Hi there Red,
Just thought I would give an update since you have been so kind with your thoughts with a lot of my questions. I caved and got a serum Potassium test, came back at 4.2 with lab range 3.5-5.2. Now that is with tracking potassium in Fitday and aiming for 4000 mg from food and taking an additional 3 x 99mg supps. I can't imagine how low it would be if I were not doing that. On Friday evening I did start to experience gastric upset, and what felt like stomach cramping. I forced food down and it finally mellowed out. But then Saturday it was the same... my guts felt sore and the muscle spasms continued. Yesterday I woke with a terrible headache... All of these things point to low potassium. I was hoping that my serum would show much lower than 4.2 so I could be sure it is potassium we are dealing with, but I would expect it to be much higher from all the food and supplements in the absence of forced methylation.
Also, I noticed that on my most recent and all my old serum tests, my Alkaline Phosphatase shows on the very low end of range. Like I think the low end is 30 and I am at 32 out of 150. I did a quick google and it looks like that can be because of B12 or B6 deficiency. Interesting.
Everyone keeps saying the Jarrow formula is no good, but if it weren't working for me I would expect my paraesthesia to return, but it has not. I wonder if it works just enough for me? Who knows, I will switch to Enzymatic Therapy just to be safe.
Any thoughts you might have on my Potassium reading would of course be welcome.
The obvious question is, do you know where your B12 levels are at? It just might be that you are low in Mg, Magnesium and P5P which should be taken at the same time in order to be effective. I read this in my book, Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments.