Hi there everybody,
I hope you're all well today. Sorry, I promise I have been searching in the forums for answers to my query first but there's a lot of posts about potassium. As usual I would be grateful for some perspectives.
So I've been titrating Mb12 for maybe 3 weeks now. I have 5000mcg by Jarrow and after a terrible first try a few months ago in which I took the whole tablet every day and ended up in hospital with an arrythmia and chest pains, I followed very good advice, came off it all, and have started afresh 3 weeks back at just 1/8th of the pill, so 600mcg. I took that for 2 weeks just to be sure I was ok with that dose, and by the 2nd week my potassium needs went up. I felt able to control it by getting maybe 3000mg of potassium each day and upping my magnesium (maybe 800-1000) mg per day plus a bit of calcium.
In the 3rd week I have upped to 1250mcg of Mb12, and as expected, my potassium needs have ramped up.
I feel I wake up already deficient and usually cram in about 1500/2000 in the morning, either by making a smoothie with 3 bananas and milk or taking half a tsp of Lo-salt in OJ. a couple of times throughout the day I then take 3/4 potassium tablets (99mg) and try and eat a couple more bananas. I feel I then need another 1500 by dinner time, so I've been adding another half a teaspoon of Lo-salt to a tomato or something, and then sometimes having a couple more potassium tablets or molasses and milk before bed. Basically, throughout the day, I'm getting about 5000 mg of potassium. I feel this only just keeps the fatigue and body pains at bay.
I am ok doing this, I no longer feel in danger like last time and know now to just keep chugging the potassium, but I am curious to know if this level of need will be an ongoing thing?
I have seen a couple of people mention the need for B2, I don't know if I have deficiency of that but I get my B complex through a tablespoon a day of Brewer's Yeast, which has about 120% of the RDA for B2 and about 200% of the RDA for the other B vits (except B6/12).
I am also curious about the affects of B12 on mood. I'm gonna be honest and say I am a fairly depressive/anxious/angry person lol and the last week I've had a weird feeling which is like within an hour or so of taking the Mb12 I feel kind of happy, and I feel that my mind is not spinning off into those depressing/fearful thought cycles. I have been really excited by this but it seems to wear off after maybe 8 hours or so. I so much want to take another dose of B12 but while the potassium needs are so high I feel I can't risk it.
Has anybody else used Mb12 for depression/anxiety? Did it help? How long did it take?
Thank you as always for the thoughts and experience! I think all you guys are awesome for being so kind and helpful ))
I hope you're all well today. Sorry, I promise I have been searching in the forums for answers to my query first but there's a lot of posts about potassium. As usual I would be grateful for some perspectives.
So I've been titrating Mb12 for maybe 3 weeks now. I have 5000mcg by Jarrow and after a terrible first try a few months ago in which I took the whole tablet every day and ended up in hospital with an arrythmia and chest pains, I followed very good advice, came off it all, and have started afresh 3 weeks back at just 1/8th of the pill, so 600mcg. I took that for 2 weeks just to be sure I was ok with that dose, and by the 2nd week my potassium needs went up. I felt able to control it by getting maybe 3000mg of potassium each day and upping my magnesium (maybe 800-1000) mg per day plus a bit of calcium.
In the 3rd week I have upped to 1250mcg of Mb12, and as expected, my potassium needs have ramped up.
I feel I wake up already deficient and usually cram in about 1500/2000 in the morning, either by making a smoothie with 3 bananas and milk or taking half a tsp of Lo-salt in OJ. a couple of times throughout the day I then take 3/4 potassium tablets (99mg) and try and eat a couple more bananas. I feel I then need another 1500 by dinner time, so I've been adding another half a teaspoon of Lo-salt to a tomato or something, and then sometimes having a couple more potassium tablets or molasses and milk before bed. Basically, throughout the day, I'm getting about 5000 mg of potassium. I feel this only just keeps the fatigue and body pains at bay.
I am ok doing this, I no longer feel in danger like last time and know now to just keep chugging the potassium, but I am curious to know if this level of need will be an ongoing thing?
I have seen a couple of people mention the need for B2, I don't know if I have deficiency of that but I get my B complex through a tablespoon a day of Brewer's Yeast, which has about 120% of the RDA for B2 and about 200% of the RDA for the other B vits (except B6/12).
I am also curious about the affects of B12 on mood. I'm gonna be honest and say I am a fairly depressive/anxious/angry person lol and the last week I've had a weird feeling which is like within an hour or so of taking the Mb12 I feel kind of happy, and I feel that my mind is not spinning off into those depressing/fearful thought cycles. I have been really excited by this but it seems to wear off after maybe 8 hours or so. I so much want to take another dose of B12 but while the potassium needs are so high I feel I can't risk it.
Has anybody else used Mb12 for depression/anxiety? Did it help? How long did it take?
Thank you as always for the thoughts and experience! I think all you guys are awesome for being so kind and helpful ))