Post injection fatigue

[SigNi]

Anyone else feel wiped out shortly after b12 injections? I’ve been injecting for a few months now - trying to find the right interval. Anyone know what might cause this?

[Nackapan]

I get it .

Go very dopey too . Loose hours

For me this is preferable to the headaches and migraines and total shake up of my nervous system I used to get .

You are in early days. Try and go with thr flow as your body is reacting its healing.

[SigNi in reply to Nackapan]

Thank you - I’ll keep at it & try to plan around it. Set aside things to do for when I’m most wimpy.

[Nackapan in reply to SigNi]

A good plan

[deniseinmilden]

Just checking - are you getting plenty of other vitamins and minerals, especially folate, potassium, magnesium, iron and vitamin D? These are used up at the greatest rate alongside B12 but all the vitamins, particularly B vitamins and D, and many minerals, are vital for the processes that use B12.

B12 is used in nerve function, cell repair and energy release alongside all sorts of other vitamins and minerals. If any one thing is short then the whole process is limited by that one thing and either your nerves don't work as well as they could, you don't heal as quickly as you should or you don't get the energy release that you want - you feel fatigued.

Bring tired is nature's way of your body giving itself a chance - healing is more important than running around so it controls your energy output to enable it to partition the nutrients to repairing damage.

I'm convinced that's why we feel slowed up when we're not well and why fit, healthy people have more energy and fight off problems more readily.

A B12 injection gives us the vital "ingredient" required to heal the damage caused by the deficiency and so the body's automatic programming makes us want to rest to give us chance for healing sleep (when it's not being busy thinking and moving, etc).

As time goes on and more of the damage you sustained from the deficiency is healed, this effect should lessen, provided you have enough of the all the other nutrients to keep going!

For those of us who inject every day we keep the levels constantly high enough that we don't notice the effects so much but if your jabs are further apart it can be a bit of roller coaster.

[doityourself in reply to deniseinmilden]

Hi.Thankyou for your reply to SigNi query. It clarified several things for me. Im on 4 weekly injections and usually suffer considerable tiredness a day or so after a jab. Im wondering if they need to be more frequent and also take a multi B vitamin but wondered if absorbtion would be impeded as is b12 when taken orally for those of us with PA?

[deniseinmilden in reply to doityourself]

I think a broad spectrum multivitamin and mineral is a better option than just a B complex as it has all the B vitamins plus other vital vitamins and minerals as well.

Supplements like this are usually best taken with a meal to improve the chances of absorbtion.

Poor absorbtion of B12 with PA is due specifically to a lack of the "intrinsic factor" that is needed to deal with such a large molecule and doesn't apply to other nutrients.

That said, some people have other things going on alongside the PA which reduce the digestion of foods and the absorbtion of nutrients in general.

[SigNi in reply to deniseinmilden]

Thank you for all of this. I do struggle to understand all the additional nutrients affected. I‘m upping my veg & other supplements & steadily improving on cutting out less helpful foods. I‘ll try looking at the fatigue a bit more benignly.

[Lmbw]

It could be low folate or iron (a jab uses folate and iron in your body to create healthy blood cells), it could also be low potassium,. Your body is so grateful to be able to make some blood cells it goes on a mission and does its job, but it uses other minerals too!

I read up about co factors when injecting. You should never supplement potassium, but should eat plenty of potassium rich food after injecting (bananas are good),and also take a good multivitamin and a b vitamin supplement regularly, this should help with the tiredness. The b vitamins all work together, if you are supplementing oral folate when jabbing, take the day before.

[deniseinmilden in reply to Lmbw]

Very good!

Just a small caveat on "never" supplement with potassium - some of us have to every day and would be dead if we didn't but I'm sure you meant not to unless the need is proven by blood testing and ongoing monitoring.

In all cases it is better to obtain nutrients from our diet if we possibly can - not least because there are many complex interactions between the various compounds in foods that just can't be covered by supplements.

[SigNi in reply to deniseinmilden]

😊 Thank you

[SigNi in reply to Lmbw]

Thank you. This is all great stuff. I still struggle with cofactors.

[SigNi]

Thank you - this is all great. I‘m still struggling to understand all the cofactor issues.

[AnneCh1]

Yes, I have often felt like that after my 3 month injection. Its weird you would think it was the opposite.