Do Vitamin B12 Supplements Cause Acne?
Should there be concerns around B12 and acne? Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.
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Should there be concerns around B12 and acne? Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.
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I'm glad Thorne's B12 in their B Complex is modest at 400mcg which would be 2800mcg weekly, which is only slightly higher than this guy's recommendation of 2000mcg per week. I checked a past B Complex I took had 2000mcg IN ONE TABLET! No wonder my face wasn't improving.
his speech patterns irk me but good information
You really should get some usable protein in you to counteract that muscle deficiency there.
If i take one Vitamin B12 supplement a week my face erupts. Doc, there must be a safe way for people with acne to take it?
How long did it take to get clear skin?
So I stopped taking it for 2 weeks, but I still got pimples.
Is that normal? Do I have to wait a little bit longer to see any results?
Please help me…
I can take a low dosage of vitamin b12 500 twice a week and get painful pumps on my face and my Dietians from my rny bariatric surgery keep saying they have never ever heard of it, I’m so sad and don’t know what to do MY Face hurts!!
I’ve been on Methyl b12 5000mcg to treat depression (a friends recommendation). It worked as I have had no depression for weeks now but I am breaking out like crazy! I started halfing the pills, it was better but still not good. As per comments I will try a non-methyl version and in lesser dosage and see what happens.
I get mad acne taking just 250mcg of B12 per week, not as an injection, but as a chewable pill. I believe this is because I use cyanocobalamin, which literally turns into cyanide when digested. You can use methylcobalamin + adenosylcobalamin, but that makes me feel like I've smoked crack and would probably give me a heart attack. So I tried hydroxocobalamin, the best and most natural form, but it has an unreliable shelf life, and still made me feel too jittery. My solution is to eat clams. Sorry clams. They don't have brains or spinal cords. So while I do feel bad, and recognize their sentience, I draw the line at human health. I'm okay with being fully vegan with the one exception of a few clams per month. It's the lowest sentience, highest B12 option availabe.
B12 sucks
I too got severe acne after taking 5 shots of b 12 supplement . Trust me it takes lot of patience to clear the acne. For me it took nearly 1.5 months to get the clear skin from severe acne without dark spots .
Step 1 : take an appointment with dermatologist and get acne soap or facewash with benzoyl peroxide and with tea tree oil ,For me doctor had prescribed me binora acne bar
Step2: dermatologist prescribed cylindamycin topical gel for 10 days . It cleared every acne
Step 3 : take b 12 shots and once you recieved your shots ,stop taking your supplement tablets and maintain the level through food by taking fortified food and south Indian raagi kanchi , egg , chicken take less intake of dairy and dairy product.
Step4 : prepare home based neem toner , multani metti facepack, cucumber juice ice cube .
Step5: for dark spots – rice powder ice cubes on face or potato and lemon and cucumber juice ice cubes on face.
Go to parlour and do facial which reduces acne
Step 6 : be calm if I can clear my b 12 acne u too can clear it but it will take minimum one month to clear
Eye have been experiencing the symptoms of B12 deficiency on a huge and very scary scale this past month. Been vegan for 14 years, but never had these symptoms. So, naturally eye bombarded my system with all the B12 eye could get, injections and pills. Threw in a ton of magnesium, calcium, biotin and zinc for good measure. And within five days my skin became a battlefield: first the chest, then my face. Eye couldn't leave the house eye felt so hideous. And eye could FEEL the inflammation. Stopped taking supplements and within a week my skin cleared up again. Eye don't know how to get that healthy balance of supplementation. Eye used to get acne caused by b12 oral spray before.
“It is possible for any animal to get acne,” Dr. Pieper says, “although we see it most commonly in cats and dogs.” There isn't a particular breed or sex that is predisposed to acne. Unlike the humans, who are acne-prone in their teens, animals typically develop acne in middle age
I am that lucky 1 in 10 after 1000mg B12 injection, it came out after 5 days and now I am on antibiotics and I look like sci-fi monster, if you acne prone think twice before taking B12 shots, no one tells you about it. And not many people know about it.
What about high B12 and eczema? I have both and curious if there’s a causal relationship?
I started getting acne around my mouth and nose! I could not figure out what changed. I thought it was wearing lip balm to bed, but then I stopped doing it and it still persists. Today I realized it's probably the B12! I had no idea!
What he completely overlooked is that vitamin B12 is a strong antioxidant, which can help your body detox. Acne is a sign of a need of detoxification. Of course, lowering your dose might decrease the symptoms, but that means your body isn't detoxed like it should be. Funny how the detoxification system played a big role in western medicine until the 1970s, but has been vanished since then, when most health issues have a strong element of it not working as it should.
How long it will take to clear acne caused by b12 injection. I got 3 shot 1000 mcg. Its been 1 and half month still gets acne . So disgrace. But the severity has been reduced! Anyone who got cleared how long it takes for you
I have a vitamin b12 defiency and am a generally acne prone person . My doctor has prescribed me to have 1500 mcg of vitamin b12 per day ( 500 mcg tablets for 3 times) for three months.Now my acne is popping out like he'll instead of using salicylic acid and retinol. Now I can't stop my medicine because i have a huge deficiency and I don't know what to do with these acne and my prom party is coming up and I am doomed
I get acne from B supplements and it's the deep cystic acne type. I can't take a lot of multivitamins because they put in huge amounts of B. Just unnecessary.
It's not just the supplements it's a condition of the intestines and the kidneys like Candida but supplements are never needed. dairy processed grains, fried foods ,meat crappy food