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Hi

I've been taking B12 for a while. I read here that it is important to balance B vitamins if you are taking B12. So, I bought, Thorne's Basic B. After one tab, I felt really weird. I am sure this is not a problem with the product, because I remember supplementing one of the B vits some while ago (can't remember which - may have been B6...) anyway, I had exactly the same reaction; thought I was on my way out. These, of course, have been high levels of B. Anyone else experienced this?

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I was taking Designs for Health B Supreme and every day it made me feel nauseated and spacey. I would want to go back to bed afterward I felt so drained.

On the recommendation of that practitioner I was taking so many supplements I eventually got on top of it by setting a timer for 10mins and would take two capsules, then wait 10mins then take two more caps until they were gone. If I tried to take them at once I just felt awful.

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Thanks for that, punctured - sounds like I'm not alone.

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I can't vouch for these links (I haven't followed up the sources, though helpfully they are linked) but they discuss some of the SEs you don't usually hear about and I thought they were interesting:

jdmoyer.com/2011/09/03/b-vi...

drweil.com/vitamins-supplem...

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They work well, puncture, many thanks. But, by gum it's all very complicated - interesting, but complicated...

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