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Jimmylegs, I just wanted to thank you again and let you know that things are going SO much better! I've stuck with my vitamin regimen and pretty much all my symptoms have resolved. It turns out, I don't think it was the B vitamins that were making me so twitchy, but that GNC "Active" multi...

Holy surf and turf! Guess I'm gonna have to get me a better set of knives...

I have always been exceptionally fond of fried clams...

How much B12 do you think I should take a day to get my levels up? I had tried taking extra, but it was making me super twitchy, so I stopped. The mega vitamin I was taking a few weeks ago had 50 mcg, and that seemed to be okay, but when I went above 100, things got a little weird (initially, I trie...

Well, the good news is that the numbness is gone again! :-D That's pretty consistent with the way things have gone--after the stomach bug, it took about 2 days for the numbness to go away, too. (Although it did take about three weeks of fairly heavy supplementation to make it go away the first time)...

Thanks for the info, jimmylegs. I have to say, I'm starting to feel a little bit discouraged. I really thought the numbness going away was a good sign--now that it's back I'm having a hard time believing this all has to do with some deficiency--I mean, how deficient could I be that I'm just blasting...

Thanks for your response, FLJhawk. It's so hard to know what's going on. I'm right around the age for perimenopause (42) and these symptoms could just as easily be chalked up to that as a vitamin deficiency or MS--it's very frustrating! I'd be more adventurous with my supplements if I wasn't current...

He didn't test for zinc--maybe you're on to something! Before I went to see him, I was taking 15 mg of zinc plus 25 extra mg (like you suggested)--no numbness. After I saw him, he told me to just take my standard pre-natal (15 mg)--numbness two days later. I'm gonna go take some zinc right now and l...

Hi Jimmy--Well, I went back to my doctor and got my results. He told me that everything he's seeing is inconsistent with a B12 deficiency, but that he thinks I might have a calcium deficiency (the results were normal, but he only tested for serum calcium). He told me to start taking just a regular p...

Well, I googled the info about aspartate and it is WAY over my head, so I'll just take your word for it and switch to the Super Magnesium (not everyone, after all is a nutritional genius ).

Looks like I'm gonna have a lot of letters to write...

Thanks again for the help!

Jimmylegs, you're awesome!! It was hard to fully take in your recommendations with four little kids running around, so I waited 'til now to respond. I will definitely take all your advice and up the magnesium, potassium, and zinc. I don't quite understand what "elemental" magnesium is--is ...

Hi jimmilegs! Sorry for the delay in my response, but I lost track of the name of this site and only found it just now when I was (once again!) googling my symptoms and came across my own post! A little update: I started on a higher dose of just about everything (I'm currently taking GNC's Women's U...

Thank you both so much for your replies. My GP (who I really like and trust) also said that MS numbness is usually more constant and that, since mine seems to be "intemittent" (not to mention mobile) he wants to give it a few more weeks to see if (even though the vit. def. results were nor...

Hi Guys--I'm just wondering if the lack of response is because my symptoms seem so insignificant that they're not worth commenting on (this would be a good thing) or if everyone is just sick of people coming on here and busting into your forums with questions that, really, only a doctor could answer...

Hi Everyone--For the last month or so, I've been having some symptoms I'd like clarification on. It started with a twitch in my right hand (thumb and index finger) that lasted for about three days. Around that time, I noticed twitching in other areas and a numbness in my left index finger. As I've b...