Symptoms when not injecting

[Ehysibi]

Hi for those who have ever suffered any psychological or neuropsychiatric symptoms, do u feel they come back if u stop injecting for some time? If so, how soon do they come back and with what strength? Thanks

[B12life]

I think this is going to depend on each individual and their current situation, how low they were, how long they were low, how long they have been injecting, etc. But for me, it was immediate in my early stage of SI daily or EOD. If I didn't inject daily or every other day, I could tell.

Now I'm to the point where I can space them out to every other day or every 3rd day w/o *immediate* repercussions; however, if I space them every 3rd day for an extended time, I start feeling the effects. If I don't inject for 4+ days, I start getting tight muscles in my pecs and shoulders combined with definite brain fog. So even though I can space them out for a time, it comes back to bite eventually. Thus I stick to EOD. I've been injecting EOD for 6-7 months.

[Ehysibi in reply to B12life]

Thanks. Any psychological symptoms worsening?

[B12life in reply to Ehysibi]

I had depression which I have never had but i am taking meds for that and am doing well. As far as cognitive impairment, it improves as long as I keep up the eod si.

[mcg-woo]

I self inject weekly to keep neuropsychological symptoms at bay. I was cut back once every other week and symptoms resurfaced. My earliest symptoms are sensations in my feet and paranoia/fear of things I was never fearful of before—I begin to avoid those situations and I developed a full blown phobia that resolved once I went back to weekly injections. Hope this helps you. Neuropsychiatric symptoms without frequent enough injections are very real but I find most people except those on this forum—find them difficult to understand.

[Ehysibi in reply to mcg-woo]

Yes indeed. And people may blame u for it too!

[Narwhal10]

Hi Ehysibi,

Sorry, I thought I’d replied. It is a good question. So, if I don’t SI EOD I note physical but also my mood drops. I may cry at cute puppies on tv. If I’ve managed to go 4 or 5 days without SI -my mood is I can’t be bothered.

One of my greatest passions is sport but it will be a long time before I can do the stuff I used to. I know if I’m not interested in my daily power walk, once a week swim, there is something a miss. Can’t be bothered to put on a bit of makeup.

Take care