Hello,
Im a 23 year old male. I have had a long health roller coaster the past few years. To be short im not sure how much is connected. I have been showing a lot of symptoms of b12 or atleast things that b12 deficiency might worsen. I have had a traumatic time since I had a 2nd flare up of autominflammatory myopericarditis in october(which is well managed). Since then life has been hell. I was in a constant state of fight or flight for a few months because the medicine they give you (colchicine) screws up your gut completely. They gave me pantoprazole along with it. I have never experienced such suffering in my life. It completely screwed up my gut and esophagus for months. I could do anything. Let alone it became painful to eat. During this time I started to see visual static and came to realize I have many symptoms of visual snow syndrome. Which has somewhat come to rear its ugly head progessively over the past few months. I have also been struggling with tinnitus which has been on average much higher as of late and ETD. My left ear has got quite bad that it feels muffled and the ringing is quite loud. Im getting evaluated by audilogy and ent tommorow. But I just saw them last week for the tinnitus and ear eczema! I also have presented brain fog that hampers my ability to function like I normally could. I feel like my overall sharpness is not even close to what it was. I have struggled with brainfog for years, but it seemed to be an off an on thing. Im struggling hard with retrieval errors, remembering little things I did. And it gets worse. I have always had anxiety since around my mid teens. I will say it had improved alot until my recurrent episode. The anxiety almost feels mechanical or biological. I dont know how to explain it. I wont be worried or anxious but it will make my body behave like a panic attack. I also have a symptom of my cheeks getting consistently super warm and very red in the middle in like a line. It feels like my body is dumping adrenaline into them or nerves or going crazy when it happens. My feet fall asleep really easy, and im very irritable. Im just lost and need some guidance. I dont have access to the better tests like mma or homocystein via gp. Here are some of the labs I have run.
B12-466
Serum Mag-1.9
RBC Mag-5.2 (supplement mag threonate)
Iron-75
Transferrin-270
Pottasium usually 3.5-3.6
Vitamin d-33.8 (i supplement and im very pale)
Ferritin-122.8
I have been dealing with bad gerd from the medicine along with regurgitation from my esolhagus not closing. Has gotten better on meds but am now on vonozopram which is a pottasium based ppi or something like that. I just need some guidance on what to test. MMA, Homocysteine?
Thanks a bunch