Fatigue, Not A New Issue

[skp]

As I posted a few days ago, I am have had two normals now. I am still on the Stage One Diet, experimenting slowly with other foods.

Fatigue has been an ongoing issue for me since the MC started and even last spring when I went to my internist twice. He ran thyroid tests on me, all of them as I recall and both times they were normal. My mother had low thyroid so I wondered if I might. Other than fatigue, I have had no other symptoms of low thyroid. The fatigue is very frustrating as many of you know! I searched the archives and found references to magnesium and the B's and food.

I am taking:
Vitamin D 4000-5000 IU
ReMag 600 MG
B6 p5p 50
Vit B12 (inactive) 2000 mcg with calcium 95 mg and phosphorus 73 mg
Vitamin C 500
Antihistamines for my urticaria which I have taken for several years now in addition to montelukast and a Xolair injection. None of those ever caused fatigue.
1/2 banana every day for the potassium
Drink 1/2 coffee cup size mug of homemade bone broth daily

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Susan

[tex]

Read the first article in the latest Microscopic Colitis Foundation Newsletter.

http://www.microscopiccolitisfoundation ... l_2017.pdf

Tex

[skp]

Tex, thank you. It sounds like it may take a long time for me to feel I have energy again via the article. The fatigue is awful and even though I get a good nights sleep, I struggle through the day. My iron has always tested fine but I have my annual physical in June and will have it tested again along with thyroid, etc.

I have never looked at the MC Foundation newsletter and will from now on.

Susan

[tex]

You're welcome. It's typical to have fatigue with MC. I don't know if everybody has that symptom but it's a very common complaint. I know that when I was still recovering, I was almost always out of energy.

Tex

[Vanessa]

Your body is in the recovery phase and that takes a lot of its energy! Your on the right track.

[Gabes-Apg]

Fatigue has been one of the most ongoing symptom for me, for my combo of health issues it is still an issue 7 years post diagnosis.

in line with Vanessa's response, healing uses lots of energy...
how long have you been doing 600g of ReMag?

if iron levels are - the other key nutrients that help with energy
- active form of B12
- CoQ10

the other option that helped me was doing iodine level test (urine test about $65) when I fixed iodine deficiency this helped me.
do some reading about mitochondria and how to boost production etc...

hope this helps.

[skp]

Thanks Vanessa and Gabes,

I will get the active form of B12. How much should I take? My inactive is 2000 mcg as I recall.

My CoQ10 had soy and I haven't looked for a different one yet.

I have a problem with iodine. In my twenties, a doctor wanted to see how I did with it internally. She hooked me up to an IV with iodine and I started getting a rash and itching so it was discontinued. Because my GNC multiple vitamin that I had taken for years, without iron or iodine, has soy, I quit taking it and went to a compound pharmacy to get a multiple vitamin without bad additives. The only one they had has iodine in it, albeit a small amount. I took it for 2 1/2 days and had diarrhea and didn't feel good. I quit taking it and am fine again. I"d like to find a multiple without the iodine nor iron. Iron hurt my stomach years ago and I have never tested low. I do eat liver.

I'll check out mitochondria production.

Susan

[Gabes-Apg]

interesting about the iodine...

Dave Asprey (bulletproof radio) has written a book about mitochondria. and Dr Mercola is about to release a book about it.
I have been listening to quite a few podcasts about it.

when I get out of bed (rainy cool sunday morning here so I am taking it easy) I will check my active B12 dosage.

[tex]

IMO, 2,000 mcg is fine for vitamin B-12 — that's a reasonable dose for any type of B-12.

Tex