Oral B12 instead of injections - question about doses

February 1, 2012

following my appointment with the private consultant - not so sure about him,

whilst charming and seemingly willing to help, he is NOT a fan of alternative

treatments and great at trying to scare you with dangerous T3/Armour stories!

We'll wait and see...

Anyways, sorry, he said that I don't need to have the B12 injections (the

thought does truly terrify me and I know I'm never good after the stress of

anything involving a needle... weekly injections are not for me!)as long as I

can " demonstrate that I am taking in sufficient B12 " . He didn't clarify. So, I

read a few studies about the use of oral B12 as an alternative to injections,

I've attached the link to the Swedish one, the first paragraph says it all

I know that I need to take 2000mcg daily initially and then 1000mcg daily,

1000mcg weekly and finally 1000mcg monthly. My question is, does anyone know

for how long I start with the initial dose? He's told me to come back for

bloods in 7-8 weeks. I know that I can't overdose on B12; if all else fails,

I'll stick to 2000mcg till the blood test. I've got the Solgar Liquid B12

winging its way to me now.

Meanwhile, he's taken me off the pill (Yasmin) and upped my thyroxine ( " the only

safe thyroid medication " ) to 125mcg daily. He thinks the pill is raising my

cortisol (this is in direct response to my GPs referal letter about my

mentioning adrenals). Will only do a plasma cortisol test so I'll do the saliva

test myself, but going to wait now till the pill has cleared out of my system.

The TSH level he was looking at was 10.8 and FT4 3.06 (sorry, off the top of my

head, I can't remember the values on the end!) which he said were.... " normal " .

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