All right, my vaping report and current thoughts on inhalation therapy:
I ended my vape test at 24 hours; I realized that I was not only feeling the MeCbl (yeah, baby!) but I was accumulating an odd brain-fog. Both my ND and @
bluewhistled pointed out that there were additives in the solution I was using I might not want in my lungs. Suspect that's the case. Possibly cause of brainfog, too.
So I need a quality MeCbl without additives to resume my testing.
I wants it very, very badly.
Ingredients listed as: Methylcobalamin & Vegetable glycerin, deionized water, raspberry and berry natural flavors, citric acid. I'm assuming you're not concerned about inhaling "raspberry and berry natural flavors, citric acid"? Hey, it's probably better than Benzalkonium Chloride and sodium hydroxide NF, which is what's in my nasal spray and was in my lungs for 24 hours.
But I am concerned that they say this product is good until "Jun 2016", which seems painfully unlikely, and makes me not trust them. Even with all the preservatives in the nasal spray Key Compounding Pharmacy made for me, the potency drops below 92% at 60 days after manufacture, and presumably goes down from there. (No, I don't know how fast. Yes, I want all their testing reports.)
I spoke with my Naturopathic Doctor today about inhalation therapy, and she's almost as jazzed by the idea as I am, having been a long-time fan of nebulizers and pulmonary application of various supplements. She says we need to find MeCbl without additives, that has been independantly tested for potency, and has been handled correctly with regard to light-sensitivity. It would be good if it were sterile, too.
As you know, MeCbl is fragile stuff. It ages fast, it deteriorates in light, and needs to be kept refrigerated. I have spent hours on the phone talking to compounding pharmacists about testing, light protection, and shipping processes. (Annoyingly, I knew things about MeCbl that they didn't know.)
Also there is the issue of sterility of the base substance. While the air we breathe is not sterile, MeCbl that's been contaminated and stored for a while has time to grow things that we definitely don't want in our lungs. The best of substances might not be sterile by the time it combines with the air in the room and gets through our vape/neb devices into our lungs, but it won't have have had a month or two (Jun 2016?) to grow something our lungs will be far more vulnerable to than our mouths or noses or stomachs.
I'm coming to understand that this is one of the trade-offs of inhalation -- the source product must have a much higher standard of purity.
This is one of the advantages of sublingual pills-- they are far more stable. They can handle light. They age well. They are sterile. BUT -- they don't absorb as well, and they also have filler to stablize them, the sorts of things you might not want in your body (and sure don't want in your lungs).
What I'm saying is this: it would be easy to end up with MeCbl to inhale that has little or no potency because of poor manufacturing or aging, making the vape/neb testing meaningless or worse. It doesn't matter how good a deal the MeCbl is if it doesn't work.
I've contacted bio-alternatives (
http://www.bio-alternatives.net/b12.htm) about their product, both by email and phone, but they never answered my last query, so I'm not hopeful. I'm guessing that places like bio-alternatives couldn't afford to sell MeCbl at the price they do if they had 3rd party testing, or handled the substance with the care it needs, but I'd love to be wrong. I've also contacted california xtracts (maker of the iherb product above --
http://californiaxtracts.com/contact-us) to ask them about their potency testing and handling processes.
@
bluewhistled, @
Hip, @kswag, @
traray, @
ahmo: does anyone have a source for MeCble that is verified potent, has no additives, that is suitable for inhaling? I don't need it to be dirt-cheap; I need it to be reliable, pure, and potent.
Because if we don't start with quality ingredients, the delivery method is irrelevant.
My thanks to all.