So your neuropathy actually healed from b6 toxicity? I am almost positive that is what happened to me and I stopped taking it about 6 months ago, but still have horrible neuropathy and weird nerve sensations everywhere. It all started when I started taking b6, but I didn't attribute it to it. Later I took it again for a while and got much much worse. How long did it take for your neuropathy to resolve?
So, I know that I had neuropathy issues long before B6 toxicity was tested for and found. I know that it started after I started taking B6 and didn't get any better after I stopped taking it, nor after follow up blood tests showed the b6 levels as normal.
AND that it got better after I did some things. But, I obviously haven't ran a lot of tests with lots of patients, etc... so I don't know how circumstantial it all is. But I do know that after the last nuerologist suggested I needed psychiatric screening, I got mad and I decided it was time to do some research myself.
Time line (and the things I think that I did that helped)...
2004 - I had a PE (not-related), but was diagnosed with high homocysteine levels and told that I should take b6, b12, and folic acid (knowing nothing about anything, I took the cheapest forms which now that I know more about methylation and my own methylation-related genes... was a likely problem).
April 2005, I had recovered for the most part from my PE, but suddenly started to notice dizzy spells, numbness, balance issues, sensation, inability to sense temperature, and my fatigue started to worsen instead of improve.
By fall of 2005 I was in BAD shape and starting to see every doctor and specialist known... by January of 2006, I was bedridden for three months with vision, balance and loss of feeling (all doctors shook their heads in confusion). I did slowly recover my balance and get out of bed, but chronic pain, fatigue and regular dizziness was now a part of my life.
By the following year, my mother got diagnosed with B6 toxicity and it took 3 years of arguing with doctors to get tested for it myself; because "it was impossible for me to be toxic", only I was.
I stopped taking b6 immediately and within six weeks, my blood tests returned normal. But my symptoms didn't improve.
I learned about MTHFR and got tested; got educated and started ramping up Methylfolate at the same time I started epsom salt baths.
The chronic pain was IMMEDIATELY improved after my very first bath (though it does return after about 24-48 hours after the bath).
Within a week, I saw dramatic improvements in dizzy spells, numbness, balance issues, sensation and temperature sensing... within two those were gone (well, I get dizzy spells when my blood pressure drops now).
I attributed it to the methylfolate initially (but I think that was me discounting the benefit of magnesium)... but have since learned even more and found that magnesium is crucial in clearing out b6... so it may have been the baths instead.