Hello
I am new to this forum but a long time member of Thyroid UK who basically saved my life 13 years ago. I am 70, have mild COPD, and until recently have been relatively healthy. I took a dive in Oct/Nov last year and have had chronic fatigue really since the end of last Summer. I thought - "Ah Ha! I will figure this out for myself as the Medical profession is unlikely to do so as they didn't do anything about my hypothyriodism before except to tell me I was depressed"So I looked for my copy of "Could it be B12"? but didn't have the energy to find it - (I have hundreds of books)-so decided to read it on Kindle for £7.49. I read it (2nd edition) again from front to cover and sort of feel that I may have a B12 deficiency as I have several of the symptoms. So I did a test via the Holland and Barrat testing service for B12 and the results came back as 466 in a range of 138 - 652. I have been taking a sublingual dose of 3000mcg for a few days and do feel a bit better - more energy, more able to concentrate, less painful legs.
I had an xray in September on my hips, expecting to find that arthritis was the culprit, but it showed up as only being mild, which really shocked me as I can only walk about 50 feet without sitting down - never used to have problems walking 2 years ago.
Could I ask you good people for your thoughts and advice please?
Sheena