Should I be worried?!?!

radze09
on 11/24/15 9:22 pm
RNY on 06/08/15

I just had my six month labs done, a bit early since I don't see the doc till Dec. 8, but he wanted them done two to three weeks before seeing him. Any who....my b12 is greater then 2000. Regular values are like 200 to 800. Should I be concerned?? What I see online says it's water soluble so my oral dose each day will just "wash out" if my body doesn't need it. A bit freaked out here!! A couple other values are a little high, like just above the upper limit and then I see the b12 and it is like WOW!

    

Ladytazz
on 11/24/15 10:35 pm

I was told not to worry about it.  My doctor told me I could cut back on my b12 but it isn't harmful to be that high.

WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010

High Weight  (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.

selhard
on 11/25/15 3:59 am - MN
RNY on 11/26/12

My first couple B12 labs were over 1000 so I adjusted my sublingual dose to every other day.  At 3 years out, my last month's B12 was 1966 with a reference range 218-816 pg/ml.  I don't plan to readjust because no medical staff has expressed concern to do so.

H.A.L.A B.
on 11/25/15 5:41 am

Anything too much is not good. Balance. 

If you take every day - try taking every other day, or limit the dose to 1/2 of what you take. 

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

Laura in Texas
on 11/25/15 5:55 am

I agree with Hala. I would not worry, but I would cut back a little and see how your labs are next time. Many of us, myself included, like to keep our levels a little high, around 1000, but there is no reason to let it stay above 2000.

Laura in Texas

53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)

RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis

brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco

"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."

radze09
on 11/25/15 8:15 am
RNY on 06/08/15

OK, good! What I read online is talking about liver cancer or blood cancer so it scared me for a bit! Thanks for helping, makes me feel way better about it. I will have to adjust it with the doc so it isn't so high. Again, thank you guys!!

    

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