I can't believe how AWESOME I feel!

[FEELING MUCH BETTER]

Hi, everybody. I am new here. I've had Crohn's for over ten years now. Last year I had a ileocacal (is that you spell it?) resection. It didn't help at all, but I think I'm finally under control. Prednisone is such a miracle!

I did find something else which made me feel absolutely AMAZING because I really didn't know that all my lack of energy stemmed from the fact that we Crohnies can't absorb vitamins, like, at all. I want to share it with you, you can get a free trial and just pay shipping, but trust me, after two days of trying this, I was so focused and energized, I haven't felt like this since I was diagnosed. The key is that it's a vitamin spray that gets absorbed right in your mouth, whereas pills need to be absorbed through the intestines (which we have issues with, obviously) And the coolest part is, after my bloodwork, my doctor didn't even mention my B12 level, which she always does...

 

[Skinny Dub]

And the name of the spray is........

odd there was a link there????

 

[Jeff D.]

I deleted the link due to the no advertising rule on this forum.

 

[Skinny Dub]

my bad didnt know...

 

[Jeff D.]

no problem

 

[DanSJVDavis]

Yeah, sublingual supplements get absorbed in the lining of the mouth. I don't know how well this works, but I did pick up some sublingual B12 at one time. Sometimes it seems to help and sometimes not. You can pretty much get sublingual B12 from bout any big health food or nutrition store. Far as vitamin supplements, I take vitamins in liquid form. Centrum has a liquid version. It probably gets absorbed a bit better than the pill form of vitamin sups.

A sublingual supplement is what this spray sounds like.

 

[imisspopcorn]

I have a sublingual tablet. It disolves slowly. (I really am not impressed with the results). I've heard there are transdermal(skin patches) now. IM is probably the most effective.

 

[Guestly]

I asked my GI about sublingual sprays and patches and he said its a big waste of money and the only way to go is the injections - just his opinion I suppose....?

 

[DanSJVDavis]

You get some benefit from sublingual, but it's nowhere near what you'd get from an injection. Not all of the liquid or pill gets absorbed, so quite a bit of it is still going down your throat, which doesn't help. I have my wife or my sister in law give me my B12 injections. My sister in law is an RN and my wife was shown how to give them by my old nurse and by my sis in law.

 

[Guest1]

I asked my GI about sublingual sprays and patches and he said its a big waste of money and the only way to go is the injections - just his opinion I suppose....?

Injections *always* work better than sublingual. Injections go straight to the blood stream while the under the tongue method loses all of it's "power".