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15/11/2025

These comments are heartbreaking 😢

Delayed B12 treatment leads to nerve damage in eyes and spine

24 March 2023
https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/
The case
B12 is a nutrient the human body needs to make red blood cells, keep nerves healthy and create DNA. Unless you’re deficient, it’s not something you’d think about and normally, a deficiency is easily treatable. However, in Charlotte Heywood’s case it wasn’t that simple, and a delayed diagnosis and treatment resulted in devastating effects that have affected the rest of her life.

Having a lack of B12 in the body can cause a variety of symptoms;

Rapid breathing or shortness of breath
Headaches
Palpitations
Problems with your vision
Feeling weak or tired
A sore or red tongue, sometimes with mouth ulcers
Problems with memory, understanding and judgment (cognitive changes)
Numbness
Muscle weakness
Problems with balance and coordination
When Charlotte began noticing how tired she felt and a tight pain in her ankles, she went to the doctors. After a couple of appointments and a blood test, she was told she was slightly low in B12. After being prescribed with a month-long course of tablets, she was sent away.

However, instead of getting better, she continued to get worse, citing exhaustion as a massive symptom as well as severe ankle and leg pain. The doctors Charlotte saw insisted the pain was caused by her anxiety and depression, despite sleeping 20 hours a day and losing four stone in eight weeks. It wasn’t until a routine doctor's appointment on a separate issue, when they noticed the dramatic changes, that they told Charlotte she needed to urgently see a neurologist. Though initially the neurologist didn’t believe there was anything neurologically wrong with Charlotte, she ran multiple tests. The results led her to be referred for further tests including an MRI, lumbar puncture and several blood tests for the results to come back saying Charlotte was B12 deficient.

What was an easily treatable diagnosis consisting of monthly injections, has caused detrimental effects to Charlotte. The delayed treatment caused irreversible damage to her spinal and optic nerves, which means she has difficulty walking due to severe numbness, hypersensitivity and pain in her lower back and impaired vision. Though Charlotte now gets treatment for low B12, it won’t reverse the damage that has already been done and she will spend the rest of her life navigating life with disabilities.
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15/11/2025

So many people are told their levels are “in range,” but as this report shows, that often isn’t the case. If you’re still experiencing symptoms but keep being told your results are normal, feel free to get in touch — we’re here to help.

Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM

Low Vitamin B12: The Hidden Cause Behind Fatigue, Tingling, and Memory Problems

Most people get their “Vitamin B12 test” done and feel reassured when it looks normal.

▶️But here’s the catch:
1. Most of that B12 in your blood is inactive, bound to a protein your body can’t actually use.
2. What really matters is the active form, called Holotranscobalamin. This is the B12 your brain and nerves can actually access.
3. In many people, especially older adults, vegetarians, or those on long-term acidity medicines or metformin, B12 deficiency can go undetected for years, even with “normal” blood reports.

✅Better tests exist:
1. Holotranscobalamin (Active B12): Detects deficiency early
2. Methylmalonic acid (MMA): Shows if B12-dependent metabolism is impaired

▶️If you suffer from persistent fatigue, poor concentration, numbness, or mood changes; ask your doctor if your B12 is truly active; not just “normal.”

04/11/2025

Sally Pacholok the Movie First Do No Harm: rise matches timeline adding (synthetic folate) to womb w/out regard Deranged One Carbon Metabolism?

03/11/2025

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🔴Drug induced vitamin B12 deficiency by pharmafactz.

23/09/2025

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The 23rd is almost here.

19/08/2025

After years of fatigue, brain fog and countless GP appointments, one woman finally got the diagnosis she needed

Katrina Burchell opens up about her fears of having dementia for years ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/nutrition/vitamin-b12-deficiency/

14/08/2025

Is it a small world or a world with many B12 patients not receiving the correct treatment. ? The man that fit my new meter today told me about his wife, she was on regular B12 injections or ''regular for NHS standards.'' The surgery made some changes & she was put on ''tablets,'' not long after that, she lost her balance, fell & broke her hip. 😥 If this is some kind of cost cutting exercise from NHS, then think again.

07/08/2025

Amazing Article, highlighting how low B12 can affect children and babies but also how important screening for low B12 would be to ladies trying to conceive. Please let’s raise awareness and share this article 🙏🏻

31/07/2025

Sally Pacholok
Studies now proving what we describe & advocate in “Could It Be B12—Pediatric Edition.”
Vitamin B12 for pregnant women may boost offspring’s cognitive abilities.
Giving women vitamin B12 supplements during pregnancy and in the weeks immediately after birth may improve cognitive development in their children, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and India’s St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences.
The study, published online on July 12, 2018 in Maternal and Child Health Journal, followed 218 children born to mothers in India who were enrolled in a randomized trial. The findings showed that 30 months after birth, children of mothers who received oral vitamin B12 supplementation scored significantly higher on expressive language tests when compared with children whose mothers were given a placebo.
Several of the study’s authors previously collaborated on a research project that assessed the associations between maternal and infant vitamin B12 status. Those findings were published in 2017 in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Harvard Chan authors included Ronald Bosch, David Bellinger, and Christopher Duggan.

27/07/2025

Sally Packolok keynoting at the UK B12 Deficiency campaign conference, alongside Umahro Cadogan, an expert in nutrition, functional medicine, and others. Organised by Tracey Witty and held at Loughborough University, the conference was aimed at both health professionals and patients.
B12.
Vitamin B12 or cobalamin is essential for the development and maintenance of a healthy brain and nervous system. It’s necessary for red blood cell production and for DNA synthesis, being key for methylation and the metabolism of folate, homocysteine, and methylmalonyl coenzyme A. B12 is only found in foods of animal origin, i.e. meat, fish, shellfish, poultry, dairy products, and eggs. Vegans and vegetarians require additional B12 supplements to avoid deficiency symptoms. The absorption of B12 is a complex process involving numerous organs, co factors and biochemical steps. In brief, vitamin B12 binding protein is produced by the salivary glands and stomach parietal cells. Hydrochloric acid and pepsin begin the breakdown in the stomach with pancreatic enzymes and intrinsic factor, produced by the parietal cells, then acting on the released B12 in the small intestine. Receptors in the distal ileum (end of the small intestine) are also involved in absorption. Once in the blood, specific proteins (transcobalamin 2) shunt the active B12 to cells and organs. Problems at any of these steps can lead to malabsorption and subsequent deficiency. Yet deficiency of B12 is still poorly recognised by mainstream medicine.
Avoiding B12 deficiency
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tell us ‘Research studies and clinical laboratories have tended to dichotomize low values [serum B12 levels] at 200 picograms per milliliter (pg/mL)”). They warn that “Accepted lower limits of serum B12 levels in adults range between 170 and 250 pg/ml; however, higher levels (but less than 350 pg/ml) have been recorded in 15% of ostensibly healthy elderly patients with other findings suggestive of a deficiency state… the true lower limits of normal serum B12 would therefore appear to be somewhat poorly defined”. Sally Pacholok stressed that on both sides of the Atlantic mainstream clinicians are using too low reference ranges and missing many deficiency cases.
In the UK, B12 serum levels are measured in nanograms per litre (ng/L) with reference ranges starting as low as