B12 results back

[Meblue]

I did a online blood test and got back the result of 560. Not deficient at all. The last few weeks I have been eating more B12 foods - could that skew my result? I haven’t done the supplements, so I didn’t think just food would affect the results. Should I do the more intensive MMA test? I guess I want to think this is my problem, but maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree now.

[Gambit62 Administrator]

If you had an absorption problem what you eat wouldn't make much difference (unless it was large amounts of nigh-on raw liver that had been treated to ensure it had intrinsic factor with it).

If you had a dietary deficiency and then started to correct that then it would bring your levels up. However, as the body has a limited capacity to absorb B12 from a single meal it would probably be relatively slow way of restoring levels ... unless you are eating to absorption capacity several times a day.

[Meblue in reply to Gambit62]

I wouldn’t think eating more b12 over say a weeks time would bring it up to a level that high, don’t you think? I mean severely deficient is under 180, right?

[Gambit62 Administrator in reply to Meblue]

agreed - which would imply you don't have low levels of B12.

[Meblue in reply to Gambit62]

Back to the drawing board I guess. I’ve thought about Fibromyalgia and now I’m leaning towards that again

[Meblue in reply to Gambit62]

It just really seems with my symptoms and how they have gotten worse that this is what I have.