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I've noticed some are:

Cyancobalamin and some are

Merhylcobalamin

I have 100 mcg 500mcg

And 50mg in a 45+ multivit.

I'm due an injection on Wednesday.

Not too much weakness but feel my head He been used as a punch bag. ? Vestibular disturbance . Tinnitis. Housebound again

Ill all weekend and bad nights.

Taken some oral b12 as I have it!!

Is one better than the other?

I'm know I'm probably wasting my time and clutching at straws. Feel I have ti try something

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There is little difference between them as they are both converted to cob(II)alamin once they enter the cell. From that point on, they are identical. b12science.com/B12Science/D...

Some people (including me) have a bad reaction to methylcobalamin.

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Nackapan in reply to fbirder

Okay thanks.

What us the bad reaction some have (including you) please to Merhylcobalamin

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I've tried injecting methylcobalamin once. Quite quickly I just started to feel 'wrong'. It's difficult to describe exactly why I felt wrong. I was agitated, irritable, twitchy. It felt a bit like nicotine withdrawal (but 100 times worse) and a bit like the time I took an antipsychotic (as a volunteer in a trial).

Both of those involve dopamine and I suspect that there may be some interaction between methylcobalamin, dopamine and the enzyme catechol O-methyl transferase (COMT).

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Nackapan in reply to fbirder

Okay Thank you. You described it well.

At the time I bought theses tablets I didnt even know there were different sorts.

I'll definitely stick to hydroxocobalamin injections.

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