Shooting pains after B12 injections

[nedinabed]

Hi,

I've just been told last week that I have a B12 deficiency, and have already had 2 injections this week. I noticed last night after having my second injections that I have mild shooting pains around my body, it's probably nerve pain? I was wondering if this is a side effect that anyone else has experienced. I don't really notice the pain when I'm moving around, but is noticeable when sedentary. Perhaps it's the nerves 'waking up' after the injection, but as far as I know my deficiency hasn't caused any nerve damage and can't remember having nerve pain before the injections.

[pvanderaa]

Start a logbook of the timing of all your symptoms. Some symptoms are interconnected in that one follows another in a fairly regular order. That order is typically due to the way your body and especially your gut works.

Monitor your food because quite often a gluten or dairy ( casein protein, not lactose) intolerance shows up with a B12D.

New, but similar, symptoms may show up when you start B12 injections.

Stress and worry consume lots of B12 and if your gut doesn't recycle it or you have an absorption problem you become deficient in B12.

The logbook also helps with short term memory loss and sharing it with your GP may help him see the broad range of symptoms that can arise from the B12D.

Of course he may treat you like a hypochondriac at first but invite him to include a list of your symptoms, especially the nuerological ones into his record and watch his attitude change.

Good luck. You may need more frequent B12 injections before the nerve damages gets too severe and is not repairable.

The symptoms in the first 3-4 days after an injection are counterintuitive but follow a sequence or pattern after each jab. These are “good” symptoms although pain or hunger or nausea from nerve repair are some of them. Telling yourself the pain is good and gently working through it gets the brain to recalibrate faster to the stronger signals from the repair.