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maddietod

maddietod

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I wish I could say something helpful! The advice to work up slowly is useful. I've never had trouble with a supplement, but LCF did something to my digestion that took a month to fix. You never know what might bite you!

I figured out how much potassium to take because I got a very specific kind of neck and shoulder pain when potassium was low. But I never understood how to know the right dose of metafolin.

After the LCF debacle, I went back to a modified simplified protocol, because 2000 mcg of B12 seems to be plenty for me.

Good luck!
 
SickOfSickness

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The first time I took LCF, I thought I had intestinal discomfort from it, but I haven't had that since. Today I took more LCF and I have been having other uncomfortable symptoms. It's waves of anxiety symptoms. They may not be from LCF, but I think so. I was also having more anxiety symptoms, more than I would expect to have, 2 weeks ago. I had no idea why. I wonder if it's related to methylation.

I am starting to feel like quitting methylation, because I don't know if I can do it right. I don't know if we get any benefit if we do it wrong. I think I am supposed to increase LCF slowly until I reach "neurological brightening". It should be easy to tell, unmistakable? I don't know if I can tolerate much LCF. I will keep going but I am worried I won't get the brightening because of not tolerating it.
 
maddietod

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The LCF is an add-on, so if the rest of the protocol wasn't giving you trouble, could you just leave out the LCF? Some of us are very sensitive to it, for unknown reasons.
 
SickOfSickness

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madietodd said:
The LCF is an add-on, so if the rest of the protocol wasn't giving you trouble, could you just leave out the LCF? Some of us are very sensitive to it, for unknown reasons.
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Maybe. I'm going to keep trying it for now. I think not having "brightening" yet means that the adb12 isn't activating the healing? Whatever is supposed to happen. Freddd had said do LCF after you reach the 800 mg metafolin, 1/4 adb12, and 1 each of the mb12. If I don't do LCF, would I start increasing metafolin? If I don't do LCF, maybe I could do one of those other supplements that is supposed to enhance adb12.
 
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