More supplements, and MS worries
May. 14th, 2009 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonI'm having to try to take it easy, after doing my best for months to run myself into the ground while in no shape to do so. The fatigue has improved somewhat--not a huge surprise. :)
I ordered in some benfotiamine, which should get around some of the higher oral dose thiamine absorption issues. Apparently, it's difficult to absorb more than about 10mg a day of oral water-soluble thiamine, and dosage starts at 100mg injected/IV for deficiency symptoms. (Yep, misremembered the desired dosage as 10mg. :/ Blaming the brain fog again.) Being rendered fat-soluble, benfotiamine gets around this. For a bottle which goes for $12.50 US, I paid £24.00 to avoid waiting a couple of weeks--argh! If this helps, and I continue taking it for more than a couple of months, I'll be ordering some from the US. First dose in this morning.
But, with any luck, Occam's razor applies here, and getting the thiamine levels back up will help the worrying MS-like symptoms. Yes, I'm still a bit worried about this, but B vitamin deficiencies will also mess with myelin, and I seem to have had multiple ones going which will do so. There's enough symptom overlap that they're sometimes misdiagnosed as MS. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't more common with people in their 30s, when MS usually shows up. (She says, with slight concern, somewhere in the middle of that age range.)
We should be able to tell if there's much improvement fairly shortly, within a week or two. *crossing fingers*
I ordered in some benfotiamine, which should get around some of the higher oral dose thiamine absorption issues. Apparently, it's difficult to absorb more than about 10mg a day of oral water-soluble thiamine, and dosage starts at 100mg injected/IV for deficiency symptoms. (Yep, misremembered the desired dosage as 10mg. :/ Blaming the brain fog again.) Being rendered fat-soluble, benfotiamine gets around this. For a bottle which goes for $12.50 US, I paid £24.00 to avoid waiting a couple of weeks--argh! If this helps, and I continue taking it for more than a couple of months, I'll be ordering some from the US. First dose in this morning.
But, with any luck, Occam's razor applies here, and getting the thiamine levels back up will help the worrying MS-like symptoms. Yes, I'm still a bit worried about this, but B vitamin deficiencies will also mess with myelin, and I seem to have had multiple ones going which will do so. There's enough symptom overlap that they're sometimes misdiagnosed as MS. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't more common with people in their 30s, when MS usually shows up. (She says, with slight concern, somewhere in the middle of that age range.)
We should be able to tell if there's much improvement fairly shortly, within a week or two. *crossing fingers*
