Has anyone else experienced severe mood swings, extreme fatigue, tingling in the hands and feet, no appetite, and a desire to eat ice or dirt (due to pernicious anemia)?

I've been doing a lot of research online to find out what the side effects are of severe deficiencies with vitamins and minerals because of my own vitamin and mineral deficiencies due to malabsorption (thanks to my sluggish thyroid, pernicious anemia for being a major cause).

And, every article I read (esp. in medical journals) points to the fact that these deficiencies also effect your mental health to the point where you feel like you have 24-hr PMS mood swings.

This article is really informative about the side effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Who knew they could have these side effects?

I'm not as crazy as King George III of England, who suffered from Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP): a genetic metabolic disorder due to a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. But it begs the question: how much does our physical health play a part in how well our state of mental health is? I think people tend to overlook just how much these deficiencies affect our mood and energy level.

I've been going for walks a few times a week, early in the morning and in the evening because my doctors told me to. I'm so vitamin deficient, despite the fact that I eat a healthy diet, it's maddening. My body isn't absorbing the nutrients from the food I eat, so I am taking all of these synthetic vitamins and minerals hoping they will get absorbed. It's just a small part of the puzzle that my doctors can't solve as to why I can't lose weight, absorb the nutrients I need from the food that I eat, and why despite normal test results, I have pernicious anemia, low red blood cells etc.

I keep going for tests ordered by my endocrinologist, my gastroenterologist and my regular doctor to determine why I have the issues I do, but no clear answers so far which is really frustrating.