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Date: 2015-04-24 10:32 am (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou madara guarding)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Fuck. ;___; <33333

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Date: 2015-04-24 12:08 pm (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (atla sokka fml)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Oh no, that process can be so fucking horrible. :/ <33333

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Date: 2015-04-24 10:52 am (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28
BAH

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Date: 2015-04-24 11:50 am (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
Bugger.

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Date: 2015-04-24 12:44 pm (UTC)
worlds_of_smoke: A picture of a brilliantly colored waterfall cascading into a river (Default)
From: [personal profile] worlds_of_smoke
Crap. :( -offers hugs and tea-

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Date: 2015-04-24 01:50 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
Ooh, that sounds ominous, given the givens. Hugs?

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Date: 2015-04-24 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wyrdatlast
Oh no :( <3

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Date: 2015-04-24 03:19 pm (UTC)
birke: (Default)
From: [personal profile] birke
Darn it.

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Date: 2015-04-24 03:33 pm (UTC)
sfred: Fred wearing a hat in front of a trans flag (Default)
From: [personal profile] sfred
Oh. :-(

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Date: 2015-04-24 03:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nanila
AAARGGGH. /o\

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:03 pm (UTC)
fyreharper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fyreharper
Well, drat. :(

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:14 pm (UTC)
shanaqui: Riku and Sora from Kingdom Hearts II. Text: now I realise. ((RikuSora) Realise)
From: [personal profile] shanaqui
Damn. *sends good thoughts*

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:32 pm (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Fuckweasels.

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:32 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:34 pm (UTC)
tim: Tim with short hair, smiling, wearing a black jacket over a white T-shirt (Default)
From: [personal profile] tim
:(

If you want some advice about a closely related medical thing, lmk, though I won't assume that you want advice or even that you don't already know about the other thing I'm thinking of.

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:47 pm (UTC)
tim: Tim with short hair, smiling, wearing a black jacket over a white T-shirt (Default)
From: [personal profile] tim
I don't know which B vitamins you mean (possibly all), but the following applies to folic acid and B12: there is something called the MTFHR gene, in which about 10% of people have a mutation that makes us unable to metabolize those vitamins from food or supplements at all. I recently found out I'm one of the lucky 10%, and I'd never heard of this before in my life so I thought I'd mention it. There's also a large percentage of people who have a heterozygous version (the 10% is people with it as homozygeous) that reduces their ability to metabolize B vitamins (and possibly some other vitamins) though they can still get some benefit out of supplements.

For me, I have to take L-methylfolate (in the US, anyway, there's a prescription version that's expensive, and an OTC version that may or may not be as good, I'm not sure) for sure, which is what people with a working MTFHR gene turn folic acid into; I also inferred that it might be a good idea to take methylcobalamin (what people with a working MTFHR gene turn B12 into) given that my B12 levels also were low. (My psychiatrist was the one who clued me in -- she knew I was thinking about getting pregnant so obviously folic acid is important, but also, it turns out that for people on antidepressants and certain other mental health meds, not having enough bioavailable B vitamins makes it impossible for the meds to work right.) It's always hard to isolate one variable, but I've noticed a significant increase in my quality of mood and energy level since I started taking those two supplements.

FWIW, as of this year, my folic acid and B12 levels came back low but not *disastrously* low, before I went on the supplements. My Vitamin D was also borderline-low even though I've been supplementing that for a while.

Sorry if this is old info to you; if it's not, though, asking about getting tested might be worth it. here's one page I found about doing so in the UK (warning: a lot of the pages about MTFHR are pretty breathless and quacky but I think the issue is real despite the people out there who will attribute everything short of a broken toe to it.)

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:52 pm (UTC)
tim: Tim with short hair, smiling, wearing a black jacket over a white T-shirt (Default)
From: [personal profile] tim
Ah ok! Well, if Marmite makes a difference then that's probably diagnostic of not having this issue :) Too bad.

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Date: 2015-04-24 04:56 pm (UTC)
tim: Tim with short hair, smiling, wearing a black jacket over a white T-shirt (Default)
From: [personal profile] tim
No worries, I took it that way :)

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Date: 2015-04-24 05:37 pm (UTC)
shortcipher: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shortcipher
:-( <3

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Date: 2015-04-24 06:05 pm (UTC)
quartzpebble: (Default)
From: [personal profile] quartzpebble
Fuckweasels. <3

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Date: 2015-04-25 12:15 am (UTC)
thatyourefuse: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thatyourefuse
:(

You've probably already investigated this, but have you noticed a pattern of depressive episodes around this time of year? I ask because I personally went at least five years of appalling crashes starting around the end of April before anyone brought the link between seasonal allergies and depression to my attention.

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Date: 2015-04-25 12:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thatyourefuse

Gotcha -- I figured you'd probably be aware of it as a possibility, but on the off-chance, and in case someone reading the comments had the same pattern but hadn't caught it yet.

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Date: 2015-04-25 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] flippac
I don't read DW often enough. And... fuck. Good luck from here.

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