Supplements/herbs

Originally Posted by pelathais

I try to take Vitamin B supplements. I'm not very religious about it, but with the crazy diet that I'm forced to follow and the crazy schedule I need all the help I can get. I just picked up a bottle of fish oil because it occurs to me that I haven't been eating much fish. These tabs are huge! Like little sardines themselves.

I think the schedule is the worst culprit of all. We make so many compromises just to keep a schedule.

Amen to the bolded statement. My schedule and the associated stress are my biggest problem.

I do take a sublingual Vitamin B complex with folic acid AND a 1000 mcg of B12. I have done some research on Pernicious Anemia and B12 deficiencies and I have discovered that the symptoms of both have been prevalent in my life for the last 5 years since being diagnosed with IBS. Typically the cause of Pernicious Anemia is B12 shortage due to changes in the stomach and intestines causing an inability to absorb B12 from either supplementation or food stuffs. More and more now, the doctors that are really focusing are saying the condition may not be as rare as it is Underdiagnosed.

I have been feeling better since I started with the sublingual B12 Complex with folic acid which was just over a week ago.

With your history, you ought to check it out. It can cause low RCB counts resulting in poor oxygen transport to the nerves and tissue, ulitmately resulting in nerve and organ damage.