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Hi,
I've made a few posts on here about my problems with b-vitamins, subsequent MTHFR dx, and problems with methyl bs. I'm not sure but I think I may have developed a methyl trap situation and I'm wondering how I can get out of it…
So I started methyl b12 and methyl folate back in mid Novemrber… 1000mcg of both… did not do well… particularly with the methyl b12 (may have COMT) cut the doses in half and by early January stopped them all together…. Then started to have symptoms of periodic agitation, tightness in chest, anxiety. This would come and go…
Some updated labs showed a jump in my homocysteine from 8.0 to 9.2 in just over a month (my homocysteine levels are usually around 8) . My folate test came back pretty high 922. Even my b6 came back at 15 with 21 being top range… now I have not been feeling well since November and lost almost 20 lbs… not eating a lot of folate or anything else for that matter…
I'm wondering if I have created a built up of folate that my body can't get rid of…
problem is I don't do well with methyl b12 and I tried Hydroxy b12 twice and felt like I was having a heart attack both times… blood pressure went sky high… and I'm already taking PP meds… I worried I may be damaging my cardiovascular system. I know I can take adeno b12 but that goes down a completely different pathway. Would taking the adeno b12 help break the methyl trap just by getting my b12 up or does it need to be a methyl version… ?
If not
what happens to pooled folate… does it eventually dissipate or just continue to build up ? I'm even afraid to do my green smoothies for fear to causing my folate to go even higher
Anyone have any suggests on how I can reduce my pooled folate if that is what is going on
I've made a few posts on here about my problems with b-vitamins, subsequent MTHFR dx, and problems with methyl bs. I'm not sure but I think I may have developed a methyl trap situation and I'm wondering how I can get out of it…
So I started methyl b12 and methyl folate back in mid Novemrber… 1000mcg of both… did not do well… particularly with the methyl b12 (may have COMT) cut the doses in half and by early January stopped them all together…. Then started to have symptoms of periodic agitation, tightness in chest, anxiety. This would come and go…
Some updated labs showed a jump in my homocysteine from 8.0 to 9.2 in just over a month (my homocysteine levels are usually around 8) . My folate test came back pretty high 922. Even my b6 came back at 15 with 21 being top range… now I have not been feeling well since November and lost almost 20 lbs… not eating a lot of folate or anything else for that matter…
I'm wondering if I have created a built up of folate that my body can't get rid of…
problem is I don't do well with methyl b12 and I tried Hydroxy b12 twice and felt like I was having a heart attack both times… blood pressure went sky high… and I'm already taking PP meds… I worried I may be damaging my cardiovascular system. I know I can take adeno b12 but that goes down a completely different pathway. Would taking the adeno b12 help break the methyl trap just by getting my b12 up or does it need to be a methyl version… ?
If not
what happens to pooled folate… does it eventually dissipate or just continue to build up ? I'm even afraid to do my green smoothies for fear to causing my folate to go even higher
Anyone have any suggests on how I can reduce my pooled folate if that is what is going on