{"id":25026,"date":"2021-02-22T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=25026"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:48:52","slug":"six-commonly-missed-diagnoses-b12-deficiency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/six-commonly-missed-diagnoses-b12-deficiency-2","title":{"rendered":"Six Commonly Missed Diagnoses: B12 Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019re pretty sure you know your body and you tell your doctor you\u2019re just not feeling right. You\u2019re tired, maybe a little depressed, a bit achy. Maybe your digestion is \u201coff.\u201d The list of foods you can\u2019t seem to enjoy is definitely longer. Your doctor\u2019s empathic, not at all dismissive of your symptoms, but after a physical exam and some apparently appropriate tests she can\u2019t find anything really wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the surface, this is reassuring. After all, the main reason we do go to doctors is to ascertain that <em>nothing serious <\/em>is going on. Still, could she be overlooking something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After decades of treating patients with longstanding but undiagnosed chronic symptoms, here\u2019s the first of six overlooked diagnoses I see most frequently in our patients at WholeHealth Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>B12 Deficiency<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the eight B vitamins, B-12 is involved in the metabolism of every cell in your body. Years ago B-12 was called \u201cmaturation factor\u201d because cells need B-12 to mature from being young and ineffectual whippersnappers to fully functioning and mature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/b12-deficiency-still-americas-1-missed-diagnosis-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B-12 deficiencies<\/a> affect three major systems in your body: your blood, nervous system, and, less often, gastrointestinal tract. These three are targets because their cells either have a high turnover rate (blood and intestinal lining) or need a lot of B-12 to function smoothly (nervous system). The symptoms of low B-12 levels are related to each of these areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><u>Effects of B12 Deficiency on your blood<\/u> is a specific type of anemia called megaloblastic anemia (as distinct from the more common iron deficiency anemia). A megaloblast is an immature, undeveloped red blood cell, large and bulky (megalo=large, blast=immature form). Remember, B-12 is needed for this cell to mature, so with insufficient B-12 megaloblasts accumulate in your blood. Symptoms are the same as for anemia from any cause, including fatigue, breathlessness, and lightheadedness. Your skin becomes a pale yellow, most likely because the red cells that do make it to maturity are very fragile and easily broken, releasing their yellow bilirubin pigment.<\/li><li><u>In your nervous system<\/u>, B12 deficiency causes symptoms affecting your nerves (numbness, tingling, tremors, balance problems) and your mind (depression, brain fog, mood swings, and, in rare cases, hallucinations and psychosis).<\/li><li><u>In your gastrointestinal tract<\/u>, you might experience digestive symptoms and weight loss because you\u2019re not absorbing food efficiently.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony is that with each of these there\u2019s usually just one predominant symptom, and making a connection to low B-12 can easily be delayed until other symptoms start to appear. For example, if your only symptom is tingling in your hands, you might undergo all sorts of diagnostic tests before your doctor thinks \u201cMaybe we should check her B-12 level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What causes B-12 deficiency?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of causes is lengthy, but by far the most common culprit is nutritional. Vegetarians who aren\u2019t paying attention to the B-12 in their food choices will have downward-drifting B-12 levels, and virtually all vegans not taking vitamin B-12 supplements ultimately develop deficiencies. Even vegan organizations acknowledge it\u2019s not possible to get adequate B-12 while following a strictly vegan diet, and that\u2019s because the richest sources are animal products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other causes of B12 deficiency include pernicious anemia, an uncommon (and spookily named) autoimmune disease that destroys parietal stomach cells. These cells produce a substance called intrinsic factor, necessary for B-12 absorption. Also, since you need stomach acid to absorb B-12, long-term use of acid-suppressing proton pump inhibitors (Nexium, etc.) can lead to B12 deficiency, as can chronic intestinal conditions like Crohn\u2019s disease, celiac disease, and intestinal parasites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The missed diagnosis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The main danger of not getting a B12 deficiency diagnosis is that (while quite rare) the damage to your nerves and even brain can be permanent. Other serious consequences: your anemia can get so severe it causes heart failure and collapse. Or you could be misdiagnosed with a major depressive disorder or even psychosis and end up taking unneeded psychiatric medications for months (or years) before someone notices you look yellow-ish and you\u2019re finally diagnosed with megaloblastic anemia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><u>There are four reasons why this diagnosis is missed by doctors:<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Although it\u2019s not an expensive test, B-12 isn\u2019t measured during routine blood tests. Doctors generally don\u2019t order a B-12 evaluation if there\u2019s no evidence of anemia (which would be picked up on a routine blood test). However, the nervous system and GI symptoms and the fatigue can precede any anemia by months.