Check the search engines! Many people take vit. c to help absorb the iron. Vit. B-12 shots are given people w/pernicious anemia because the body is not making a factor that makes iron work. Here's the kicker - vitamin b-12 can only be absorbed about 500 mg. at a time through the stomach, but if you need it, you need way more. Taken sublingually - absorbed under the tonge you bypass stomach acids and can absorb way more. Forget time-release. I used to take 2500/5000 at a time. Many supplements, and even drugs designed to be absorbed that way can be effectively taken at much higher doses. I was testing at slightly below the middle of normal, but I was taking 10 times the daily recommended and 5000 mg. B-12 to get there and maintain there. It took 6 months of that before the symptoms were gone and stayed gone.

You need to be on the right track. If I can do it on a computer almost old enough to drive, you can too. Do the search engines - put in symptoms all of them, things you don't think apply. Assume there are solutions, so don't scare yourself. Don't assume that some of the really scary things that come up are the answer. They aren't usually!!!! Finding the anemia after my husband's death really surprised me. Check add symptoms - not just here - Conner's questionaire and such. Also see if you can find some of the smart old doctors' listing of symptoms. They'll syrprise you. Late to talk then never shut up. Tried to beat up your mother in the womb. lots of colic. overly adverntursome. After you were born you pushed away from her, maybe wouldn't make eye contack with her, but seemed to like daddy. It goes on and on. And remember what people have said about you - how they compared to others they considered okay. Truth is from the unside out - unmedicated - it's easy to thinnk the other person is nuts.