Comments on: Confessions Of A Methylcobalamin Junkie http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html Freshly squeezed market commentary & analysis Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Tony B http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34605 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:24 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34605 I started my cyan 5 weeks ago and am so amazed at how I feel now. I was so far down I was doing 1cc every 3 days....I know that might sound harsh but I have Crohns disease and can not hardly absorb anything. That last shot from the bottle finally got me up and out of bed. FINALLY!!! Now I just do about .7cc every 5 days...or whenever my energy really falls off...1cc seems to really buzz my head so I've backed down on the dose.. I took this upon my self to try after reading on a body building forum and days of investigating this...trying to find some way to get energy and do it safely. I've been working out for 20 years just so I can keep my body going and staying alive.Exercise is about the best thing you can do for crohns and have a good diet but..... There's not much I can drink besides tea and water....I've spent so much on all the protein drinks and whatever else they come out with only to not be able to get help from them. I even eat 3 lbs of meat a week and still can't get any nutrition from that. I've always studied nutrition for the last 20 years and taken care of myself. But this has been a rough year, seriously felt myself going down hill a lil too far...and hadn't worked out for 6 months... So I did the B 12 shot and it sure has made a world of difference to me and now back in the gym. Just wished I would've started this 10 years ago.... Like you said Michael we need to tell the world but then the FDA would pull all this off the market along with the other good stuff our bodies need....just like they did to Ener-B Gel in the 90's....wow now that was some good B 12 up the nose....that was even 5 times stronger than the shots we take... Thinking about trying the super-complex after this next bottle.... it feels good to be normal again I tell ya that!!! I started my cyan 5 weeks ago and am so amazed at how I feel now. I was so far down I was doing 1cc every 3 days….I know that might sound harsh but I have Crohns disease and can not hardly absorb anything. That last shot from the bottle finally got me up and out of bed. FINALLY!!! Now I just do about .7cc every 5 days…or whenever my energy really falls off…1cc seems to really buzz my head so I’ve backed down on the dose..

I took this upon my self to try after reading on a body building forum and days of investigating this…trying to find some way to get energy and do it safely.

I’ve been working out for 20 years just so I can keep my body going and staying alive.Exercise is about the best thing you can do for crohns and have a good diet but….. There’s not much I can drink besides tea and water….I’ve spent so much on all the protein drinks and whatever else they come out with only to not be able to get help from them. I even eat 3 lbs of meat a week and still can’t get any nutrition from that.

I’ve always studied nutrition for the last 20 years and taken care of myself. But this has been a rough year, seriously felt myself going down hill a lil too far…and hadn’t worked out for 6 months…
So I did the B 12 shot and it sure has made a world of difference to me and now back in the gym. Just wished I would’ve started this 10 years ago….

Like you said Michael we need to tell the world but then the FDA would pull all this off the market along with the other good stuff our bodies need….just like they did to Ener-B Gel in the 90’s….wow now that was some good B 12 up the nose….that was even 5 times stronger than the shots we take…

Thinking about trying the super-complex after this next bottle….

it feels good to be normal again I tell ya that!!!

]]> by: bonnie http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34603 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:57:19 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34603 I care not for anonymous' language. Grow up. Proper language comes across better. Not language of a filthy sailer. Wether you're right or wrong. I care not for anonymous’ language. Grow up. Proper language comes across better. Not language of a filthy sailer. Wether you’re right or wrong.

