Vitamin B-12....sublingual or shots?

What are your thoughts? Why did you choose to take it the way that you take it?  Has anyone started one way and switched?

I am taking them sublingually.  I actually quite like the way they taste and it's way more convenient than going in for a shot every month.  But I'm concerned about lack of absorption. 

In most patients, there is no better absorption between shots and sublinguals.

However, you must use your labs as your guide as not everyone responds the same as a study suggests.


Many of the grads, however, find shots to be cheaper as they give them to themselves.

What she said, exactly.

If our docs won't write the rx for weekly shots, most of us have ways to get the B12 elsewhere and still do shots weekly.

Labs tell the tale.

Even without insurance, it's still cheaper to do shots. Something like $20 yr, depending on how well you shop for syringes and stuff.

Shots, if insurance will cover.  No pain and easy on the 15th of each month

I started out with sublinguals but they made me nauseous.  I switched to the patch and that seemed to work well for a while but then my B12 dropped so I switched to shots.  Personally, I find shots most convenient.  Costs me about $1.25 per shot and I don't go in every month for my shot, I do them myself at home.  But that's just a matter of personal preference.

Sublinguals absorb well enough, at least for most people.  If that's what you prefer, that's what you should use, unless your labs indicate it's not working well enough for you.

Kelly

 Thanks all.  I haven't had labs yet, but will be getting them this week.  I wanted to get y'all's perspective before meeting with my doctor.

Get a copy of the lab report for your records.  For B12, you want yours to be about 1000.  The lab report will list the normal range as something like 211-911, but that's too low.  Below 550, people get symptoms like depression and fatigue.  Below 400, people get permanent nerve damage.

Kelly

I hate shots. I take vita4min b12 sublingual tablets from vita4life. They offer the vitamin b12 in methycobalamin form that does not need any further conversion by the body and is directly absorbed. They tablets are relatively small and dissolve under two minutes making it easy for me and no lack of absorption.

Did you really search the archives for a FOUR YEAR OLD post just to do an ad for that vitamin brand?!?

Lora

No... I am new here. I don't do any type of ads. I was sharing my experience on a thread i came across, I thought it might help others.