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Most doctors rarely ask (and patients rarely volunteer) information about their eating habits. In medical school, we\u2019re taught that the US diet is \u201cplenty good enough to prevent any vitamin deficiencies.\u201d To which I now respond, \u201cHa!\u201d It\u2019s true most of us eat plenty of food (obesity levels have skyrocketed), but it\u2019s often foods whose nutritional value has been stripped away. Also, all vegetarians and vegans should be regularly tested for possible B-12 deficiency, but if your doc doesn\u2019t know your eating habits that won\u2019t happen.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Like many blood tests, there\u2019s considerable disagreement about normal levels of B-12. Most labs test B-12 levels between 200 pg\/ml (picograms per milliliter) and 800 pg\/ml. Someone at 250 pg\/ml would be classified as normal, but symptoms can start appearing at 350 pg\/ml. In Japan, normal B-12 was recently raised to 500 pg\/ml and higher. We see this type of erroneous overreliance on normal ranges in other frequently missed diagnoses, like hypothyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, gluten intolerance, adrenal fatigue.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Taking the B vitamin folic acid (folate) or eating a plenty of folate-containing foods (<a href=\"http:\/\/whfoods.org\/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&amp;dbid=63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">click here and scroll down<\/a> for a listing of excellent sources) without adding B-12 can actually mask the symptoms of a developing B-12 deficiency. Although folate will keep your blood count normal even if your B-12 is falling, the folate will not protect your brain and nervous system. You\u2019ll have no evidence of megaloblastic anemia (because of the folate), but your symptoms of numbness, tingling, balance problems, and emotional issues will continue unchecked. By eating so many folate-containing beans, lentils, and green vegetables, vegetarians and vegans can inadvertently mask their own slowly developing B-12 deficiency.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Treatment is easy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s virtually impossible to take too much B-12 as any excess of this water-soluble vitamin is eliminated via urine. Nutritional guru Alan Gaby, MD, has commented that the only way too much B-12 will kill you is if you fill your bathtub with it and drown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foods high in B-12 are animal products: meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, and eggs, with eggs having the least. Because all animals store B-12 in their livers, eating liver is an excellent (though not particularly popular) treatment for B-12 deficiency. Your grandmother or great-grandmother likely remembers a time when her doctor told someone in the family to eat more liver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since people with low B-12 are likely to also have GI symptoms that interfere with B-12 absorption, the best way to quickly increase (and maintain) B-12 levels is with B-12 injections. Thereafter, any form of B-12 taken by mouth is fine. There\u2019s actually little difference among tablets, liquids, lozenges, or mouth sprays. For maintenance, <a href=\"https:\/\/whcstore.vitogenix.com\/s\/search?q=b-supreme-120caps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a good B-complex is excellent<\/a>, but for a deficiency your source should be pure B-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my own practice, a deficient patient receives a series of four B-12 injections<br>(or four B-12-containing <a href=\"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/services\/infusion-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meyer\u2019s Cocktails<\/a>) and also starts and maintains herself on a daily B-12 chewable tablet. Usually within a month her levels are back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think a B12 deficiency might be an issue, schedule with any of our practitioners and get tested ASAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s more to come in our Commonly Missed Diagnoses series. Next week: overlooked diagnosis #2, vitamin D deficiency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be well,<br><em>David Edelberg, MD<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re pretty sure you know your body and you tell your doctor you\u2019re just not feeling right. You\u2019re tired, maybe a little depressed, a bit achy. Maybe your digestion is \u201coff.\u201d The list of foods you can\u2019t seem to enjoy is definitely longer. 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