Pernicious Anaemia, PVC's and Atria Fibrillation

[th3joker]

I've been suffering with low B12, PVC's and AF for a number of years.

I decided to switch to self injection around 3 years ago, due to the local GP's not offering anything more than 4 a year after loading.

Had a number of symptoms, some still remain.

I also switched to more regular self injections, Subcutaneously over IM due to both pain and nausea post injection. I now do 3-4 injections of around 0.25ml a month over 1ml monthly IM. For me this seemed to give less side effects.

More recently I've discovered, after severe gallbladder problems and an endoscopy that I have a dairy allergy and struggle to digest meat. Bizarrely after discontinuing both meat and particularly dairy my stomach issues have completely disappeared. Even more bizarrely after discontinuing all forms of dairy all heart arrythmia (PVC's and AF) have also completely discontinued.

For anyone suffering similar effects it may be worth experimenting with dramatic diet changes. Sadly for me, this meant giving up Coffee (caffeine), Chocolate, butter, cream, milk and all other dairy. Meat, particularly red meat seems to exasperate stomach issues, I can tolerate some fish, small amounts of Chicken but very little red meat. All of which add to the lack of B12 but the injections seem to mitigate this.

It's extremely refreshing not to feel at deaths door several times a day, hope this may help others.

[YogiGreg]

Yes, my PVC increased profoundly due to VitB12 deficiency, even trotted myself off to Emergency at one point fearing something worse was about to happen. It has subsided after deficiency treatment thank goodness...but definitely know that a strong coffee will set my arrhythmia off. Also know that with B12 deficiency I was getting anxiety as one of the symptoms and that too was setting off my PVC and the main reason why I still get PVC now is due to my anxiety levels rising. Hopefully this symptom (the anxiety) will continue to subside as the healing journey continues. I'm a fairly strict vegetarian (reason for my B12 deficiency) so don't have a lot of dairy (mainly a small tub of yoghurt as a snack), but noting your experience will try cutting it out completely and see if that helps as well, can't hurt to try.

Thanks for posting on your experiences

[Gambit62 Administrator]

if you are injecting then I wouldn't worry about the amount of B12 in your diet - if you have an absorption problem then you won't be able to use it anyway.