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BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???

01 Apr 09 - 06:45 PM (#2602646)
Subject: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Okay, I was havin' some mumbing in one of my fingers and went to see the doc... Okay, it wasn't the doc but two young 'n pretty nurse practioners and they ordered up some blood work and I got word while I was on the road that I need to get weekly B-12 shots for the next month and then get 'um once a month... I was driving a bigass truck on windy mountain roads when they called and so I din't really get the full scope of what is what...

So...

...what is what??? Someone in Mudville knows...

I heard that these shots is like speed??? Is that right??? I don't like speed... Did it once and hated it... Up for two days and then crashed for another two...

So what's the deal with B-12???

B~


01 Apr 09 - 06:55 PM (#2602656)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Sorcha

They HURT going in is all I know


01 Apr 09 - 07:33 PM (#2602682)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Don't tell me THAT!!!


01 Apr 09 - 08:12 PM (#2602698)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Jack Campin

It means your gut isn't absorbing B-12, so taking it orally won't get it into your system.

B-12 deficiency causes progressive, irreversible nervous system damage. Don't mess about with it. It's easy to treat.

Look up "pernicious anaemia".


01 Apr 09 - 08:19 PM (#2602702)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: GUEST,mg

I must be doing something right because I am off the charts when it comes to B12...sky high rates above the maximum. Might not be good in fact. I do eat red meat daily, yes daily. (Except on Friday). mg


01 Apr 09 - 08:33 PM (#2602705)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

I don't eat no red meat... No pork either...

Maybe I just need a Big Mac???...lol...

Thanks, Jack... I'll do that... I like "easy to treat"...

B~


01 Apr 09 - 09:31 PM (#2602727)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: wysiwyg

Low B-12 can also lead to suppressed appetite and debilitation.

~S~


01 Apr 09 - 09:51 PM (#2602738)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rapparee

Yeah, don't mess with that. A little pain isn't worth the problems you're gonna have if you don't get the shots.

Like without the shots you could get the trots, the flamin' swampies, clap, syph, snoo, yaws, rickets, hemorrhoids, pimples on yer backside, and...well, I knew one guy who had that deficiency and ended up with a problem even Viagra couldn't fix. Poor guy ended up down in the Delta singing the Blues outside a cheap juke joint, unable to afford even a cheap joint.

Just get the damn shots, will ya?


01 Apr 09 - 10:46 PM (#2602756)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rabbi-Sol

I took them regularly and they were very helpful. They did not hurt at all. Vitamin B12 does not act like a stimulant as does caffiene or steroids. It gives you the strength that you would normally have if you did not have the defficiency. In my case it cured my anemia.
If your doctor says take it heed his or her advice and you will be better off for it.


02 Apr 09 - 05:34 AM (#2602897)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Noreen

B12 deficiency -nhs online

Sounds like the injections will do the job, Bobert. Feel better!


02 Apr 09 - 07:00 AM (#2602931)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Well, ain't never been take the shoys verses don't take the shots... I reckon if I need the sumabiches then I need 'um...

Iwas just looking fir some folks expefriences with takling 'um...

Now that I'm back from my working trip I'll call the doc an' get in there as soon as they want to see me...

Ya' know, I have been a little more tired of late but not to the point that Rap is talkin' about 'cause...

I'm young and able
to buzz all night long
Yeah, I'm young and able
to buzz all night long
If you hear me buzzin', baby
there's so stingin' goin' on

(lol, BOberdz...)

B~


02 Apr 09 - 07:01 AM (#2602933)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: wysiwyg

They'll make you a King Bee.

~S~


02 Apr 09 - 07:41 AM (#2602958)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Ahhhhh, hey doc, make that a double, will ya???

B;~)


02 Apr 09 - 09:14 AM (#2603040)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rapparee

My momma had to take them, gave 'em to herself. Helped her have three more kids (unnecessary, since she already had me, but I consider 'em spare parts).

So go git shot, but be careful you don't end up pregnant like my momma did.


02 Apr 09 - 09:33 AM (#2603057)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Pauline L

Jack Campin is right. You'd better do what the doctor said.


03 Apr 09 - 12:54 AM (#2603686)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: MAG

An exboyfriend had to take them; apparently because of his excessive alcohol consumption (not that I'd think that of you, Bobert) --

Apparently the beginning symptoms of beri-beri ---


03 Apr 09 - 04:51 AM (#2603738)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: nickp

My wife gets them every 12 weeks (pernicious an...an...an... that what was mentioned above!) and when she gets to about 9 or 10 weeks she starts getting more and more tired. Soon makes a difference. Yeah, if that's what the doc says then go for it.


03 Apr 09 - 07:46 AM (#2603797)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Excessive alcohol consumption??? What's that???...lol...

Well, me and Tom T. Hall do like our beer...

One of the other reasons/causes is not eating meat so...

...looks as if the combination of the Natie Lites with my BigMac-less diet caught up with me...

I'm going to make the appointment today... Maybe even get the first shot today...

My harp player got the shots and said he couldn't get to sleep for two days so I'm lookin' over the P-Vine's "honey-do" list for things to keep me buzy if that happens to me...lol..

B~


03 Apr 09 - 10:01 AM (#2603894)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: wysiwyg

Beans, my boy. More beans. Shots, but then beans for maintenance.

