years? (I hadn't had one in 30 years.)



Second thought: has she taken extra vitamin C or magnesium? Those things can make my stomach feel weird ... but it usualluy goes away in a couple of hours.


I'm not a believer in the gets worse before it gets better frame of thought.

B12 has always helped me get better, and once I saw how much more of it helped me, I wished that I'd had more earlier on.


Do you guys drink tea at all? In England people would serve a sweet cup of tea with milk when things were stressful, and it was very calming.


When I have the pain in my left arm thing, which began when there was inordinate stress, I have an extra B12 shot... and it helps.



Weird noise here, better go check it....

ConsiderThis,

Every word and experience of forum users is helpful

To answer your question, she has taken tetanus shot coupe of months ago.
Yes, we do take tea with milk and sugar and you are right about it , it helps her a lot . Sometimes when she does not eat anything tea keeps her going ...

Yes our next visit to doc is this week , so lets see what happens.

Today we received Ferritin test results for my wife :
( I remember Rose had pointed that out in one of her replies and she was 100% right on that ) .
Her Iron levels in the body are very low , I don't know much about how to interpret lab results ,but here it goes :
Iron, Serum - 31 ( Low)
Iron Saturation - 7 ( Alert!)
Ferritin, Serum - 5 (Low)

I am sure doc is going to give prescription Iron medicines .
But anyone in this forum has insight into these results? Any advise...or experiences????

Thanks, you lifted my spirits.

So down so long due to all the things that have been going on for years.

I'm glad you found out about the iron. Kudos to Rose.

One thing I just want to mention, is that I was iron deficient all my life... since I was a kid... I had blue skin under my fingernails... I used to get so dizzy when I stood up...

but then after B12 replacement therapy... after a lot of B12, I've not ever had that problem again...

so I have to wonder if that's because the size of my blood cells has improved and more iron is getting carried around as a result...

I can't think of any other reason that I'd have always always been iron deficient, and now not...

Yes, low!!!

So glad the low iron was discovered. Apparently it would have been with the usual tests, even without the ferritin test, but in many people only the ferritin will show the problem.

I assume that besides building up her iron stores they will make sure she isn't bleeding somewhere (besides menstruation if that is an issue).

People who malabsorb B12 usually have insufficient stomach (gastric) acid. That often results in a lesser malabsorption of iron and calcium.

Best wishes to both of you,]

rose