Re: Vitamin B 12 deficiency

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If your vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is mild, you may not have symptoms or you may not notice them. Some people may think they are just the result of growing older. Symptoms develop slowly over years, as the amount of vitamin B12 absorbed by the body decreases and the vitamin B12 stored in your body is used up.

As the anemia becomes worse, you may have:

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Weakness.

Fatigue.

Lightheadedness.

A pale appearance.

A sore, red tongue or bleeding gums.

Loss of taste and appetite with weight loss.

Diarrhea or constipation.

A rapid heartbeat or chest pain.

Shortness of breath upon exertion.

Low levels of vitamin B12 cause damage to the brain and nerve cells. The symptoms this causes may be the first ones you notice. They can include:

Numbness or tingling in the fingers and toes.

Poor balance and coordination.

Forgetfulness.

Depression.

Confusion.

Difficulty thinking and concentrating.

Impaired judgment and poor control of impulses.

A decreased ability to sense vibration.

Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

Dementia, a decline in mental abilities that is severe enough to interfere with daily life.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Gloria <gadamscan@...> wrote:

 

Hey, can one of you send that information my way too.  Remember that fall I took a few weeks back, which likely knocked me out for awhile.  Also, I find that if it's fairly dark anywhere, I seem to lose my balance a lot.  If someone was watching me as I take a flash light to go to my truck.  I stagger like a drunk!!

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Thanks TeriGeez, I think I fall into too many of those categories.

If your vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is mild, you may not have symptoms or you may not notice them. Some people may think they are just the result of growing older. Symptoms develop slowly over years, as the amount of vitamin B12 absorbed by the body decreases and the vitamin B12 stored in your body is used up.

As the anemia becomes worse, you may have:

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Understanding Hemophilia -- Diagnosis and Treatment

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That could be a problem....  maybe easily solved.  Glad it helped you.  Hugs,TeriOn Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Gloria <gadamscan@...> wrote:

 

Thanks TeriGeez, I think I fall into too many of those categories.

 

If your vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is mild, you may not have symptoms or you may not notice them. Some people may think they are just the result of growing older. Symptoms develop slowly over years, as the amount of vitamin B12 absorbed by the body decreases and the vitamin B12 stored in your body is used up.

As the anemia becomes worse, you may have:

Recommended Related to Blood Disorders

Understanding Hemophilia -- Diagnosis and Treatment

Normally, when bleeding begins, a complex series of chemical events produces a " plug " to stop the bleeding; this plug is called a fibrin clot. The fibrin clot is the end-product of many different " clotting factors " reacting in the blood. Hemophilia is an inherited condition in which one of these clotting factors (factor VIII or IX) is absent from the blood, so that it does not clot normally. If your doctor suspects that you have hemophilia, she will perform blood tests to examine how well your blood...

Read the Understanding Hemophilia -- Diagnosis and Treatment article > >

Weakness.

Fatigue.

Lightheadedness.

A pale appearance.

A sore, red tongue or bleeding gums.

Loss of taste and appetite with weight loss.

Diarrhea or constipation.

A rapid heartbeat or chest pain.

Shortness of breath upon exertion.

Low levels of vitamin B12 cause damage to the brain and nerve cells. The symptoms this causes may be the first ones you notice. They can include:

Numbness or tingling in the fingers and toes.

Poor balance and coordination.

Forgetfulness.

Depression.

Confusion.

Difficulty thinking and concentrating.

Impaired judgment and poor control of impulses.

A decreased ability to sense vibration.

Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

Dementia, a decline in mental abilities that is severe enough to interfere with daily life.

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That's some scarey crap! Especially scarey since it's my world!! Except for wieght loss LoL. But then, I didn't lose wieght on tx! But y'all have " known " me long enough to realize that ALL of the symptoms have been ME. " A well-behaved woman never made history " Mae Westhttp://facebook.com/people/andTrudy-Kinsey/1340460877 On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Theresa Gottlieb <theresagottlieb@...> wrote:

If your vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is mild, you may not have symptoms or you may not notice them. Some people may think they are just the result of growing older. Symptoms develop slowly over years, as the amount of vitamin B12 absorbed by the body decreases and the vitamin B12 stored in your body is used up.

As the anemia becomes worse, you may have:

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