advice please?.

[blondie2505]

I'm doing alternate day injections and starting to get pins and needles in my feet..could this be low potassium as I read the files and it wasn't listed as a symptom. just curious if this is normal or what may be the cause of it? I have been doing the injections for about a month/five weeks maybe.

[Gambit62 Administrator]

unlikely to be potassium - lowering of potassium is an issue in early stages of B12 if you have anaemia -

More likely to be that your nerves are healing and the pins and needles is part of the brain getting used to signals coming through again. Month/5 weeks is early days.

Are you supplementing B6 at all - it can cause neurological problems taken in high doses over a long period of time. They usually reverse when supplementation stops but there have been a few reported cases when the effects have been permanent.

[blondie2505 in reply to Gambit62]

Iv just realised iv been taking my b complex for exactly two months which means iv been injecting for two months the b6 level works out at 357% as the dosage is two a day and that would have been 714%. Its the holland and barrett ones. Based on this iv just cut them in half quartering the amount down to 178% NRV. Then i will stop taking them for two months after iv taken them for three months. then back on them for another four months.

[blondie2505 in reply to blondie2505]

Forgot to say the dosage is two tablets a day but i only take one tablet because of the strength im now cutting it down to half of one tablet so its a quarter of the dosage stated on the tub.

[Foggyme Administrator in reply to blondie2505]

Hi Blondie...just a thought...why not take individual B vitamin tablets...then you can tailor individual B vitamin doses to your specific requirements (even the 100% RDA can cause problems for some people).

RDA aside the maximum dose for B6 is 100mcg daily - but this is too much for some and potentially enough to cause the symptoms you describe, in some people.

If I have this right, it looks like your additional symptoms started just after you commenced the Bcomplex with the B6 (pyridoxine)? Suggest you cut B6 completely for two months and see if this has a good effect (not everybody needs to supplement with all the B vitamins, especially B6, and it's very much an individual thing).

Hope you manage to work of a solution 👍