Hello all,
I'm new here, but I really need your help and expertise. This week I decided to start and try Fredds B12 protocol, and started tuesday. I've been taking a multi vitamin + extra magnesium for a while, so I just started by adding a 1/4th of a 1000mcg of methylcobalamin.
So on thursday, I got over eager because I felt it went really well, and took almost 1 whole pill, which I definitely shouldn't have. Around mid afternoon I almost passed out. I had really bad dizzyness, nausea and shortness of breath.
I panicked and thought that must be because of a lack of potassium, so I ate a couple of bananes and took around 500 - 600 mg of potassium gluconate.
That seemed to help a bit, and I felt better after a couple of hours or so. It scared me so much that I decided it would proberbly be best to back of the b12 for a while, and regain my "balance" and then start up again, at a much, much slower pace.
But friday, I was suffering from extreme anxiety. I tried to stop it by taking some small doses of Niacin, which helped. Saturday was a really bad day, I almost passed out again, with shortness of breath ect., I kept taking Niacin, but it didn't work at all..
So today is by far the worst day of the all, because I feel really seriously bad. I suffer from extreme thirst, and seem to urinate A LOT, so I can't seem to keep any fluids in me at all, I feel like I´m completely dehydrated and that scares me quite a bit (I still take potassium). Other than that and nausea, I suffer from the worst anxiety I have ever known. I can't sit still at all, I'm pacing back and forth, and my chest feels like it's on fire. My brain fog is about a 100 times worse than before, and I haven't slept a whole lot since thursday.
Can all this really come from 3 days of supplementing with methyl b12?? Have any of you tried something similar, and how long do you think it'll take before it's over?
Sorry for the long post, but please if any of you have any advice or knowledge to share, please do. I'm getting really desparate here, and I don't know what to do at all.
Thanks
Steen
I'm new here, but I really need your help and expertise. This week I decided to start and try Fredds B12 protocol, and started tuesday. I've been taking a multi vitamin + extra magnesium for a while, so I just started by adding a 1/4th of a 1000mcg of methylcobalamin.
So on thursday, I got over eager because I felt it went really well, and took almost 1 whole pill, which I definitely shouldn't have. Around mid afternoon I almost passed out. I had really bad dizzyness, nausea and shortness of breath.
I panicked and thought that must be because of a lack of potassium, so I ate a couple of bananes and took around 500 - 600 mg of potassium gluconate.
That seemed to help a bit, and I felt better after a couple of hours or so. It scared me so much that I decided it would proberbly be best to back of the b12 for a while, and regain my "balance" and then start up again, at a much, much slower pace.
But friday, I was suffering from extreme anxiety. I tried to stop it by taking some small doses of Niacin, which helped. Saturday was a really bad day, I almost passed out again, with shortness of breath ect., I kept taking Niacin, but it didn't work at all..
So today is by far the worst day of the all, because I feel really seriously bad. I suffer from extreme thirst, and seem to urinate A LOT, so I can't seem to keep any fluids in me at all, I feel like I´m completely dehydrated and that scares me quite a bit (I still take potassium). Other than that and nausea, I suffer from the worst anxiety I have ever known. I can't sit still at all, I'm pacing back and forth, and my chest feels like it's on fire. My brain fog is about a 100 times worse than before, and I haven't slept a whole lot since thursday.
Can all this really come from 3 days of supplementing with methyl b12?? Have any of you tried something similar, and how long do you think it'll take before it's over?
Sorry for the long post, but please if any of you have any advice or knowledge to share, please do. I'm getting really desparate here, and I don't know what to do at all.
Thanks
Steen
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