Complications

So I went to the doctor the other day and they decided to check my blood work and do a UA. Well I got a call from them on Friday saying "we got your blood work back and your b12 is low we need you to call the doctor first thing Monday morning(they called late on Friday) and come in." I didn't know much about b12 deficiency so I looked it up. I found out that gastric bypass people get this a lot and vegans, since we get b12 from animal products. here are a list of symptoms:

1. Itchy or tingling tongue. The tongue suddenly itches from time to time without warning. This occurs on the edge of the tongue, along one side or the other or at the tip. Some individuals experience stinging, pain, or tingling instead of itching.

2. White spots in the skin, resulting from melanin becoming absent in the area. These often occur on the outside of the forearm, but may occur in other places. The longer these spots are there, the whiter they get. As time goes by, the spots become very dry and flaky to the extent that small raw spots of skin may be exposed.

3. Sharp stabbing, tingling pain in the palm of one or both hands. This occurs suddenly and for no apparent reason in a spot directly below the ring finger, approximately where the first palm crease is. If B12 deficiency is not treated, a tingling pain may begin to occur along the outside edge of the hand, starting from the wrist. This pain occurs when the wrist is extended.

4. Sores at the corners of the mouth, sometimes extending along the edge of the lip. These are raw spots, not blisters, and they tend to come and go.

5. Nerve shock in the side of the body. It can be felt coming on a few seconds before it hits, and then it hits almost like a mild but deep electric shock and quickly subsides. It can occur at the side of either hip or on either side of the upper body, along the ribs. It can occur consecutively in at least two or three locations, one right after the other.

6. Shortness of breath, but without chest pain. This can occur when walking just a few yards.

7. Eye twitch, usually in one eye or the other. It can occur on the eyelid or just below the eye.

8. Facial pain, usually on only one side of the face at a time. This pain varies so much that it would be difficult to describe all the possibilities. This can present as a dull pain in the cheek bone right underneath an eye, or a sharp shooting pain across the forehead, sometimes coming downward from the scalp to the edge of the nose by the eye.

9. Tingling along the back of one or both thighs, starting at the hips and shooting downward.

10. Memory loss and/or disorientation.

11. Migraine headaches. These may be preceded by a temporary blind spot in the center of the field of vision, usually lasting about ten minutes, and sometimes followed by facial pain under the eyes. After the blind spot vanishes, there may be zigzag streaks through the vision that may last up to hours. Even in the same person, there may be extreme variations in the headaches themselves. They may be quite severe with nausea or they may be virtually nonexistent.

Migraines of most individuals have causes other than B12 deficiency, but migraines of certain individuals diminish or stop completely after they are treated for B12 deficiency.

12. Irritability and/or depression and/or personality changes.

That was a list of symptoms from wikipedia. Other symptoms I've heard of are poor balance, lightheadedness, mania, and confusion.

now here is a list of symptoms I've noticed.
-confusion
-nerve shock
-blind spots
-memory loss
-fatigue
-muscle weakness
-irritability
-my depression came back
-poor balance
-lightheadedness
-mania

now these are all things that I've noticed in the last few months but kind of dismissed. I figured oh I'm just tired and weak because of the weight loss but when you think about it I should be getting back my energy by now! and my memory loss has gotten sooooo severe that it really has started to scare me, the other day at work I went to run a cart of clothes and after running my first handful I got confused and forgot what I was doing and where I put my cart(even though our store is tiny!). I hope that with treatment my memory will come back and I will finally have some energy.

so you may already know the treatment, SHOTS!!!!! ahhhhhhh I hate needles! this is horrible. hahahaha I'm hoping that my deficiency isn't that bad so I will only need one or two shots, but I've heard that some people have to take shots for the rest of their life. lets hope mine is really mild but with my symptoms I don't know. I will update all of you once I talk to my doctor on Monday.

P.S. I'm sooooooo close to onederland that I can taste it! only 9lbs!!!!! and I only have 38lbs until I reach my goal. I can't believe that I'm so close. this is insane seriously! I haven't been in onederland since I was 11 or 12!