Interesting read

[Justified]

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[Foggyme Administrator]

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[Foggyme Administrator in reply to helvella]

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[Justified]

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[pugdogs10]

Interesting article Peggylally66, I have had these ridges for over 40 years and more recently no half moons. I was diagnosed with PA 11 yrs ago and have increased the frequency of injections to weekly over the years. In spite of this my fingernails have not improved. Could this be one of the residual symptoms which will never go away....we are learning more and more but there is still so much that we do not understand.

I wonder how many other people have similar experience and how long we may have had this illness before we had symptoms or were diagnosed?

[Marymary7]

Really good article and lots of good links too, thank you. I have those exact nails! I'm not diagnosed b12 deficient but doc said my red blood cells were enlarged but seemed puzzled as the b12 was fine? So I think I have PA or some similar problem as well as underactive thyroid.

I have just got Superior Source B12 1000 mcg plus B6 & Folic Acid sublingual tablets and wonder what they will do for me.

M😀

[pugdogs10 in reply to Marymary7]

Do you know what your B12 serum level was when your doctor said it was " fine" Marymary7, sometimes doctors say it is fine when it is not.

[Marymary7 in reply to pugdogs10]

pugdogs10 No I don't know what it was then but I understand it a lot better now. That was a few years ago, I only have one from 2013

It was 439, range 180- 1000, Ferritin 44, range 10-300. Folate 13.1 >4. MCV 92.1 80-100

Cheers,

M😀

[Justified]

I have no half moons, brittle nails with ridges & left thumb nail keeps splitting right down the nail. I was diagnosed with b12 deficiency last summer which they treated with 5x loading doses,no follow up. I had to plead with my doctor to keep up treatment which she has agreed to for neurologiical problems. I had to self diagnose thrombocytopenia even though I had shown photos of all my bruising on my legs along with history of nose bleeds, staggering, exhaustion, freezing cold hands & feet, and doc didn't try to find out what this was. On reading into it more I discovered this is common with h pylori infection so I had to ask to be tested. Turns out I was positive for hpylori. I have had triple therapy but think the damage has been done for so long that I'll never recover fully. I now SI along with monthly injections. I asked to be tested for intrinsic factor & parietal cell antibodies. Stopped injections for two weeks as required,which made me really low. Just got word that the samples had hemolysed so I'll need to go through it all again but I'm too depleted at the moment !!!

[pugdogs10]

Given that you are on monthly injections and also SI, I doubt if there is any point in having the tests anyway, IF test is very inconclusive and positive parietal cell test on its own proves nothing.... so when you are getting monthly injections what would be the point in putting yourself through it?

[Justified in reply to pugdogs10]

I have thought that myself pugdogs10 . I wanted to find out if h pylori has damaged my parietal cells permanently or if I can look forward to feeling better without all the injections eventually.thing is...I have presented with these various symptoms which have all been ignored for many years and been told it's depression or simply just been given painkillers & at one point blood pressure tablets for my extremely painful cold hands & feet even though blood pressure was normal. I suppose I should just leave things be for now & not keep searching for answers now that I know the reason for my deficiency.. Thanks for helping me make up my mind

[pugdogs10 in reply to Justified]

Just a thought...have you ever had thyroid tests?

[Justified in reply to pugdogs10]

Yes... That's when they discovered b12,vit d and folate deficiency.

[Marz in reply to Justified]

Do you know what was tested for the thyroid - and do you have the results ? Often Docs just test the TSH - when the FT4 FT3 and Thyroid Anti-bodies Anti-TPO and Anti-Tg should also be tested

[Justified in reply to Marz]

Marz . I don't know but I will find out & get back thanks