Hi Ladies,
I have most of the symptoms - numbness and tingling in hands and feet , exhaustion, nerve pain, lethergy , and breathlessness etc.
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The NHS website states that :
A particular drawback of testing vitamin B12 levels is that the current widely used blood test only measures the total amount of vitamin B12 in your blood.
This means it measures forms of vitamin B12 that are "active" and can be used by your body, as well as the "inactive" forms, which cannot.
If a significant amount of the vitamin B12 in your blood is inactive, a blood test may show that you have normal B12 levels, even though your body cannot use much of it.
There are some types of blood test that may help determine if the vitamin B12 in your blood can be used by your body, but these are not yet widely available.
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So therefore this renders my Gp's blood test inaccurate for B12. I have already been tested for iron and I know that it is low. Although within normal range for the NHS . I wonder if my nerve issues could be related to this.
I suspect that most ladies are deficient in something later in life - I was in vit D too, but now take a suppliment.
So I am wondering how do I get tested for B12 fully etc.
Or do I just go out and get some tablets and hope for the best?
Do more of us have it and don't know?
Is it a piece of our puzzle?
Peppermintyxx