Vitamin b12

[Grma2]

My count was 262 I told to take 1000mcg daily is that low my platelets are 147

[Heloise]

stopthethyroidmadness.com/l...

You have to scroll down toward the bottom of the article.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Is that serum B12 or Active B12? What is the range?

[Angel_of_the_North]

With that result (needs to be over 500 to avoid neurological damage), I'd take 5000iu a day sublingual methylcobalamin (the type is important) until my B12 was at the top of the range, then fall back to 1000 or 2000. You can't really overdose on a water soluble vitamin as you just pee it out.

[Grma2]

Thank you for your reply. I didn't know vitamin b12 was that important. I take 1000mcg the Dr said I might have to take shots .I take enough shots with my diabetes.

[Gambit62 in reply to Grma2]

Grma2 there is a lot of information on B12 deficiency on the PAS forum.

healthunlocked.com/pasoc

You mention diabetes - are you on metformin? - this is known to interfere with the absorption of B12 from food.

Unfortunately there is a huge amount of overlap between symptoms of thyroid, B12 deficiency and diabetes so unravelling symptoms is really difficult. Where the conditions co-exist then it isn't uncommon for treatment to focus on just the first condition to arise and the other conditions go totally unnoticed so it sounds to me as if your GP really does know their stuff.

High dose oral B12 can be very effective for some people but it doesn't work for everyone. If the cause is metformin it should be sufficient, but if you also have PA or have low stomach acidity then you probably will need injections. These would normally be done as a series of loading doses followed by regular maintenance doses - frequency varies but in UK is generally every 3 months - so the normal regime isn't quite the exercise in being a pin-cushion that insulin dependent diabetes is ...