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Hello Joseph @jhkeffer, Welcome to Connect. Thank you for sharing how B6 toxicity affected your wife. It's great to hear that discontinuing the multivitamins made a difference. Most people don't understand the impact and just think it's only vitamins...vitamins are good for you. A person really has to be their own advocate and learn as much as they can about their health. It's awesome that your wife has her own live in doctor who can be her advocate. Thanks again for sharing on Connect.
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I have severe, painful neuropathy in feet, legs, hands, arms, and mouth. I have also been tested for B6, and have high levels (around 80 ng/ml). I stopped taking a multivitamin with B6 last October 2018 when I first tested high for B6, but my levels have not decreased. Does anyone know how to lower your B6 levels. I don't eat much red meat or any other food that has high B6 that I know of.
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You won’t believe this! My first neurology visit in June 2018 had me leaving with a food grade vitamin RX called Metanx, you call the company directly and they mail it to your home. Of course I was very excited and hoping for relief and began taking them immediately - within a few days my tingling burning numbness pain increased tremendously, I cut it back to one time per day instead of two, felt somewhat better, so totally eliminated it and was back to my baseline. THEN I did my research and deduced that it was the 70 mg. of B6 which I didn’t need, based on my primary care doctor ordered bloodwork. This neurologist never even checked my vitamin levels before prescribing this! He was 'fired'.