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.