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tfouto THANK YOU!!! So much!!! This is really helpful/valuable information. All I had found about lowering homocysteine was the folic acid/b6/b12 thing. Research is difficult for me, though.
I apologize for the delay in responding. My previous reply to Gurm was 90% complete days ago, so I just had to finish it up. The past few days have been HELL. My job started back up but unfortunately I was only able to work one day. To make a long story short, (which isn't usually my specialty), I started feeling extremely dizzy, weak and just generally horrible. Ended up at urgent care, had a temp of 104.7 which wasn't going down with meds, got sent to ER, had to have a spinal tap as Dr. suspected meningitis (it was negative). Had abnormal EKG's. They wanted to admit me there but because I have medi-cal I had to get transferred via ambulance to a sub-par hospital in the ghetto, and that's where I've been for days. I have the flu and mycoplasma pneumonia. Taking some antibiotic called Levaquin, as well as tamiflu. My body is really fighting right now. I only weigh around 100 lbs but the meds are making me sick so I think I've lost weight. Not sure when I'll be well enough to go back to work. I think I'm going to stop the levaquin. It's making me extremely dizzy, not to mention killing all the good bacteria in my gut.
Anyway- it's really interesting about the choline thing because when I was using cron-o-meter to track my meals/supplements every day, the one thing I would consistently find I seem to be deficient in is choline! I have been a supplement person for a while now, and had considered getting it, but I stopped using the app as it was just too much to deal with (especially with this stupid condition) and it kind of fell to the wayside. But now that I know choline can convert homocycsteine into methoinine I'm really going to focus on this. I do have some betaine HCL/gentian bitters I randomly take before protein heavy meals. I normally take high quality fish or krill oil for my omega's. I'm wary of taking anything that can raise my B12 or B6 at this point because they're both so high. I don't understand it. When I tried taking normal amounts of B12, B6 and folate they all skyrocketed on labs. I haven't taken any of them for months now, and my folate has normalized, but as of my last lab (12-14-18) my B12 was 1140 (ref range 243-894 )and my B6 was 92.4! (ref 2.1-21.7). I just don't understand. The Dr's never seem concerned and say it's water soluble so you just excrete it in urine. Okay. Well, if I was fasting when I did the test, where is the excess coming from?
Again I do thank you so much for finding the info about choline and homecysteine for me. I'll try to read the articles or have them printed as soon as I can.