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[Bracken willowshimmer]

Hi,

Has anyone taken B6 for menopause symptoms and if so have you had success with it improving symptons?

Also how much do you take a day?

Thanks ladies xx

[Rowan]

"Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) has been reported to cause temporary neurological symptoms such as heaviness, tingling or numbness of the limbs in persons taking very large doses.  It is very important to realize that such cases are not common, and when they do occur usually result from huge doses of pyridoxine TAKEN ALONE. The B-vitamins are a team, and work best as a team. Upsetting the balance by taking a lot of just one is like devoting all your baseball practice time to your pitcher. You might get a lot of strikeouts, but if anybody hits one, you are in trouble. No one player has ever won a World Series by himself, and no single B-vitamin can do the job that the whole "team" can do. 

B-6 by itself in doses of 2,000 to 6,000 milligrams daily (that's one thousand to three thousand times the US RDA!) can produce side effects and is therefore way too much to take.  Very, very few persons report symptoms on 1,000 mg daily, and only the rarest reports go any lower.  When taken with, or as part of, a complete B-complex supplement, B-6 side effects other than a harmless deeper-colored urine are virtually unknown.
Its best taken in a  B complex supplement2

Best taken in a B complex supplement Sarahm.

excerpt from  http://www.doctoryourself.com/bvitamins.html

[Dancinggirl]

I am taking Menopace as it seems to have a good balance of vitamins for women of our age - I'm not sure whether it is helping my meno symptoms but I do feel healthier having taken them for some time along with some regular long walks and 'Mindful M'editation.  That is not say I am not considering going back on HRT  - struggling with some aspects of the meno that only HRT will fix. 
silverlady, as usual, has given excellent advice - we do need to be wary of overdoing things and upsetting the balance.  Don't forget Vitamin D and Omega oils from the immune system, heart and bones. DG x

[Maryjane]

Hi .......Dancingirl, I am sure you know but just to let you know that a lot of the vitamins irrate the bladder especially if there is a hint of IC there.

[Dancinggirl]

Thank you Maryjane, I did know that.  I've tried leaving things out like vitamins, caffeine, citrus etc.and various other things that are known to irritate and it doesn't seem to make any difference.  The local oestrogen I'm getting from the Estring is helping to a degree but not as effective as full systemic HRT. I did get episodes of burning when on full HRT but not as bad as when I came off last autumn  - then burning really kicked off even though I had started with Vagifem. I think my burning is about gravity.  I think my bladder and urethra become squashed particularly if I'm sitting down or riding my bike.   Also if I'm hot (of cause I'm flushing quite a bit these days)that seems to aggravate things.   
Seriously thinking of going back on some low dose HRT again.  DG x

[Hattie]

Dancing Girl

Sorry going off topic - just wanted to say while i read it that sitting down and especially riding a bike are factors in nerve pain down below.

Hattie

[Dancinggirl]

I know we are going off subject here but yes, having read things on the other post about nerve pain being connected to this burning, some of this does make sense.
You see,  lack of oestrogen effects connective tissue so by coming off full HRT this would result in nerves etc becoming more sensitive.  I'm definitely getting more sciatic pain as well!!!  All very interesting.  Strangely my burning is not too bad today - yesterday was horrid - there doesn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason!!!! DG x

[Hattie]

DG

It is just that cyclists are known to get nerve pain from too much pressure on the saddle area - i would hate to think that you could be making things worse for yourself if the nerves are already sensitive down there.

Sorry still off topic - will shut up now !

Hattie

[Melbury]

I am about to embark on taking vitamin B12 in quite a high dose to see if it helps with my tingling limbs as I have read such good things about it.  Didn't realize that B vitamins can cause tingling

Getting desperate

[Maryjane]

Magnesium is good for aching and tingling? ...........the B vitamins can be quite toxic if over done ........as can vitamin C not good for the bladder. Can't do right for doing wrong with all this.

[Maryjane]

Dancingirl.......yes the pain specialist I saw re nerve pain, he said unless it has been caused by other obvious things peri/meno is the time when you see all these problems, lack of hormones, pelvic floor weakens, takes bladder and nerves with it, ha presto burning nerve pain. Aching pain is muscle burning is nerves, a lot alos has to do on what we did in our younger days also, it's not what we did for one day, it's what we did day in day out for years.

Basically if we where horses, we would have been put out to pasture and then the friendly hunt man would do the deed.

On a lighter note, you can get a bike set for ladies with down below issues, the thought of sitting on any bike makes my eyes water.

[Dancinggirl]

Thanks Maryjane - all very interesting and makes sense to me.  I don't actually cycle that much. I'm very much a fair weather cyclist - I sometimes cycle to and from work which is 15 mins each way - I do enjoy cycling though and would like to do more as it's a good way to keep fit.  As I mentioned, the burning comes and goes and the local oestrogen has helped. Apart from given birth (one Caesarian and one vaginal birth) as a professional dancer I doubt there would have been any pressure on my pelvic floor, in fact my pelvic floor should have been even stronger as dance training involves pulling everything in and up.  I do find that doing pelvic floor exercises now actually make the burning worse so I tend to completely relax that area and it often relieves the pain. I don't have urinary urgency or incontinence yet and the burning doesn't make me want to pee - it's just a pain!    DG x

[Melbury]

Magnesium is good for aching and tingling? ...........the B vitamins can be quite toxic if over done ........as can vitamin C not good for the bladder. Can't do right for doing wrong with all this.

Thanks Maryjane; I have tried the Mega-Mag liquid magnesium, but not very consistently.  I find that one squirt is OK, but if I go above that I get an upset stomach


Must get back to trying one squirt every day and see if that makes any difference.