Like many here, I have experienced a profound alleviation of fatigue and brain fog from B12. So, naturally I engulfed myself in the whole methylation angle.
If I stopped taking B12, my symptoms would worsen within a week. So, Greg's theory of functional B2 deficiency chimed a lot.
However, I've recently come to believe that B12 is not acting as a vitamin when it alleviated my symptoms. Recently, I began taking cumin and have found it can replace B12 to produce the same improvements. I've been off B12 for long enough now that the symptoms should have returned - the constipation and urinary tract pain is usually the first, alongside an increase in fatigue. But this has not happened.
My thread on cumin: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...-my-poisoned-feeling-gone-pem-what-pem.84337/
It seems to work better than B12 (so far). B12 causes me air hunger, this is a lot milder with cumin. My days are more energetic, the effect on fatigue is greater. The only problem is that I need to dose cumin more frequently because the effects are very short-lived. However, this still works out cheaper than B12. Much cheaper.
I think it was B12's effect on cytokines which helped, which it has in common with cumin. I am now trying to investigate whether I have a chronic sinus infection from mold and fungal exposure years ago... this would make sense with some of my other symptoms.
So, for now I'm off the B12 (right after spending over a hundred quid on Greg's oils
)
ETA: My heart rate is so much more under control now that I'm off the B12. I only started monitoring it when on B12, so I just presumed I had POTS. Now, my HR is so much better behaved and I may not even qualify for POTS any more.
If I stopped taking B12, my symptoms would worsen within a week. So, Greg's theory of functional B2 deficiency chimed a lot.
However, I've recently come to believe that B12 is not acting as a vitamin when it alleviated my symptoms. Recently, I began taking cumin and have found it can replace B12 to produce the same improvements. I've been off B12 for long enough now that the symptoms should have returned - the constipation and urinary tract pain is usually the first, alongside an increase in fatigue. But this has not happened.
My thread on cumin: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...-my-poisoned-feeling-gone-pem-what-pem.84337/
It seems to work better than B12 (so far). B12 causes me air hunger, this is a lot milder with cumin. My days are more energetic, the effect on fatigue is greater. The only problem is that I need to dose cumin more frequently because the effects are very short-lived. However, this still works out cheaper than B12. Much cheaper.
I think it was B12's effect on cytokines which helped, which it has in common with cumin. I am now trying to investigate whether I have a chronic sinus infection from mold and fungal exposure years ago... this would make sense with some of my other symptoms.
So, for now I'm off the B12 (right after spending over a hundred quid on Greg's oils
)ETA: My heart rate is so much more under control now that I'm off the B12. I only started monitoring it when on B12, so I just presumed I had POTS. Now, my HR is so much better behaved and I may not even qualify for POTS any more.
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