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Do your feet feel tingly and numb.

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My feet have felt numb and tingly for a couple of years now not bad until the last 6 months. I just started taking 1000 mgs of B12 and 500mg of Vitamin C 7 days ago and now the numbness and pins and needles feeling has almost completely gone.

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racerCP

Thank you, Bailey. Will follow the advice you have given me. Will post when I see an improvement.

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ramondo4

Hi Baily , that is how my Periphial Neuropathy started, my lower legs

are now semi numb which affects my walking and balance, I have not

tried B12 yet but I shall.

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BUZZ1397

Well thank you very much. I have experienced what you have for about a year. I will up my intake of b12. I already ingest aaound 3 grams vit C daily.

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bcowart

My experience is worse than tingly and numb. My peripheral neuropathy is very painful. Legs from the knee down feel like they are burning and being pulsed with electric shocks about 8 times per second. This wakes me up at night. I take my next dose of Sinemet and wait for an hour (even on an empty stomach) until I can go back to sleep without the pain. The feelings go away when the Sinemet kicks in. I can still walk pretty well, even when my lower legs and feet have the burning sensations. I have had sonograms of my legs, looking for DVTs (clots) and nothing was found. My veins and arteries seem fine. I have tracked my oxygen saturation during the night using a pulse oximeter because I have some apnea. But that is treated with an oral appliance (like a retainer after you’ve had braces removed). One doctor said my Lyme disease is causing autonomic neuropathy and I should be having Gamma Globulin infusions via intravenous drip. I have done about 10 of those, but the pain marches onward.

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Bailey_Texas in reply to bcowart

Have you tried using compression socks. I wear knee high ones with a pair of thick white socks and it helps a lot.

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bcowart

Yeah. Thanks. I'll try again. I was worried that they might make things worse due to restricting blood from getting to the surface skin. I had a small fiber density biopsy which showed that peripheral nerves are dying off. Lower density at the ankles than the hip area. Unknown cause.

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MGP201

daily?

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silvestrov

You can safely take more than 1 mg/day of B12. The most potent form of B12 is called methylcobalamin and considering gut issues absorption are common in the elderly use a sublingual form. I have used 5 mg/day sublingual for 5+ years. The following link discusses the safety of high dose B12:

stichtingb12tekort.nl/weten...

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