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jack daniels | 15:38 Sat 23rd Feb 2019 | ChatterBank
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Hello Abers, i've had to start a course of 6 B12 injections given every 2 days and then will be having an injection every 12 weeks thereafter. Can anyone tell me when they've started to feel any different in a good way. I seem to be so tired most of the time and they've made me feel nauseous. TIA
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I'm on B12 tablets (strong) and it took a while. Injections might speed up the process.

Besides tiredness have you any other symptoms?
It will be a few weeks before you feel the benefit but at least you're having them quickly first off, your readings must have been low. I hope you get on ok with them, can't think why you feel nauseous it will hopefully pass. I have mine every 12 weeks now and know when it should be coming up. Good luck.
I often feel nauseous. It is a side effect of VitB deficiency.

ummmm luckily I don't thank goodness, I wouldn't like that at all.
It's awful. I'd rather give birth than feel sick!!
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Thank you for your replies, there's a host of reasons (too long to explain) to why I would have it but been told mostly because of having most of my intestine removed it's more likely and a possibility in diabetics
Are you on other tablets?
That’s how they start you on B12 jabs, frequent injections for I think two weeks, to get your levels up, then once every three months.
You should start to feel the benefit fairly soon, I doubt it’s the injections making you feel nauseous but I could be wrong.
B12 is absorbed at the very end of the small intestine, the terminal ilium, just before it joins the large intestine (colon) so I would think that because you’ve had most of your intestine removed you just don’t absorb it. I have Crohn’s disease and have a similar problem, wouldn’t matter how many B12 tables I took I’d never absorb it, so I have the jabs too.
Sometimes I feel quite awful and really tired just before the next one is due, sometimes I don’t. Once your level is sorted out you’ll look back and be amazed at the difference. Good luck x
I normally feel energised in a couple of days but it’s taken over a week this time
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Thank you all
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ummmm I'm on Metformin, levothyroxine, Gliclazide, Simvastatin, amitriptyline and Liraglutide injections
I'm never moaning about taking my meds again!!
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ummmm haha lol - if I shake.....I rattle haha
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many years ago I suffered with ulcerative colitis, hence why I had a lot of my intestine removed. I had a colostomy bag for a year and then had another operation to re-join the colon & get rid of the colostomy bag

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