Dr. M

I walked into the doctors office today and upon checking in the receptionist handed me a lab form. Blood work again... as if I wasn't completely over being a pin cushion... Anyway I met with the doctor first. When he asked me how the B12 injections were working I explained my situation to him. They most definitely made a difference, but I felt like I needed more... like one injection a week was simply not lasting long enough. I also explained that after missing the one injection due to a recent snow storm causing mass power outages, I was back to feeling absolutely exhausted, to the point I was at when I had first met him. Convienently enough the lab sheet I was greeted with was to test my B12 levels. Dr M. exlpained that by now the B12 should have stored up in my body, however from the sounds of it, it seems that the B12 is not being absorbed and that is why the injections are only making short term energy differences.

The solution = see a G.I. doctor and continue to recieve weekly B12 injections. When B12 isn't being absorbed it is a sign that there is something wrong digestively (because that is where the absorption occurs). I was referred to a G.I. doctor and was also given B12 tablets. When I start to feel the weekly injections wear off, I am to take a B12 tablet everyday until I go for the next injection.

The earliest i could get into the G.I. doctor was for the first week of December, and I do not go back to see Dr. M until January. Until then I will continue to force feed my body with B12.

B12 Injections

I have been recieveing B12 injections weekly. Though it is a bit annoying to have to drive to my doctor's office once a week to get them it has made a huge difference. After about the second injection I began to feel a huge difference in my energy level. For the first time in a really long time I felt the desire to actually go out (my friends were shocked). It hit me how terrible I had been feeling once I realized what it felt like to feel normal. However, after a few more weeks of injections I began to recognize a pattern. It felt as though the energy I had was only lasting a few days. I get the injection on Wednesday, feel energy for the weekend, but come Monday I was back to feeling tired. Not as tired as I had felt prior to the start of the injections, but nonetheless I was still feeling tired.

Unfortunately on October 29th Connecticut was slammed with a snow storm that knocked out power for over 800,000 people causing me to miss my weekly injection. It wasn't long after the missed injection that I began to feel just as exhausted as I had felt prior to the start of the injections. As I said I didn't realize how absolutely terrible I felt until I actually started to feel better... I  had the realization again once I started to feel absolutely terrible again :( I decided to put off the injection since I was going to see Dr. M for an appointment that following week.