]]> by: Michael http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34571 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:35:10 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34571 Hi Yelena, I'm glad you finally figured it out. I had a similar experience but was able to diagnose the problem within 6 months. Like you, I was told that my health problems were due to stress. I'm sure stress is a factor but reducing stress won't solve the problem. After many tests and ruling out a variety of conditions, I asked the doctor to check my B12. In fact my B12 had already been checked but they didn't interpret the data. My B12 at 211 was in the "normal" range but clearly it wasn't normal for me. I had many symptoms including enlarged red blood cells (which the doctor would have known if he had really looked at my lab work), tingling hands and feet, burning tongue, the list goes on and on. Thank God I'm being treated now even though all the symptoms have not comletely gone away. Hopefully over time I'll get back to normal. It took me many hours of research to isolate B12 deficiency as the culprit. Doctors don't have that kind of time to spend on each patient. I read somewhere that the average dr only listens to a patient for 16 seconds before starting a diagnosis. Doctors need to be made aware of the symptoms and debilitating effects of B12 deficiency. Hi Yelena, I’m glad you finally figured it out. I had a similar experience but was able to diagnose the problem within 6 months. Like you, I was told that my health problems were due to stress. I’m sure stress is a factor but reducing stress won’t solve the problem. After many tests and ruling out a variety of conditions, I asked the doctor to check my B12. In fact my B12 had already been checked but they didn’t interpret the data. My B12 at 211 was in the “normal” range but clearly it wasn’t normal for me. I had many symptoms including enlarged red blood cells (which the doctor would have known if he had really looked at my lab work), tingling hands and feet, burning tongue, the list goes on and on. Thank God I’m being treated now even though all the symptoms have not comletely gone away. Hopefully over time I’ll get back to normal. It took me many hours of research to isolate B12 deficiency as the culprit. Doctors don’t have that kind of time to spend on each patient. I read somewhere that the average dr only listens to a patient for 16 seconds before starting a diagnosis. Doctors need to be made aware of the symptoms and debilitating effects of B12 deficiency.

]]> by: Yelena http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34567 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:41:39 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34567 I had a problem for more than ten years - buzzing and tingling in my feet. Not like the "pins and needles" of a limb going to sleep, but a very pronounced buzzing like my feet were on an electric massager turned on high. I probably spent $20,000 or more looking for answers to this problem that was absolutely destroying my life. At times, it felt so bad, I felt almost suicidal. I was told it was scar tissue - it was not. I was told it was a trapped nerve - it was not. I was told I had nerve damage - I did not. I was told I had MS - I did not. I was told I had diabetes - I did not. Finally, the doctors put it all down to "stress" and told me to stop looking for a solution. Of course I didn't. Finally, someone thought to check my B12 levels. They were only in the mid-100s. Very low. And no wonder. I'm a vegetarian and I didn't take supplements. To make matters worse, I had been taking Prilosec for about seven years and B12 can't be absorbed from food when there's no acid in the stomach. I immediately started on sublingual methylcobalamin twice a day. The sublingual tablets work as well as injections and they're more convenient. Within a week, I was feeling significantly better and within a month, I felt "cured." However, I do know I'll have to take sublingual methylcobalamin for the rest of my life or again face the distressing symptoms I lived with for ten and one-half miserable years. I don't care. Letting a pill dissolve under my tongue twice a day is such a small thing to do for my health. I'm just lucky I don't have nerve damage because it can occur if the B12 deficiency is severe and goes on long enough. And you don't have to be very deficient to get symptoms. Supplements of cyanocobalamin are okay if you're not deficient, but if you are, then you need either injections or sublingual methylcobalamin. I never thought I'd find a way out of the nightmare I was living in, and if I did, I never thought it would be as easy as letting a tablet dissolve under my tongue twice each day. I can't emphasize the extreme important of methylcobalamin. In my opinion, everyone should be using it. I had a problem for more than ten years - buzzing and tingling in my feet. Not like the “pins and needles” of a limb going to sleep, but a very pronounced buzzing like my feet were on an electric massager turned on high. I probably spent $20,000 or more looking for answers to this problem that was absolutely destroying my life. At times, it felt so bad, I felt almost suicidal. I was told it was scar tissue - it was not. I was told it was a trapped nerve - it was not. I was told I had nerve damage - I did not. I was told I had MS - I did not. I was told I had diabetes - I did not. Finally, the doctors put it all down to “stress” and told me to stop looking for a solution. Of course I didn’t.

Finally, someone thought to check my B12 levels. They were only in the mid-100s. Very low. And no wonder. I’m a vegetarian and I didn’t take supplements. To make matters worse, I had been taking Prilosec for about seven years and B12 can’t be absorbed from food when there’s no acid in the stomach.

