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Elevated b12 after stopping prenatal

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Hey I’m a 34 year old mum of 2. I recently had my b12 lab done and it was at 2000, but I was taking a pre natal vitamin...I had it redone 3 weeks later without taking my vitamin and my levels were at 1768. I had a ct scan of brain,mri,chest X-ray,thyroid/neck scan and all those came back normal.

Just because your b12 is high, does it mean you have an underlying disease? I haven’t spoken to my doctor in a week so I’m not sure if we’ll just recheck in a month, do more labs, or if she’ll send me to a hemotologist.

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The human body is very, very good at storing B12. If your prenatal vitamins had a lot (a few times the RDA) of B12 in it, and you were eating sensibly, then you could quite easily build your B12 levels up that high.

But it's nothing to worry about at all. The levels will slowly drop over the next year or three. And high levels of B12 aren't dangerous at all.

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So normal high b12 levels are nothing to worry about?

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