[TinyBabySteps]

Hi all! I'm thinking of starting to take Vitamin B.

I read in this site that the important B vitamins for bipolar disorder are B1, B6 and B12.

Is it common to find a "B Vitamin Complex" that includes these three B Vitamins, or is it better if I take them separately?

Sidenote: I'm currently taking Olanzapine (atypical antipsychotic) Lithium (mood stabilizing mineral) and Risperidone (antipsychotic).

Thanks in advance!

[glok]

Hello, TinyBabyStep. Perhaps, you could ask your psychiatrist to assist you with the vitamin B questions?

I wish you well.

[insilence]

from what ive read about vitamin B's they cal the hallucination effect of psychedelic drugs, so i can see them working well. i dont take them, mainly cause i cant afford to buy them

[Perna]

Take them as a Complex (all the B vitamins together, not just those 3) as the B's work together and if you take them separately you can get them unbalanced and really mess up your body worse. If you want to take more of particular ones, you can do that but also take the Complex pill. But I would talk to your psychiatrist and primary care physicians too, see what they say. Vitamins don't help anything unless you need them and they can hurt taking them when you don't or just be a very expensive waste.