Vitamin B12

[StevePT]

Has anyone had vitamin B12 injections or other B12 supplements for fatigue?If so did you have hydroxocobalamin ,methylcobalamin or cyanocobalamin and was there any benefit i.e. reduction in your fatigue?

[laserlight]

Google 'pernicious anaemia' and see if this might apply to you. Start with:

bbc.co.uk/health/physical_h...

followed by another link at the end of this article. Good luck!

[Julieanne]

Hello, Yes I have just started on B12 injections, 3 times a week for 2 weeks and then every three months. Just finished my 2 week course and I was given Hydroxocobalamin 1mg.

I was t old my the nurse that it would take at least 4-6 weeks before I would feel any difference, but to be honest, I think I feel the effect now. I feel much more energetic, although I have been given Iron tablets also 630 mg a day so maybe the combined treatment has been good for me. I was very lethargic before, always no energy and everything was too much hard word. I would recommend anyone to go and see their doctor and insist they give you something, I had been backward and forward to my GP's but I was no much better, but decided to go and see the lady doctor and she was great. Good luck to you all.

[wales]

im on B12 but find it hard to last the 3 months Prof Hughes says i can have it more often as i probably need it can i ask snot fab why she has i every 2 weeks id be really grateful as i get terrible pain and tingling in my feet which improve when ive had B12 injections

[wales]

thank you so much hope you didntmind me asking but its only been 7 weeks since my last one and my feet and hands are tingling which is how i normally feel,i too have had difficulty having my injection earlier even though Prof has written to them but luckily i am a practice nurse and 1 of the GPs i work with will do it so here goes !

[Hidden]

Hi, I do B 12 injections but not sure of what type, I will have to look when I get a chance. I do them about once a month. Not sure if they are helping.

[MaryF Administrator]

Also one more thing to add to this.. vitamin B as in lack of.. often goes hand in hand with thyroid problems, which of course often get missed! Hughes syndrome seems to make people more likely to have these issues. Mary F x

[Coppernob]

I also do B12 injections myself at home. 0.5ml daily of methylcobalamin. Possibly more than I need, but it only gets peed out if not used. Can't imagine how people cope who are expected to wait 3 months between jabs - ridiculous.

As I understand it, methylcobalamin is the best form of B12 to take because it's the one that doesn't need conversion before being used by the brain and body.

I find B12 helps with both energy and neurological symptoms, and I soon notice if I haven't had enough - certainly within a couple of days or so.

I should point out, however, that I get the B12 'under the counter' as it were - my regimen would never be sanctioned by the orthodox medics.

[StevePT in reply to Coppernob]

Interesting as this concurs with Doctor Sarah Myhill who specialises in environmental medicine and fatigue and who is not mainstream.I did read somewhere that methylcobalamin can methylate the mercury in mercury amalgam fillings and lead to methyl mercury which is not something you want in your body but I imagine many people with mercury amalgam fillings are having methylcobalamin presumably without adverse effects.

[Coppernob]

Yes, v interesting StevePT. I can get my B12 either from another environmental medicine practitioner, or a retired anaesthetist who specialises in ayurvedic medicine.

Hadn't come across the mercury metylation problem - but since I've had all my mercury amalgam fillings replaced, that isn't an issue for me.

Incidentally, I felt worse on hydroxycobalamin - but I think that's pretty random!!!

[Jillymo]

If you have a doctor that wont help with your fatigue or prescribe B12 injections you can purchase B12 patches !

I got mine off Ebay.