Posted on 06/19/2020 12:33:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
VITAMIN B12 deficiency produces a number of eerie effects on the body and the type of symptoms you may experience depend on the underlying cause. One common warning sign associated with B12 deficiency caused by pernicious anaemia is a particular sound.
Vitamin B12's impact on the body is brought into sharp relief if you become deficient in the vitamin. Vitamin B12 is a nutrient that helps keep the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy and helps make DNA, the genetic material in all cells. If the body does not get enough of the vitamin, it therefore responds in disturbing ways.
How your body responds depends largely on what is causing your B12 deficiency.
Pernicious anaemia is the most common cause of vitamin B12 deficiency in the UK.
B12 is naturally found in certain foods but pernicious anaemia inhibits your ability to absorb the vitamin from food.
This is because pernicious anaemia prevents the body from making intrinsic factor - a protein made by the stomach and needed to absorb vitamin B12 in the intestine.
There are a number of distinctive signs associated with B12 deficiency caused by pernicious anaemia.
According to the Pernicious Anaemia Society (PAS), one neurological symptom to watch out for is tinnitus.
Tinnitus is the perception of noise or ringing in the ears.
According to Mayo Clinic, tinnitus symptoms may include these types of phantom noises in your ears:
Ringing
Buzzing
Roaring
Clicking
Hissing
Humming
"The phantom noise may vary in pitch from a low roar to a high squeal, and you may hear it in one or both ears," explains the health body.
According to PAS, tinnitus is extremely common in patients with pernicious anaemia and is probably due to slight nerve damage to the brain.
Other symptoms of B12 deficiency anaemia include:
A pale yellow tinge to your skin
A sore and red tongue (glossitis)
Mouth ulcers
Pins and needles (paraesthesia)
Changes in the way that you walk and move around
Disturbed vision
Irritability
Depression
Changes in the way you think, feel and behave
A decline in your mental abilities, such as memory, understanding and judgement (dementia)
Some of these symptoms can also happen in people who have a vitamin B12 deficiency but have not developed anaemia.
How to treat it
Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia is usually treated with injections of vitamin B12.
There are two types of vitamin B12 injections:
Hydroxocobalamin
Cyanocobalamin
It is worth noting that B12 deficiency can be caused by a lack of the vitamin in your diet.
According to the NHS, you may be prescribed vitamin B12 tablets to take every day between meals if this is the case.
Yep...all of the above. When I was in third grade, I brought a sledge hammer down on an entire roll of toy gun caps...my ears rang for a day. That was my first hearing abuse.
Can Am car races, too many rock concerts (near front row) to count, lawn mower with no muffler, homemade explosives, power plants (try setting safety valves with no hearing protection or working on coal pulverizers). I blew up a Schwinn 26 inch bicycle tire by accident when filling it at the gas station. Wood shop and metal shop. Factory floors. You name it, I did it to abuse my hearing.
Turns out I DO have a Vitamin B-12 deficiency, but got it corrected with a daily supplement. Too bad it didn’t fix the tinnitus, too.
Thank Goodness that the Sony Walkman was invented too late for me or I’d probably be stone cold deaf by now.
“It’s miserable.”
It’s suicide material for some people. I have to have background noise all night long eg the TV or else I can’t sleep. It’s horrible. I can almost pinpoint the time I damaged my hearing. In about 1962 I fired a 22 handgun at a snake inside a backwoods outhouse.
I blame Blue Oyster Cult. But Zeppelin, Zappa, Yes, ELP, etc may have contributed just a bit.
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the Vit A and zinc make copper bio available, which makes iron usable. Check out The Root Protocol. Pretty simple and really effective.
He explained that what happens is that when hearing loss occurs (in the ears themselves) the special part of the brain in charge of hearing gets confused by the loss of "signal strength" (my words) and faced with that loss it "turns up the volume" which causes the ringing/hissing you hear.
Of course he was giving me the simplified "civilian" version of the explanation...the medical version,given that it involves the brain,is probably 575 pages long (I worked for years in health care and know that many of those medical textbooks weigh 25 pounds!).
The Yes concert did it for me.:)
i started taking copper with zinc because I was suddenly getting gray hair in my eyebrows after the Covid/zinc issue.
Tinnitus can be/is cause by a serious lack of magnesium.
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They won’t mention a B12 deficiency in a Doctors office. Sadly when Doctors are going through school classes on nutrition are an elective course. What I recommend when taking supplements is to get natural vitamins as opposed to synthetic. Natural vitamins can only be obtained through a licensed professional. To find one near you Duck Duck a company called Standard process and they will guide you as to where to go. Trust me those supplements do work but when selecting a Doctor it is usually a hit or a miss. If you are anywhere near Missouri I can recommend a Doctor.
I have tried all of the methods that I know of and it takes me an hour or three to relax at night until I can get the ringing out of my ears.
I suffer tinnitus. Probably from hypertension, but also rock concerts, industrial noise, gunfire, etc.
Strange thing, my hearing is perfect. I can hear multiple clocks ticking in the house, I can hear a cat walking on carpet or hardwood. BP definately makes it worse.
Oh I thought you meant clogged ear.
Yeah, the ringing..dont know what works for that
i get it sometimes
Oh that’s a long time!
Mine started with sudden hearing loss in one ear (SSNHL).
I'm in Massachusetts...Harvard Medical School...Nobel Prize winners.If it can't be cured in Boston it can't be cured.
There is a lot of truth to the article.
I’ve had Tinnitus for years and it is just horrible.
My B12 levels were fine and they were never able to determine why I got it. I woke up one morning and there it was.
I feel for anyone who has it. It is one of those things that doesn’t sound like it is too bad to have it, but it really is torture. Most people learn to live with it but it takes a long time. Hopefully they will find a cure for it someday or at least a treatment.
Dosage?
I’ve had it since the early 70’s. I was an FTG on an old tin can for three years. We were a reserve training ship (DD-778) and had to train the weekend warriors on the 5” guns. There was not a place on the ship you couldn’t hear or FEEL it.
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