Hi been advised by a friend with type 2 to take vitamin B12 as a precaution to prevent serious side effects to the Metformin. I googled it and wish I didn’t but it seemed to suggest the treatment for this would be B12 injections not a tablet, so I’m interested what you guys think because if the treatment is injections then why take the pills
Edit to add movie link
HERE
I only found out a good while after being DX as T2D, about the dangers of B12 depletion thanks to the forum.
It is actually on the leaflet inside the Metformin packet that it's a risk ....but I hadn't bothered to read it ..
Anyway, I asked to be tested,
Result came back
Range is around 200-900..and I was pulling 243.
Began supplementing with tablets
(Sub lingual recommended as it bypasses stomach acids)
( Do vaguely remember reading this version offers similar benefits to the injections ?...but I'd have to Google that for a source
Link
here suggests not
But it does have a lot of other information about B12 )
My latest scores was mid 400.
Did have serious accident, where eating LCHF was interrupted for over a year as I recovered, so can't say for certain the supplemental B12 was definitely the reason, but I'd rather have tried it then risk the consequences.
I read B12 depletion is also normal as we age, 60 I think being the age decline increases.
I now consider finding out about it a lucky bonus, as with T2D on Metformin I can request a test each year to monitor mine.
There's a link under my signature of a B movie about how low B12 can be misdiagnosed as other ailments & it's impact.
Worth a watch (think murder she wrote ) and very informative
True story to boot, of a nurse who spotted the real condition affecting each patient.