~S~


03 Apr 09 - 10:02 AM (#2603895)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: olddude

I knew a guy who didn't take em and his putter fell off right in the urinal so it best that you get the shots BOMeister!!


03 Apr 09 - 01:54 PM (#2604028)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rapparee

And if that happens urinal sorts of trouble.


03 Apr 09 - 05:25 PM (#2604162)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

I got the 1st shot today...

No big deal...

Hey, o-dud... Did that really happen 'er ya' pullin' my, ahhhhh...

B;~)


03 Apr 09 - 08:35 PM (#2604259)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: catspaw49

Another solution for failure of B-12 not to breakdown in the stomach is to use sub-lingual B-12(that means you dissolve it under your tongue Dumbass). Its the most common method of supplementing B-12 in bariactric patients. Not very expensive and easy to use. One of THESE per day will supply a shitload more than your scrawny ass will ever need............So unless you like shots...............

Spaw


03 Apr 09 - 08:37 PM (#2604261)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rapparee

Shots of JD? Shots of vodka? Be specific, man!


03 Apr 09 - 08:48 PM (#2604268)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

Hey, I ain't gettin do shots for VD... Had 'um an' they ain't fun... The VD ain't either...

Yo, Spawz... That stuff work??? If so, how comes the doctor is having me take these shots, huh??? Actually, the P-Vine had me takin' about 20 pills a day and that was too many... Made me half sick so I quit 'um all about 9 months ago 'cause they gave me a bad case of the poops...

Once that little situation got correctorcated I figured that I'd just stay off pills 'cept baby asprin and reflux pill...

Now I got this... The P-Vine, of course, is ready to put me back on the 20 pills a day regiment... Which will give me the poops again...

This is some messed up stuff...

If the B-12 pills id cool then I'd take them rather than gettin' shots but fir now, it's the shots...

Maybe all this stuff will make more sense down the road...

B~


03 Apr 09 - 08:59 PM (#2604279)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Rapparee

Bobert, I'm so sorry you've been shot. Irate husband?


03 Apr 09 - 09:11 PM (#2604286)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Genie

Trader Joe's sells sublingual B-12 for a very reasonable price.   I use it all the time when I've had more'n one beer or one glass of wine in a day (which has been known to happen).

As for the shots, DK if I could get Kaiser to prescribe 'em for me, but they sound like a great idea.

Genie


03 Apr 09 - 09:44 PM (#2604300)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: catspaw49

One pill a day is more than you'll need of the type I linked. Karen takes them as she had bariactric surgery a few years ago. I'm not pulling your cahin and to be truthful, I'm surprised your doctor didn't suggest it. Its not some health nut/wacko medicine thing Bobertz......Real MD's like bariactric surgeons suggest them first.

Spaw


03 Apr 09 - 10:33 PM (#2604316)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: bobad

"I'm surprised your doctor didn't suggest it."

Someone gets paid for giving the shot.


04 Apr 09 - 12:05 AM (#2604347)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: GUEST,Gargoyle

There is something much more wrong - than right with your intestinal tract.

If you do get it right soon...it is gone FOREVER.

Consider LIVE bacilicus in ALL its yogurt forms...it sets up a colony in your intestines that help generate B-12. (Did you take antibiotics in the past five years? They destroy ALL intestinal flora)

Do you drink alcohol? (Frick - you are a man - in a folksong forum - you drink to sanity) Unless you drink the dregs of true ale - your body is robbed of the B vitamins that are contained in the yeasty-beasty)

Fix Your Gut ! Drink bacteria (No Joke)

In exteams your condition was once fatal...(if your condition was correctly diagnoised)

Until then take the V-12's - OR their historical alternatives:

Raw Hamberger - ingested by a healthy volonteer and then (one hour later) vomited forth from their healthy gut and re-consumed into yours. Continue until your health is restored.

Raw Beef Liver - Intact or pureed into a "smoothie" - 8 oz / 3 X per day

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

I do not know if dissicated (dried) liver will work - but could not get it past the nose without gagging.

members of my family knowing the robust health and life-story of the offering beast's sacrificial liver consumed it in long 9 inch strips - much as a bird swallows a worm. NO LIE - This is truth

Injections are a temporary OK.


04 Apr 09 - 07:17 AM (#2604432)
Subject: RE: BS: Ahhhh, Vitamin B-12 Injections???
From: Bobert

I made a deal with four legged creatures 40 years ago... If they don't chew on me then I won't chew on them... So far it's worked okay so if eating them critters is what yer talkin' about, it ain't gonna happen... I'll eat B-12 pills by the handfull first...

As fir my innards, they workin' purdy good since I took myself off Dr. P-Vine's regiment of 20 pills a day... She reads all these snake oil magazines and buys everything that some Dr. (haha) says will do this 'r that fir ya... It's amazing how many pills a day she takes and none of them are perscription... I mean, it's like 30, 40... I donno... I'd hate to think how much they all cost us but I know there ain't never no money for that cool geetar that I just saw at Picker's Supply???

Nevermind... I think that shot has kicked in and I'm a'roarin' to get this day on...

I'm young and able
to buzz all night long
Yeah, I'm young and able
to buzz all night long
If ya' hear me buzzin', baby
there's some stingin' goin' on

B~