Severe Itching of Hands and Feet After Injecting

[Awakeshattered]

Hi All

After being diagnosed with PA a year ago and completing loading doses, I began IM injecting when GP would only move from 12 weekly to 10 weekly. This worked well until I suffered severe itching starting at the palms and moving to whole hands and feet, this is mainly at night. I stopped injecting for two weeks, felt ill, began injecting and terrible itching returned. I have done this three times to make sure it is the B12 causing the itching and it seems to be true.

I have used the same pharmacy and the same vials from MyCare.de and have searched the internet but can't find an explanation. I am feeling the need for my injection but the itching doesn't allow sleep.

I understand that if this was a case of too much B12, it wouldn't really cause any significant harm, am I correct in this?

Your expansive knowledge would, as always, be invaluable.

[pvanderaa]

Nerve repair if probably the cause of the itching. Goes away faster if you think of it as evidence that you are healing. Anxiety just seems to make it worse and prolongs it. 3 days for the brain to recalibrate to the stronger signals on the nerves. Keep a severity score in a logbook and see if it is less on future injections.

It may actually mean that you need more frequent injections so that you don’t return into a deficient state for B12.

[Survivorette in reply to pvanderaa]

They tell me IM may not be necessary

[pvanderaa]

If you really have PA, then injections will be for the rest of your life. Oral Supplements do not get absorbed in the same way that the B12 recycling mechanism in the gut doesn’t work.

You need to treat by your symptoms as any further blood test should show >1500 pg/ml. Which is what you want to repair the nerve damage. These high results confuse the GP because the guidelines have an upper limit. This upper limit is really only for initial diagnosis.

Since B12 is water soluble, you can’t overdose as you pee the excess away.

You need to be keeping track of all your symptoms in a logbook. Treat the jab as day zero each time and reset the counter, this allows you to compare day 2 to day 2 in a previous cycle to monitor progress over the long run. Repair of nerve damage is very very slow.