HyperdimensionalApe
Jedi
I just want to address my experience. I'm not completely sure that this is my problem, but I've read other peoples experiences and I think this is it.
So my story. About a year ago, I was taking Magnesium Taurate from KAL brand which has 12.5 mg (893% of RDA) of vitamin B6 in it's active form P5P (Pyridoxal 5 Phosphate). I was already aware that this vitamin can be toxic, but in it's so called inactive form Pyridoxine HCL. I was taking it for a few days, then stopped, after around two days after I've stopped, I woke up and my OCD was much worse, and I got depressed, I've never been depressed and I just didn't want to get up from bed. It was terrible.
So I started searching what, why have I've gotten like this. And what I've noticed was that after I've took this magnesium supplement I've got better and when I stopped it, it got worse.
So why do I think it's B6 toxicity. After a bit of research, I've joined a facebook group called Exploring vitamin B6 toxicity, and read other peoples experiences and found some similarities, depression, increased obsessive (OCD) thoughts, pure magnesium supplement helps a bit. My other symptoms include: muscle twitches around the body, frequent but hard stool, things that would usually cause diarrhea, nothing, that summer before, I ate a whole pack of prunes, got stomachache and diarrhea in a hour, then when it started nothing, magnesium citrate would cause diarrhea, nothing. I also got a weird sensation at the tip of my penis, yes... I went to a urologist, did bloodwork, all fine, no UTI, everything with prostate ok. Most of the physical symptoms went away in about a month after not taking the supplement, it will be about a year from that in about a month or so. But what stayed to this day is some form of a low key depression, and I have some weird feeling of pressure in my head.
I just wanted to share this if anyone here could offer some advice and help here, and to make people aware of effects of this vitamin, if this is the case.
So my story. About a year ago, I was taking Magnesium Taurate from KAL brand which has 12.5 mg (893% of RDA) of vitamin B6 in it's active form P5P (Pyridoxal 5 Phosphate). I was already aware that this vitamin can be toxic, but in it's so called inactive form Pyridoxine HCL. I was taking it for a few days, then stopped, after around two days after I've stopped, I woke up and my OCD was much worse, and I got depressed, I've never been depressed and I just didn't want to get up from bed. It was terrible.
So I started searching what, why have I've gotten like this. And what I've noticed was that after I've took this magnesium supplement I've got better and when I stopped it, it got worse.
So why do I think it's B6 toxicity. After a bit of research, I've joined a facebook group called Exploring vitamin B6 toxicity, and read other peoples experiences and found some similarities, depression, increased obsessive (OCD) thoughts, pure magnesium supplement helps a bit. My other symptoms include: muscle twitches around the body, frequent but hard stool, things that would usually cause diarrhea, nothing, that summer before, I ate a whole pack of prunes, got stomachache and diarrhea in a hour, then when it started nothing, magnesium citrate would cause diarrhea, nothing. I also got a weird sensation at the tip of my penis, yes... I went to a urologist, did bloodwork, all fine, no UTI, everything with prostate ok. Most of the physical symptoms went away in about a month after not taking the supplement, it will be about a year from that in about a month or so. But what stayed to this day is some form of a low key depression, and I have some weird feeling of pressure in my head.
I just wanted to share this if anyone here could offer some advice and help here, and to make people aware of effects of this vitamin, if this is the case.
