B12

Hi! I'm having surgery next week and purchasing my vitamins today. I'm having an issue with the B12. The suggestion was to have 500mcg once a week or a 1000 ,mcg shot once a month. When I look at the the nutritional facts almost all the sublingual are 1000 mcg with a take once a day instructions.  Isn't that too much? What do you guys take? Thanks!!!

I take a shot once a month 1cc and I take  2 iron pills a day 325mg.  My labs are perfect.
Good luck.

Susan G.

The B-12 injection is super easy (I used to give them to my husband) and the medication should be covered by your prescription plan.  I am not a medical professional but from what I have heard it is pretty difficult to overdose on B-12.  B-12 is a water soluable vitamin so according to what I have read  the excess is excreted in one's urine.

Red

 I do the shot once a month too.  It is not hard to do at all and it is easier to take the load off my daily vitamins that has to go into my mouth..haha!  Super simple, I am giving myself the shots once a month.  The needle is super small and all you have to do is pinch up the fattiest place on your body and insert the needle once you make sure no air bubbles are in it and it's over in a jiff.  

I take the sublingual once a day.  Also, make sure you take that Vitamin D.  I wasn't doing it because my calcium levels were so high when my blood work would come back. Now my vitamin D level is 12 and it should be around 40.  I have to take 500,000iu of vitamin D twice a week.

Do the B12 injection once a month.  It's real easy, I give myself and my fiance our shots, in the upper leg; five minutes once a month and it's all good.  B12 injectable is also very cheap.  It doesn't matter if you take the pills or the injection, you can't hurt yourself with too much B12, what your body doesn't need it just eliminates, you can't O.D. on it.

Good luck with our surgery.