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This is my current system of keeping track of injections. When I first started and was experiencing severe symptoms including brain fog I took a piece of paper and wrote dates on a single page. I would then inject and take the syringe and roll it in the paper that way I would know if I had injected. I would throw it away at the next injection. I was only injecting 1.5 mg a day at this time.

The number in the square is the day number of my latest trial. The first day I write the actual regiment of the trial beside the number. The number in the triangle is the hours since the last injection if it is 5 or more. If there is a letter in a triangle than that is a observation or a thought I want to work on later beside a cryptic note that allows me to remember. The circle is the number of injections in a day which is a holdover from other trials.

The check mark indicates the injection did happen and the next is just to let me know when the next one is due or I am going to do it due to schedule or when I am going to sleep. (I try to minimize the time between the injection at night and other injections which I have determined is best based on results and evaluation of my data.

The A-4 is the number of days left until the vial is going to be empty. My vials are covered in tin foil and I am now using a 31 gauge needle and it draws very slowly so I like to know when it is time to peel back the tin foil to check how much is left.

From this information and more importantly my notes I can determine things like how many hours can I go without feeling an effect. It is currently 7 hours and I will feel the effect in about 12 hours. So that means with my current level of stressing my neurological system I use up my B12 in less than 7 hours. This is helpful as I design my next trial. I am using the term stress to be positive as it is healing I am guessing.

Analyzing this data gave me the idea that my concept of each positive trial has a slight uptick followed by a period that I feel worse and then things level off may be flawed and the period of feeling worse may not be necessary. It may be I unwittingly stress my neurological system as I am feeling better. Or it may be the leveling off is simply my body adjusting to not enough B12 or not frequently enough. It could be I am over supplementing as the only reason that I have to believe I am not is if I reduce I feel worse and when I increase I do better weekly.

I eliminated symptoms associated with B12 deficiency when injecting 3 of hydroxocobalamin three times a day and 6 mg sublingual Adeno three times a day. That took six months after years of suffering and it is likely that time would have been shorter had I injected with greater frequency and or amount. No way I could know that at the time due to lack of information from my trials and incorrect information about how to successfully treat B12 and why.

Current trial 1mg of adenosylcobalamin, 1mg of hydroxocobalamin, 1 mg of methylcobalamin 5 times a day including setting an alarm to inject in the night. 50 mg P-5-P B6 twice a day or I suffer debilitating pain from peripheral neuropathy due to B6 deficiency. B6 deficiency I rarely diagnosed as it is diagnosed clinically. It also is rare without another deficiency. Few GP even are aware it is possible to be B6 deficient.

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Thank you for sharing. Interesting that you have found 7 hours - I had no idea it could be so fast, but heard Dr Andrew Klein recently saying it could be used in 6 hours. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podca...

No wonder people need more frequent injections.

I also read something on the B12oils site yesterday about mast cell and histamine reactions being exacerbated by B12 deficiency which got me hopeful. He also speaks of B6 not being activated in functional B2 deficiency - and the need for iodine, selenium and molybdenum to prevent functional B12 deficiency eg b12oils.com/b2.htm and b12oils.com/paradoxical.htm

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A factor is that I use multi-use files. For me if I want to check the frequency, I can take whatever amount. I am injecting and split it into four doses in one day and track those results.

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WIZARD6787 in reply to bookish

At 7 hours I can definitively tell and have tracked it over time. I suspect that it has an adverse effect at anything less than 4 hours based on the difference in improvement between every 5 hours and every 4 hours.

I am going to come up to a conundrum soon. Soon the next rational step in my discovery and exploration will be to increase frequency and monitor. I am scared it will be effective and then I would want to continue at the increased frequency which would be restrictive having to have injections available more often.

There is no reason to believe that if I injected more often I would heal and be able to reduce just because others have chosen to do so.

I am working on seeing if the different forms can be compounded which would be a help in reducing the number of injections.

Also keeping my ear to the ground regarding pumps for insulin. I need to know the safety features regarding malfunction and viscosity concerns with B12. Then I would likely have to fly to a different country to procure one.

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