fo Adam-B vitamin injections and functional blood tests

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Hi Anita,

I am going to respond to your post and then I don't know about you

but I am taking a couple of days off of the list, just to catch my breath.

[g]

I am sorry to say that I am not really familiar with the group the

way I would like to be. I am not able to keep up with it. I only

scan the topics in the digest form and unless it is related to

something currently going on with me I am skipping over a lot.

Typing was off my list a few months ago. I spent 5 months not

being able to use the computer much at all, so I am trying to pace

myself.

I would like to go back to the archives and look up your posts

to find answers to questions I have about your health etc, and I

hope to do that over the weekend. That way I don't have to ask you

a million questions that you have already mentioned on the group.

I am very curious about what type of doctor you have that is helping

you to do " functional " viatmin tests?? I have seen a lot of doctors

over the years, mainstream and alternative. It hasn't helped me much

on either side of it. When I have found improvement it is almost always

from my own experimentation and observation. Sounds like you have

done a lot of that yourself. :-)

I will definitely see if my doctor will give me a try of the B complex and

B12 shots. My primary care that I just left was a specialist in nutrition

but I found she gave me less input nutrition wise and less help than any

other doctor I ever had. How can that be?? *sigh*

I will be back the beginning of the week. Oh..who doesn't like the Beach

Boys and Les Mis..! Great taste. [g]

Adam

In a message dated 5/14/2004 5:20:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,

writes:

>

> Hi Adam, So nice to find out more about you. Yup, music and

> gardening are my two passions, too. '

>

I touched upon blood > versus " functional " vitamin tests in a post to

somebody else > today. I usually have much higher enough levels of

B vitamins in > my blood (enough to make one think the levels are

normal), but > FUNCTIONAL B vitamin tests that measure the byproducts

of the > coenxymes that SHOULD be there if I were actually USING the B

> vitamins are invariably VERY, VERY low. So, just because your

> blood levels of B12 are OK, that doesn't mean you are able to

> use it and you also have to have high enough levels of cobalt to

> be able to use it, too.

>

> Don't know if you could pursuade your doc to do functinal B

> vitamin tests, because they are expensive and it's hard to find a

> lab that does them. A cheaper solution is to beg for a trial B

> complex with B12 injection (or just a B 12 injection ) and see

> how you feel. It's my belief that many people who are ill

> (especially with things like mito disorders) probably have some

> sort of gut dysbiosis component problem resulting from their

> illness where they are not able to efficiently absorp, utilise, or

> store some nutrients properly. Thus, I think oral supplementaion

> sometimes isn't enough. In my case I KNOW it isn't as far as the

> B vitamins are concerned.

>

> I am able to take the minerals you asked about orally, but if I

> don't have enough B vitiamins in my system first, it seems like

> they simply don't work. I have to take them at the same time as

> my injection or all the symptoms I associate with the mineral

> deficicies get worse. PLUS, without the injections, my gut and

> stomach quickly feel like one giant muscle cramp so I can't even

> manage to take the mineral supplements without throwing up. I

> need the injections every 24 hours, but that's highly unusual,

> most people who need injection can get by with them much less

> frequently .

>

> Thanks for your kind words re; my " oddity " . I like " rarity " much

> better.

>

> I like those musical examples you listed, too. You ask what I

> liked/like to listen to best......well......um...my favourite is the

> BEACH BOYS, followed by " The Lord Is My Shepherd " from " The

> Requiem " by Rutter. Also like music from " Les Mis " and

> " Guys and Dolls'.

>

> Best Wishes,

> Anita

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