Hi RyanK

As far as Vitamin B12 is concerned, mrsD knows a lot about this - she will be able to advise you.

More generally, and this is just my opinion, provided that somebody eats in a healthy way (along the lines that mrsD has suggested) and does not have any medical problems (a full clinical investigation from your GP can help here, possibly with help from a professional dietitian) their nutritional needs (including vitamins) can usually be met from their food so there is no need to eat supplements.

There are nerves in the tendons, which serve the brain to tell it where you are moving, and how fast, etc.

There are 4 types of sensory nerves in the periphery:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cv.html

This is why sprains hurt so much and take so long to heal.
If you pull your tendons too hard, pain will result to warn you.

PN can come from a viral infection. And some food poisonings can cause it. A certain type from infected fish:
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilde...article_em.htm

Also from poorly cooked chicken= camplyobacter bacteria cause nerve damage.

Histamine excess from histamine foods, or histamine releasing foods:
http://www.histamineintolerance.org....the-food-list/

The histamine symptoms are paresthesias, and difficult to distinguish from real nerve damage (neuropathy).

MSG is also a huge trigger... just eliminating it can give quite a bit of relief. MSG is in almost all processed and restaurant prepared food.

And so you may have more than one event clustering on you at this time to give a rapid response. Sweats like you describe often happen when a person has inflammation or an infection of some type and takes an NSAID like ibuprofen or Aleve. Sweats also come when your blood sugar falls to low levels.

If you decide to use B12, take it on an empty stomach. It stays in your saliva which you swallow and is absorbed in the terminal ilium (intestine)...very little if any is
absorbed in the mouth. If you get tested, you have to stop the B12 several days before the test, because the test will show a false elevation and be rather useless.

Ryan, I've been at this a long time and I eat very well BUT still feel my supplements fill in where all the foods don't do it... I've followed the Weston Price Foundation healthy traditions way of eating for years. They know so much about oils and from that group I learned so much about coconut oil which I use daily for cooking and making my own toothpaste to eating it off the spoon. I buy real unsalted butter too.

I never bought into the designer foods in today's food industry. non fat, low fat etc etc..

With advancing age, I work to keep sugars/carbs and sodium to an acceptable level. Our body needs salts but there is a difference from sodium and salt. I use sea salts.

Processed foods are so OVER sugared and sodiumized. I read labels and go for low sodium when I buy processed...also shop at our coop market and whole foods...

http://www.westonaprice.org/

Good wishes and you are getting a lot of healthy education from the members here.

I use swanson vitamins a lot cheaper and you can look up swanson coupons and see if they offer any and it will be even cheaper... Purtain pride is spendy....

I used swansons for years and then got disenchanted with them. Calif has a regulation SB something and swansons just stopped shipping some items I use to CA. Other suppliers do not, you normally just agree to terms of the SB....issue and they all ship to CA.

pureformulas ships everything free. iherb ships free with $20 purchase. Luckyvitamins and vitacost (charge sales tax to CA) one has to buy $49 worth of products for free shipping. Amazon normally $35 purchase for free shipping unless one has prime which I don't. i like webvitamins for a couple of my supps and they are $49 for free shipping, but with them they take forever to get to CA. i've used puritan but don't care for their pp quality and otherwise their stuff is more pricey.

I've started on 5mg of MethyCobalamin, fast melt tabs a day under the tongue, and I'm using that right now twice a day now. I am then also taking Mega Benfotiamin 250mg, 2pills, twice a day. I'm also taking vitamine B50 complex, VitC, VitD, VitE, a 10 billion probiotic, and a triple omega 3, 6, 9.

Ryan, Many of us take adequate magnesium. I take it thru the day.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread1138.html

You are taking some good supplements as I see it. I take Omega 3 only, not 6,9.

I worked long and hard on a sleep remedy and I have it posted here maybe in this section...it's title is "that elusive sleep". I know it's in the sleep area where I posted it a while ago.

As I understand it, we can't overdose on B12, my level is about 2000 and I still take 1000mcg daily....what we don't use comes out in urine. That's what I've read.

On the thyroid, which is a major complex issue for many, me for sure. Doctors need to test T3 and T4 too.

Go slowly and take time to meditate, it helps so much. I've resolved to do 15-30 min every day after breakfast. I'm headed to do it now.