Vitamin B12 injections

[Angrymenopauser]

A friend of a friend said that her hair had got so much thicker and that it must have been due to a B12 injection she had at her beauty salon.

Has anyone one else had this experience after a none GP B12 injection?

No effect on my hair

Another option if you don't have a medical need for B12 injections is buy the B12 in spray form, you spray it under your tongue or into your cheek and it absorbs from there. I'd try that before I'd let someone non-medical inject me. You can buy the spray in health food stores.

Try Biotin

Waiting to hear back from blood test from GP if I need B12 or not. Both my brothers did!

Another HCP here. I cannot imagine letting someone not medically trained inject me for vanity reasons. I saw these getting advertised recently from a salon but it was methylcobalamin which isn't even a licensed medicine. Is it this form people on this thread get from salons? How do you ensure the quality of what's being put into your body if it isn't licensed? If it's hydroxocobalamin, who's prescribing it?

IMO, if you suspect you're deficient, see a GP for a blood test and get it prescribed if necessary. If you're not deficient, what a waste of time and money.

As an aside, I started taking Pregnacare vitamins as a general vitamin supplement (it has B vitamins in there) and my hair has got thicker. Much cheaper, less invasive solution.

@Treeballarae

Another option if you don't have a medical need for B12 injections is buy the B12 in spray form, you spray it under your tongue or into your cheek and it absorbs from there. I'd try that before I'd let someone non-medical inject me. You can buy the spray in health food stores.

The spray is the same as taking a tablet though, probably more expensive.

I've never tried the injections but my B12 levels were on the lower side of normal so I started using a high dose spray and that improved my energy lots. Could be a good place to start if you don't want injections?

Diagnosed with pernicious anaemia about 6 years ago.
My hair was getting really grey at the time. Since I started my regular injections the grey has reduced dramatically. I can think of no other reason for this and no longer have to dye my hair.

if it's hydroxocobalamin, who's prescribing it?

The lady who owns my local aesthetics clinic is a nurse practitioner, and yes it’s hydroxocobalamin. A lot of people seek out these clinics for b12 because far too many doctors don’t seem to accept that some people need their shots more regularly than every 12 weeks. If they could get appropriate treatment with their GP then they would do so, people only seek other solutions out of desperation.

I was prescribed b12 injections for a few months and then had a blood test for something else and was un-prescribed off the back of that... I've been using the spray as apparently absorbs better than tablets but I feel no way near as good as when I had the injections.

You won't @SchoolFraud other countries have a much higher base level of B12 to the UK and supplement at higher levels; it isn't regulated as much because it is water-soluble and any excess if expelled in your wee

Plus once supplementing the UK test is effectively useless

There is a line of research suggesting that sone people absorb, utilise and (short term) store B12 badly so need more

Its worth doing your own research

Both B12 & vit D deficiencies seem to be implicated in dementia