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Well, you may be old :) but you could need B12 shots too. Is your B12

dropping? My hematologist prescribed the B12 & syringes and I give them to

myself. The sub-linguals didn't work for me, my B12 just kept dropping

lower and lower.

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> Hey kids,

>

> I was waiting for my next ferritin test to see how much the iron helped.

I

> feel better, less winded, but I feel like I need more.

>

> Then I started wondering about B-12. I take the sublinguals, but last

labs

> were 590 where the " normal " range was 250-1100.

>

> Anyone have experience with this? Should I ask for a shot, or am I just

> OLD????

>

> in Austin

> RNY April 1998

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To me, your B-12 seems to be doing really well. I myself have always gotten

monthly shots. My levels have never gotten above 400. If I miss my shots, my

levels drop. I will tell you though, after a shot, I get a good week of

great energy! I would love to know how I felt at a blood level of 800 or so.

Dawn

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Dawn,

Why don't you ask the doctor for a prescription for B-12 and needles to

do it yourself? My PCP considers levels under 600 unacceptable and I do

my shots every 10 days to keep me there. My " natural " B-12 level pre-op

was 1151, for comparison and I personally would like to get back THERE,

but it's probably not going to happen. I have good energy all the time

(unless I stay out until 2 am LOL) A year's supply of the vitamin and

needles runs about $20 so it's cheap even if you're insurance won't

cover it. It's easy to give yourself the shots and your doctor or a

nurse can show you how.

I wish this was standard practice in our community. Not only do many

people suffer with low energy levels because of low B-12 in their blood,

but over time as the B-12 stores are depleted from the liver (takes 2-5

years, depending on how good your stores were to begin with), you're

setting yourself up for pernicious anemia which can be serious and can

be difficult to treat since so many of us also seem to have iron

absorption problems and low ferritin levels.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000569.htm

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Re: b-12 levels

,

To me, your B-12 seems to be doing really well. I myself have always

gotten monthly shots. My levels have never gotten above 400. If I miss

my shots, my levels drop. I will tell you though, after a shot, I get a

good week of great energy! I would love to know how I felt at a blood

level of 800 or so.

Dawn

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I do have a prescriptions for B-12. I get 6 in a box from the pharmacy. I

suppose it might be a good idea to give them myself...passed out on the

floor here...lol. So what are your levels at the moment? And you get it

every 10 days? Hummm...I really would like to have high energy levels ALL

the time.

On another note., have you or anyone else had a bad reaction to a vitamin

shot? I got my vitamin D and a vitamin A shot over a week ago now. The A

shot was fine. I could move my left hip well for 2 days after the vitamin D.

It also bruised worse than any blood draw I've ever had. Now I have this

dark purple bruise that is not going away and have developed hives all

around it. I go back next week for more. I am gonna make noise...lol

Busy week for me, next week. Monday dentist, Tuesday breast lift and Friday

more vitamin shots. Whew!

Dawn

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I self-inject B-12 and the only problem I've ever had is a large bulge

that showed up at the injection site here I got it under the skin but

not into the muscle.

Bad technique, says my wife.

So it took a while to go down and I got a bruise. No big deal.

/john

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Dawn Conner-Jeppesen

wrote:

> ,

>

> I do have a prescriptions for B-12. I get 6 in a box from the

> pharmacy. I

> suppose it might be a good idea to give them myself...passed out on the

> floor here...lol. So what are your levels at the moment? And you get it

> every 10 days? Hummm...I really would like to have high energy levels

> ALL

> the time.

>

> On another note., have you or anyone else had a bad reaction to a

> vitamin

> shot? I got my vitamin D and a vitamin A shot over a week ago now. The

> A

> shot was fine. I could move my left hip well for 2 days after the

> vitamin D.

> It also bruised worse than any blood draw I've ever had. Now I have

> this

> dark purple bruise that is not going away and have developed hives all

> around it. I go back next week for more. I am gonna make noise...lol

>

> Busy week for me, next week. Monday dentist, Tuesday breast lift and

> Friday

> more vitamin shots. Whew!

> Dawn

>

>

>

> Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

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> Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe

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>

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Just my take friend Dave on B-12 but got a set of labs couple of years back

with level just under 400 even doing injections, and on the lab report was a

warning that even though most " normal " ranges were from 250-1100 or so

levels below 400 have been found to have some association with emotional

swings, etc. Well,,,,,,as I am the original emotional swinger, that was

nuff for me! I increased injections and slight amounts to where I do just

wee more than ml every three weeks,,,,,that tends to keep things above the

600 mark, which - for me - is where I want them as a minimum. Just my .03

on it.

Dan Slone

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b-12 levels

Hey kids,

I was waiting for my next ferritin test to see how much the iron helped. I

feel better, less winded, but I feel like I need more.

Then I started wondering about B-12. I take the sublinguals, but last labs

were 590 where the " normal " range was 250-1100.

Anyone have experience with this? Should I ask for a shot, or am I just

OLD????

in Austin

RNY April 1998

Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe

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