Chronic deficiencies may require ongoing treatment

B12 has many functions in our body, so unfortunately a deficiency will give rise to a wide variety of symptoms, like brain fog, memory problems, cognitive impairment, insomnia, headaches, especially migraine, behavioural changes, learning problems, nominal aphasia, mood swings, irritability, depression, anxiety, hallucinations, delusions, psychosis, peripheral paraesthesia (pins and needles), numbness, neuropathic pains, poor balance, reduced vibration sense or proprioception (joint position sense), tinnitus, ataxia, taste impairment, sometimes myelopathy, fatigue, anaemia (either with larger red blood cells, or with normal size of the red blood cells when there is also iron deficiency), other reduction in blood cells, abdominal complaints, malabsorption, failure to thrive, weight loss, diarrhoea, hyperpigmentation, glossitis, (aphthous) stomatitis, infertility, urinary tract infections, joint and muscle pain, muscle weakness, spasticity, seizures, cardiomyopathy, urinary and/or faecal incontinence, postural hypotension/dizziness, erectile dysfunction, to name a few

It slows down the central nervous system and is one of the leading causes of death in the US
This type of medication works by preventing bacteria from multiplying or by killing them
Severe pain with bleeding requires same-day assessment to exclude ectopic pregnancy or other urgent gynaecological conditions