Hello knowledgeable B12 folks!
I have been dealing with what I believe is B12 deficiency for a couple of months now. I'm vegan and have been deficient a couple of times in the past. Doctors can't find anything wrong with me. I was taking B12 for a few days before my first test in November. Then I was off them until the first week in January.
My results went from 800 to 400 in 7 weeks. I presume this would be expected having stopped the supplements? I know from having done some reading that this reading still might not be accurate.
My doctor tested a whole bunch of things and everything came back normal. Including anti-intrinsic and anti-parietal antibody which he did just to be safe.
I am really breathless with a fast heart rate and a lot of burning nerve pain in my feet and just finding it hard to walk now. It's awful. I've been taking sublinguals for a few weeks now the testing is over and I don't feel any better for it.
I see my doctor tomorrow and I will discuss this with him again. Can anyone just give me encouragement? I feel like I'm facing an uphill battle trying to get him to consider what I'm saying. It still could be B12 right I'm not just going mad?
I am considering just buying some injectable B12 and seeing if one of those might actually give me some improvement! But the idea also seems really out there!
Thanks for any replies. Please be kind. I'm really feeling down and out.
Maria. x