Sparkle your B12 is far to low......anything below 550 is considered low and ideally should be at a 1,000 for proper neurological and a whole host of other symptoms .
A lot of dementia is actually B12 deficiency, as told by a NHS geriatric consultant who would never have believed this herself until she also found out she was B12 deficient, she now checks the bloods of all her dementia patients for B12 deficiency and lots are.
Apparently for some reason it has got " forgotten in med school " about the real importance of B12 as it has been known about for a very long time.
Within range can be between 200 and 900 HUGE difference so I would definitely be treating yours at that reading sparkle. However over the counter B12 is not enough daily allowance and optimal daily allowance again are to different things. My hubby is on a very high dose as told by the specialist.
Very often a low B12 also has low vitamin D / calcium / ferritin and thyroid issues. Again the NHS testing of thyroid is just not good enough. The lecture given by a top NHS thyroid professor said exactly this.
I now have a nutritionist and I am sorting all this out.
My hubby had what at first was told to be a stroke, on a stroke ward for 24 hours.....then they decided no. From there 3 years of getting iller and iller , immunology dept , dermatologist, 3 a&e admissions , was heading for a wheel chair as had NO energy for anything was looking at early retirement.
Now he saw THREE neurologists plus the other consultants cost the NHS goodness knows what.....we were left to get on with it. So I got onto Dr Google , paid for a host of blood tests that may show a reason for his symptoms " hey presto" B12 deficiency. Found Dr Chandry UK expert , six months on he is back at the gym after 3 years and can do a full days work without almost collapsing and falling asleep, he also follows the same nutritional path as I do.
There is an excellent book called could it be B12 written by Sally Patholock , she was diagnosed with MS if it wasn't for the " on the ball consultsant " she mentioned her symptoms to ( she is a nurse ) she would have gone down the MS route it was B12 all along , MS and B12 deficiency mimic each other very often.
If after a year hubby is still doing well , he will write to all the consultants as it really is very basic stuff and should be expected by a neurologist and immunologist from top hospitals, my hubby really could of ended up in a wheelchair because if you remain B12 deficient for a very long time it can have irreparable damage to the mylene sheath. This may make some realise why I always say get your results in front of you , and do your own research.
WE ARE OUR OWN HEALTH ADVOCATES.
