Am I the only one here who never needed B12 supplement? My doc never prescribed me one (which I don't understand) and I never took it....just a one a day Multivitamin. But I just had my blood work done and my B12 is right in the middle of happy. Never had any symptoms of anemia either.

Looking at a list of foods high in B12, I hardly eat any of the top 5 (clams, oysters, liver, octopus and caviar) bit I do eat a lot of the 6-10 foods on the list (fish, beef, cheese and eggs). Am I unusual? Did my doc not cut away enough stomach (tongue in cheek), or am I just getting enough from food?

Hopefully I won't need injections, but my PCP says they're no big deal to self inject. We shall see!

I'm one of the folks that did have very low B12 levels and I do self-inject. It's absolutely no big deal and not even painful. For me, it's a sub-Q injection into my stomach and it's really worked wonders on my energy levels and even helped relieve some of that memory loss I was struggling with post op. Well, it helped until pregnancy brain set in, anyway.

~Cheri

Whatdya mean you don't eat much octopus!?