I immediately started on sublingual methylcobalamin twice a day. The sublingual tablets work as well as injections and they’re more convenient. Within a week, I was feeling significantly better and within a month, I felt “cured.” However, I do know I’ll have to take sublingual methylcobalamin for the rest of my life or again face the distressing symptoms I lived with for ten and one-half miserable years. I don’t care. Letting a pill dissolve under my tongue twice a day is such a small thing to do for my health. I’m just lucky I don’t have nerve damage because it can occur if the B12 deficiency is severe and goes on long enough. And you don’t have to be very deficient to get symptoms.

Supplements of cyanocobalamin are okay if you’re not deficient, but if you are, then you need either injections or sublingual methylcobalamin.

I never thought I’d find a way out of the nightmare I was living in, and if I did, I never thought it would be as easy as letting a tablet dissolve under my tongue twice each day. I can’t emphasize the extreme important of methylcobalamin. In my opinion, everyone should be using it.

]]> by: Xan http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34520 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:11:36 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34520 Michael, I can tell you from my own experience that sublingual methylcobalamin works much better for me than sublingual cynanocobalamin. My energy stays more level, and I can even take it to handle moments of stress better. I am also continuing with the injections, which I seem to need more often than the once-a-month that doctors routinely prescribe. Since I do them myself it's no problem. You have to remember, the reason some of us must take injections or sublinguals is because we can't assimilate B12 from food or oral supplements. Michael, I can tell you from my own experience that sublingual methylcobalamin works much better for me than sublingual cynanocobalamin. My energy stays more level, and I can even take it to handle moments of stress better.

I am also continuing with the injections, which I seem to need more often than the once-a-month that doctors routinely prescribe. Since I do them myself it’s no problem.

You have to remember, the reason some of us must take injections or sublinguals is because we can’t assimilate B12 from food or oral supplements.

]]> by: Michael http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34517 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:18:49 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34517 I've enjoyed most of your postings. I've never posted anything myself. After 6 months of health problems that started with a blocked intestine, I have been diagnosed as B12 deficient. I got my first cyanocobalamin shot about 3 weeks ago and feel somewhat better. However, I'm on an antibiotic regimine for gastritis which may make my B12 deficiency worse. I've been on the treatment for a week and have been taking an oral B12 (cyanocobalamin) supplement every other day to (hopefully) keep my B12 levels from dropping. I have a question. Can I switch to methylcobalamin supplements or alternate supplements from day to day? One symptom I continue to experience is irritated/burning tongue. I understand that methylcobalamin is readily useable by one's body. I have also been eating significant amounts of B12 rich foods. One caution for everyone. If your serum B12 is in the low 200's, even though that is technically "normal" you may still be deficient. In some countries below 500 is believed to be deficient. I’ve enjoyed most of your postings. I’ve never posted anything myself. After 6 months of health problems that started with a blocked intestine, I have been diagnosed as B12 deficient. I got my first cyanocobalamin shot about 3 weeks ago and feel somewhat better. However, I’m on an antibiotic regimine for gastritis which may make my B12 deficiency worse. I’ve been on the treatment for a week and have been taking an oral B12 (cyanocobalamin) supplement every other day to (hopefully) keep my B12 levels from dropping. I have a question. Can I switch to methylcobalamin supplements or alternate supplements from day to day? One symptom I continue to experience is irritated/burning tongue. I understand that methylcobalamin is readily useable by one’s body. I have also been eating significant amounts of B12 rich foods. One caution for everyone. If your serum B12 is in the low 200’s, even though that is technically “normal” you may still be deficient. In some countries below 500 is believed to be deficient.

]]> by: Xan http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34334 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:13:48 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34334 Some of these posts show a serious lack of information, which is good to have before forming opinions. Although the body is, of course, designed to absorb nutrients, there may be a number of reasons why that doesn't always work properly. Vitamin B12 in particular has a very complicated assimilation process which can break down in various ways. When this happens B12 deficiency can cause many problems with digestion, poor immunity, brain and nervous disorders, sleep problems, mental fuzziness, low energy, premature aging, muscle weakness, and so on. Taking regular injections has been medically found to be the most effective treatment, and it is a great relief and blessing for many people to have such a simple solution for their serious problems. Obviously, if you can't absorb enough B12 from food through your digestive system taking an oral supplement won't work either. Because I have pernicious anemia I give myself subcutaneous injections, which is not as weird or difficult as one might think once you get used to it. A nurse showed me how, and the fine insulin needles I use hardly hurt at all. Recently I've been learning that methylcobalamin is used by the body and stored in the liver more effectively than cyanocobalamin, which is what most doctors prescribe. There is some evidence that taking a methylcobalamin sublingually (under the tongue) may be as effective as cyanocobalamin injections, so I'm going to try it. blessings Some of these posts show a serious lack of information, which is good to have before forming opinions.

