Food, has anyone found their diet makes a difference

[Debs_47]

hi, was just wondering how people have adjusted their food intake due to being b12 and what they have found helps or makes things worse

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Improvement was made to my energy levels, by lowering pre prepared food. Eating food I prepared. I believe food additives?

[Nainey]

Hi Debs 47. I have changed to gluten free and there has been a vast improvement with my digestive system. I was diagnosed with PA about a year ago but I have now been referred to a neurologist due to other ongoing symptoms. Still trying to get the supplementation side of things to work for me but I am dogged with migraine headaches daily. I think it's as other posters have stated - everyone has individual responses to treatments, food supplements etc. Good luck.😀

[Debs_47 in reply to Nainey]

I get migraines and my neuro told me to take nagnesium and that has helped mine. might be worth a try x

[Gambit62 Administrator in reply to Debs_47]

Just a word of caution on magnesium - large numbers of people experience problems with diarrhoea when supplementing magnesium.

[fbirder in reply to Gambit62]

Yup, I thought my GI symptoms had returned. Then I read about the side-effects of the magnesium I'd started taking. Stopped the Mg and the problems went away after 36 hours.

[2Old in reply to Nainey]

Take B2! About 500mg a day should help, but there are other migraine sufferers online that take 1,000mg a day. I had a headaches EVERY DAY until I started taking B2.

Also take 2,000 to 4,000 units a day of D3.

I take Philip's brand of Magnesium tablet -- like the liquid Milk of Magnesia, only in tablet form. I take 2 caplets for 1,000 mg a day, and that seems to be the right amount for me. You can tell by your stools, too hard, take more, toooo...runny, take less.

A banana a day is also a good idea, except some people get headaches from them, so see how you feel after you eat them every day for a week or two.

Personally, I have a terrible diet, mainly because I don't feel well enough to prepare better foods, but a good, meat, potato, salad, fresh veg at meals with fruit, Jello, custards, homemade cookies with less sugar than the recipe calls for, etc., for dessert is generally the way to go for food that will help your body, yet not feel as though you need to binge on junk food.

[MariLiz]

I agree with Vala, tried to avoid additives in food. Eat freshly prepared where possible. I'm better when I include more fruit and vegetables and salads. Alcohol definitely makes things worse, not that I drink a lot, but a couple of glasses of wine one evening, I suffer for it the next two days. MariLiz

[fbirder]

Not since I started using Betaine HCl with larger meals.

[freelancer]

I went gluten free almost by accident, a year or so after diagnosis, and a lot of tiredness lifted pretty much overnight. Five or so years on I'm usually not aware that I'm approaching my jab date, and I can exercise again, which I found very difficult for some years. Over that period I also lost 2.5 stone without trying to, which felt like my body resetting itself.

The downside is that I'm now massively sensitive to gluten (and also now fairly lactose intolerant) and can't eat most processed food without a reaction lasting several days. I suspect I'm coeliac but I didn't get tested before going gluten free, so if you suspect this is an issue, make sure you get tested before giving anything up for good!

I never found alcohol made any difference to the way I felt but have just been advised by my doctor to stop it as my last blood test showed enlarged red blood cells, so it's another thing that can help.

[fbirder]

Even if you test negative for coeliacs you may still benefit by avoiding wheat. Many people think they suffer from gluten sensitivity when they're atually responding to some of the carbohydrates in wheat called FODMAPS,,,

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