Amadeus....  I have friends who have abruptly stopped taking
supplements and
suffered various maladies, among them being hair loss..... You must
wean
yourself from a supplement, but you know this already......    Don't
have
info on the reuptake or uptake of B12 but am sure Todd and/or Rachel
will
have something.  This is especially curious that this happened with a
water
soluable vitamin.  You must have had it going continuously, ie, every
several hours...... Still.... why did it take eighteen days for you to
feel
these effects...????  Maybe the gums and the tiredness are not the
B12....
Maybe this was a virus......  Oliva

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From: "Amadeus Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>

> Before I had 154ng in my blood, while 200-900 ng are considered "normal".
> Well, I took 100 ug if Cobalamin, together with the intrinsic factor in
form
> of pills for about 4 weeks.
> I couldn't feel any change in my body from this, but.. wait.
>
> Now it happened that some 8 days before my vacation I stopped the
> supplementation.
> After ten days, walking around in hot Italy i felt unusual tiredness.
> And I got an inflammation of my gums. Also quite unusual for me.
>
> Then came the b12-pills to my mind. I had some with me and started to take
> them.
> Now, per accident or not, one or two days later the inflammation went away
> and i too felt some increased energy and appetite.
> cheers
>
> Amadeus
>