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[holidaylover]

Morning Ladies
I'd've posted many a time about my worst symptom, which is horrible prickly crawly sensations in mostly my legs.  This past month in particular, it has been terrible.  However today, after yet another consultation with Dr Google, something is concerning me.  I am not on HRT, but take daily 1000mg Omega 3 Fish Oil plus a Seven Seas Complete Multivitamin for Women 50+ with energy release complex with Vits B6 and B12.  I have just read that the daily requirement of Vit B6 for women over 50 is 1.5mg.  On reading the back of my supplement packet I see that the B6 in one tablet contains 6mg and is 429% of the RDA.  I have also just found out that too much B6 can cause side effects such as nerve damage.  I'm probably nowhere near taking enough to be causing damage, although combined with the B6 I will be getting from my daily diet, I am wondering if the amount is just too much for me and may either be causing, or at least adding to my symptoms.
Any thoughts?  X

[Ju Ju]

Leave off the supplement for a while and see if your symptoms improve?

[holidaylover]

Yes Ju Ju, that's what I'll do, although I have also just read that side effects don't usually occur unless more that 500mg are consumed daily.  I think, perhaps, it was a bit of wishful thinking on my part that I'd cracked it! X

[Kate50]

I doubt it will be the B vitamins.  The women's nutritional advisory service recommend 50g of all B vitamins every day.

[Kate50]

Sorry 50 mg. That probably would make your legs tingle!

[Kate50]

Do you take any other medications?  Do you take Pottasium that is suppose to help.

[dogdoc]

Hi Holidaylover. It's not good to take supra physiologic doses of anything ( despite what google says so often).

But if it puts your mind at rest at all, three years ago when I started peri one of my main symptoms was tingling. Hands, legs, feet, face, nose. It was awful and I was POSITIVE I had MS. I don't. Three years later I still get tingling occasionally but so much better and less frequent. I think neurologic symptoms are very common for a lot of us in peri ( and possibly post). It would always be a good idea to get checked out by a neurologist of course to make sure everything looks good
Tara

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26007613

[holidaylover]

dogdoc, thanks for that. I've been checked by neurologist (MRI ,etc.) as was also sure I had MS.  Did you find anything that eased the tingling at all? I really don't want to go down the HRT route if possible, as I'm tolerating other symtoms, (sweats, aches, etc).  I'll take a break from the supplements just to see if there is a difference and concentrate on eating a healthy balanced diet.

[Dorothy]

three years ago when I started peri one of my main symptoms was tingling. Hands, legs, feet, face, nose. It was awful and I was POSITIVE I had MS.

Me too to both of those.  Still get it, but not so bad - it eased off as other symptoms increased!

[Dancinggirl]

The tingling and creeping along the legs is a typical meno symptom.  It's one of the symptoms that I really suffer with at night. I came off HRt 5 weeks ago and over the last few nights this horrid sensation has happened, keeping me awake of some time. In summer when it's hot at night this can be really painful!!.
I do agree with the others about dosage of B6 - we all need to be careful when taking any supplements that we don't overdo things.  We should get what we need from our diets and supplements are just needed occasionally or when if we know we tend to be deficient in something.  Vitamin D3 in winter is essential - I was advised my my brother-in-law, who is a consultant gastroenterologist, that everyone needs to take D3 through winter and sometimes in the summer if we don't get any sunshine. Dg x

[Kate50]

One of B6 biggest enemies is oestrogen so all you ladies out there on hrt you need to be getting some!

[Briony]

But if it puts your mind at rest at all, three years ago when I started peri one of my main symptoms was tingling. Hands, legs, feet, face, nose. It was awful and I was POSITIVE I had MS. I don't. Three years later I still get tingling occasionally but so much better and less frequent. I think neurologic symptoms are very common for a lot of us in peri ( and possibly post). It would always be a good idea to get checked out by a neurologist of course to make sure everything looks good
Tara

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26007613

I could have written this! I even went as far as brain scans, MRIs, nerve conduction studies etc until eventually one consultant, after seeing my clear MRIs, asked if anyone had looked at my hormones. Finally they found  it was extreme fluctuations - rather than menopause - that was the cause of my problems.

I think the problem is, as it's not widely seen to be a common hormonal problem (even though anecdotally it clearly is) it's worse for us as there's still that element of nagging doubt (cheers health anxiety  ) .

[Kathleen]

Hello holidaylover.

When I'm having a ' surge ' I get a tingling sensation in my buttocks that adds to my anxiety because I wonder if I need the loo. Thinking about it I don't need  the toilet but the sensation is often followed by a rumbling and some wind. I've never had the tingling anywhere else and it only happens at these times. The whole episode feels as if my system is being flooded with chemicals that then slowly disappear.

I also thought  that too much B6 could cause tingling and nerve damage but I do know that all B vitamins are water soluble so we excrete any excess in our urine. Confusing isn't it.

By coincidence I decided today to start taking a multivitamin designed for the over 50s.To avoid worrying  about overdosing I might just take a tablet once or twice a week instead of daily and see how that goes.

Wishing you well.

K.

[dogdoc]

Holiday lover...nothing helped but time lol. I think I'm heading out of early perimenopause and into late perimenopause. Sparkle I totally forgot about the twitching...OMG my hand, leg, foot whatever would jerk for no reason. Like 'falling asleep' twitches but not when i was falling asleep. That freaked me out too.

The tingling is about 90% gone now except at ovulation when I get a whisper of cobwebs over my nose, or tingling in my hands. The twitching has stopped too. Other fun neuro symptoms I had, but that are now gone ( hopefully permanently) include chronic headache, visual wobble, head tightening sensations, ear whooshes, neck/back pain ( still a bit of this), facial paresthesia, numb lips. No wonder women are sure they're dying during this stage of life. Anything goes.

Tara

[dogdoc]

I am still having periods quite regularly sadly.  They vary from 20-40 days.  The 40 day one I'm fairly certain a skipped a period. In the last 6 months or so hot flashes have got worse but many of my other symptoms have improved particularly the nuttiness of ovulation( which was the worst!!)

Periods are finally getting lighter though after a year or two of hemorrhage with every one.  Thank god!!