Kitsune
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Hi, I hope it's OK that I've put this in a new thread. If it would be better for me to post questions like this in an existing thread, someone please point out an appropriate one and I'll stick to that.
Anyway, I didn't know what methylation was until I found this forum not long ago. I was working on 2 things: improving my existing supplement regime, and taking natural antivirals. I found some good advice about supplements to take in the threads about methylation and was just about at the level of having all the basic co-factors in place, and thought meB12 would be a good thing to add, though I didn't intend to actually go through with a full methylation protocol.
However, I've been taking 1000mcg meB12 for a week and have found a need to supplement a bit of potassium at times. Today I was feeling quite sleepy, then started to get dizzy and had some mild heart racing. Potassium seemed to mostly mitigate this (just a 400mg dose). But it frightened me - if I'm only taking the 1000mcg of meB12, it looks to me from what I've read here that it could be enough for me to need ALL the methylation supplements in place - and on top of this, I have some adB12 on order.
So maybe by default I've started something I need to do properly. I've got the recommended gamma E on order now, and the Solgar methylfolate (at the moment I'm getting what I think may be vegetarian folate from my multi and B-complex - not the same thing, I know, though at least it's not folic acid). But I'm still frightened about a few things.
It looks like I could end up having to take massive amounts of methylfolate, which must be expensive. I could try asking my doctor for a deplin prescription, especially since he knows I've had depressive symptoms in the past, though I don't know if this is generally available through the NHS.
I guess I'll be OK with keeping a bottle of 200mg potassium tablets around for when I need them? I just hope I can learn to recognise deficiency symptoms for this and differentiate them from deficiency symptoms for other things, like the methylfolate.
Is Freddd around these days? If I got myself in trouble and was really ill, I hope I would be able to come here and get some support. It looks like there are a lot of friendly and knowledgeable folks here, though it doesn't look to me like Freddd's been active lately.
If anyone else has any advice, I'd be keen to hear it. Thanks!
Anyway, I didn't know what methylation was until I found this forum not long ago. I was working on 2 things: improving my existing supplement regime, and taking natural antivirals. I found some good advice about supplements to take in the threads about methylation and was just about at the level of having all the basic co-factors in place, and thought meB12 would be a good thing to add, though I didn't intend to actually go through with a full methylation protocol.
However, I've been taking 1000mcg meB12 for a week and have found a need to supplement a bit of potassium at times. Today I was feeling quite sleepy, then started to get dizzy and had some mild heart racing. Potassium seemed to mostly mitigate this (just a 400mg dose). But it frightened me - if I'm only taking the 1000mcg of meB12, it looks to me from what I've read here that it could be enough for me to need ALL the methylation supplements in place - and on top of this, I have some adB12 on order.
So maybe by default I've started something I need to do properly. I've got the recommended gamma E on order now, and the Solgar methylfolate (at the moment I'm getting what I think may be vegetarian folate from my multi and B-complex - not the same thing, I know, though at least it's not folic acid). But I'm still frightened about a few things.
It looks like I could end up having to take massive amounts of methylfolate, which must be expensive. I could try asking my doctor for a deplin prescription, especially since he knows I've had depressive symptoms in the past, though I don't know if this is generally available through the NHS.
I guess I'll be OK with keeping a bottle of 200mg potassium tablets around for when I need them? I just hope I can learn to recognise deficiency symptoms for this and differentiate them from deficiency symptoms for other things, like the methylfolate.
Is Freddd around these days? If I got myself in trouble and was really ill, I hope I would be able to come here and get some support. It looks like there are a lot of friendly and knowledgeable folks here, though it doesn't look to me like Freddd's been active lately.
If anyone else has any advice, I'd be keen to hear it. Thanks!