Although the body is, of course, designed to absorb nutrients, there may be a number of reasons why that doesn’t always work properly. Vitamin B12 in particular has a very complicated assimilation process which can break down in various ways. When this happens B12 deficiency can cause many problems with digestion, poor immunity, brain and nervous disorders, sleep problems, mental fuzziness, low energy, premature aging, muscle weakness, and so on. Taking regular injections has been medically found to be the most effective treatment, and it is a great relief and blessing for many people to have such a simple solution for their serious problems.

Obviously, if you can’t absorb enough B12 from food through your digestive system taking an oral supplement won’t work either.

Because I have pernicious anemia I give myself subcutaneous injections, which is not as weird or difficult as one might think once you get used to it. A nurse showed me how, and the fine insulin needles I use hardly hurt at all.

Recently I’ve been learning that methylcobalamin is used by the body and stored in the liver more effectively than cyanocobalamin, which is what most doctors prescribe. There is some evidence that taking a methylcobalamin sublingually (under the tongue) may be as effective as cyanocobalamin injections, so I’m going to try it.

blessings

]]> by: Julie http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34261 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:03:53 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34261 With a prescription from your Dr., Methylcobalamin injections can be obtained from Hopewell Pharmacy in New Jersey, Coastal Compounding and Post Haste pharmacy amongst others. These are all compounding pharmacies and you should be able to locate them by using google. Hopewell will file insurance for you (depending on your carrier), Coastal and Post Haste will not. With a prescription from your Dr., Methylcobalamin injections can be obtained from Hopewell Pharmacy in New Jersey, Coastal Compounding and Post Haste pharmacy amongst others. These are all compounding pharmacies and you should be able to locate them by using google. Hopewell will file insurance for you (depending on your carrier), Coastal and Post Haste will not.

]]> by: Michelle http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34110 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:11:56 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34110 Hi - I have some medical problems that require my needing the b12 injections. It is way to expensive to keep going into my doctor to do it, and would prefer to do this at home. All I can find on the internet is the other forms of b12 though. Pleeeeaaase tell me where I can get this form that you are using. I'm desperate! Thanx Hi - I have some medical problems that require my needing the b12 injections. It is way to expensive to keep going into my doctor to do it, and would prefer to do this at home. All I can find on the internet is the other forms of b12 though. Pleeeeaaase tell me where I can get this form that you are using. I’m desperate! Thanx

]]> by: Jeff http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34035 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:48:11 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/confessions-of-a-methylcobalamin-junkie-669.html#comment-34035 To Tammy - the "cyano" is cyanide. Although its in a form which doesn't bother most people, apparently some people are especially cyanide sensitive. It sounds like you may be one. Stop taking it! Generally, I don't think theres any real need to inject cobalamin unless you are seriously deficient - just taking large dose methylcobalamin tablets will get you more than enough. Personally I wouldn't consider injecting myself with anything, let alone something which can easily be taken sublingually. "Anonymous" is right about one thing - the body has evolved to take in B12 orally, so it should be able to do it provided you ingest enough. To Tammy - the “cyano” is cyanide. Although its in a form which doesn’t bother most people, apparently some people are especially cyanide sensitive. It sounds like you may be one. Stop taking it!

Generally, I don’t think theres any real need to inject cobalamin unless you are seriously deficient - just taking large dose methylcobalamin tablets will get you more than enough. Personally I wouldn’t consider injecting myself with anything, let alone something which can easily be taken sublingually. “Anonymous” is right about one thing - the body has evolved to take in B12 orally, so it should be able to do it provided you ingest enough.

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