Vitamin B6 toxicity

Recently, one of my doctors actually listened when I talked about how many B vitamins I take. Side note: I noticed it helped my energy and fatigue, also B2 can help with migraine prevention and folate can help with hormone stability but I have limited understanding of those.

Anyways, my doctor checked folate and B6 levels and found that my B6 levels are toxic. (I didn’t get the exact numbers, yet.) Most doctors say that because B vitamins are water-soluble you’re fine because your body will dispose of the excess. Except, not everyone’s metabolism is the same so this isn’t actually true. Maybe it’s okay on average.

I’ve never had my folate and B6 or anything else besides B12 levels checked. I have no idea how long I’ve been “toxic” in B6 or if I’m deficient in anything else. I know my B12 levels need to stay high and I know my body likes it when some other vitamins are high too. (High in the normal range.)

B6 toxicity can do lots of different things.

From Mayo Clinic:

Vitamin B6 may cause abnormal heart rhythms, acne, allergic reactions, breast enlargement or soreness, changes in folic acid levels, decreased muscle tone, drowsiness or sedation, feeling of a lump in the throat, feeling of tingling on the skin, headache, heartburn, loss of appetite, nausea, rash, recurrence of ulcerative colitis (an inflammatory bowel disorder), stomach discomfort or pain, sun sensitivity, vomiting, and worsened asthma.

Over this year I’ve had my migraines and asthma change. I’ve also been having unpredictable and erratic GI symptoms. I’ve had a difficult time with PT and trying to build muscle strength, more so in the last half of the year than the first half of the year. I have no clue at all whatsoever if these problems are because one or more of my diseases/disorders have changed or if it’s the B6 toxicity, or BOTH.

In the last month or so I’ve had some minor problems with balance too. I wonder if it’s the B6? Or my MS?

Also, I have no idea how long it takes B6 to come done.

Other helpful looking links (I didn’t look too close at these though)…

Author: Histamine Queen

Nerd, wife, knitter, writer, cat mom, and comic book reader w/masters of science in Applied Sociology. I have histamine intolerance, lots of food allergies and sensitivities - including gluten. And I have multiple sclerosis fibromyalgia, asthma, drug allergies, and migraines. Basically, I have a collection of invisible chronic health problems. I don't just survive these things, but sometimes I do hate them because I see doctors so often that keeping healthy and staying full time employed is currently impossible.