sueami
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I'm sorry, I would normally search threads for related questions, but my brain isn't up to it today, so I'm just going to ask for feedback directly.
I started taking small dosages of folate and mb12 a month ago, starting at 400mg folate and a quarter tab of a 5k mb12. I've slowly titered up over the past month, first adding adenosycobalamin/dibencozide and then adding l-carnitine fumarate a week or so ago, once I got some 1500mg potassium chloride tablets in case the protocol triggered potassium deficiency. I have also been taking the Naturemade B complex that Freddd recommended.
I am now taking 1600 mg folate in the am with 2500mg methylb and 4300mg dibencozide (that's half of a pill, but seems really high to me now that I'm looking at it) in the am, and I just bumped from 1200 to 1600 mg folate yesterday afternoon with 2500mg methylb then as well.
This morning I woke up with benign positional paroxysmal vertigo, which I developed for the first time last May but which eventually resolved fully this January. This morning I did the positioning exercises that get it under control more or less but I was terribly dizzy and nauseous, then had chills and a dissociative sort of experience for an hour or so. I took a 1500mg potassium pill and some powdered magnesium citrate (maybe 300-400 mg, I wasn't well enough to measure carefully.) I'm feeling better now but nervous about taking methylation supplements.
The vertigo could well be unrelated to methylation -- I've also been having a ton of hot flashes lately, which I attribute to perimenopause, though they did start about when I started trying methylation supplementation.
I'm wondering if these symptoms of vertigo or chills or brain fog/dissociation are possibly linked to an imbalance in the methylation protocol or might signal the end of a "honeymoon" period with methylation and that I should just push through it. I also wonder if my dosages look right to people.
Lastly, how long did it take for methylation supplementation to begin to improve fatigue and exercise intolerance for folks? I just don't know if should be pushing through or backing off right now.
Thanks in advance,
Sue
I started taking small dosages of folate and mb12 a month ago, starting at 400mg folate and a quarter tab of a 5k mb12. I've slowly titered up over the past month, first adding adenosycobalamin/dibencozide and then adding l-carnitine fumarate a week or so ago, once I got some 1500mg potassium chloride tablets in case the protocol triggered potassium deficiency. I have also been taking the Naturemade B complex that Freddd recommended.
I am now taking 1600 mg folate in the am with 2500mg methylb and 4300mg dibencozide (that's half of a pill, but seems really high to me now that I'm looking at it) in the am, and I just bumped from 1200 to 1600 mg folate yesterday afternoon with 2500mg methylb then as well.
This morning I woke up with benign positional paroxysmal vertigo, which I developed for the first time last May but which eventually resolved fully this January. This morning I did the positioning exercises that get it under control more or less but I was terribly dizzy and nauseous, then had chills and a dissociative sort of experience for an hour or so. I took a 1500mg potassium pill and some powdered magnesium citrate (maybe 300-400 mg, I wasn't well enough to measure carefully.) I'm feeling better now but nervous about taking methylation supplements.
The vertigo could well be unrelated to methylation -- I've also been having a ton of hot flashes lately, which I attribute to perimenopause, though they did start about when I started trying methylation supplementation.
I'm wondering if these symptoms of vertigo or chills or brain fog/dissociation are possibly linked to an imbalance in the methylation protocol or might signal the end of a "honeymoon" period with methylation and that I should just push through it. I also wonder if my dosages look right to people.
Lastly, how long did it take for methylation supplementation to begin to improve fatigue and exercise intolerance for folks? I just don't know if should be pushing through or backing off right now.
Thanks in advance,
Sue