I'm a doctor. I'm not aware of any classic pathology that involves cerebral vasculature and vitamin B. There are some cerebral vasculitides that might initially be diagnosed as vitamin B deficiency, and vice versa.
Quora user Lazlo B Tamas would be a good person to ask, though coincidentally he has already gave his answer to the question itself and didn't address this answer.
Vitamin D deficiency is also common. But obviously there might be other deficiencies (or in a very rare case some genetic disorder).
Or there can be an undiagnosed chronic infections. Here is an MD who cured himself of chronic Lyme with better nutrition plus herbs plus antibiotics: http://www.lymebook.com/lyme-disease-solution
Bottom line: mainstream medicine has only become good so far at treating the first two of these three major health situations:
* accidental trauma (based on learning from US battlefield experience in surgery)
* acute infectious disease (mostly by quarantine, sanitation, and increasingly-less-effective antibiotics -- until maybe phage therapy becomes common someday)
* chronic disease like autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disease, or cancer (usually caused by the Standard American Diet, but maybe also interacting with some other factors including exposure to toxins etc.)
All that said, part of healing is mental or spiritual -- so reading good stories can indeed help with that in a variety of ways.
I have a personal interest in this as my dad had celiac disease, refused to obey the diet, then within a few years had vascular dementia, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and three strokes! Inflammation -> brain problems feels like a natural connection to me whether through pathogen or immune reaction.
I just showed this to my friend who is a doctor, he says:
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It's a possibility of pernicious anemia, which would cause B12 to be low.
It's an autoimmune disease which he has a predisposition with Hashimoto's.
He should get a complete blood count with differential, Serum Vit B12 level, Anti-parietal cell antibodies, Ant-intrisic factor antibodies and Methylmalonic acid level.
Also he should probably go to a hematologist or immunologist as they are more likely to think of this diagnosis.
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He says it's impossible to diagnose without seeing the patient, and without seeing the bloodwork, etc. So, go get yourself checked out by someone who is familiar with this disease.
Best of luck to you.
Edit: I noticed that someone else said the same thing below. Nonetheless, hope that something here helps you.
I second this. I had a close relative suffer from this. The doctors didn't catch it for years, but once they diagnosed it, and she started taking the B12 shots, it made a huge difference.
Also...a vitamin B12 deficiency, a spectrum of autoimmune diseases, alcohol withdrawal, generalized anxiety disorder, lime disease, post treatment lime disease syndrome, various nerve disorders, early onset of MS (which is of course an autoimmune disease), stress, emotional trauma, an undetected previous stroke, post traumatic stress disorder, burnout...
..and a serious bout of COVID with say hospitalization might be the tipping point for many of the above conditions.
I get tiny clots and mini strokes all the time. Factor 5 Leiden. Not at all rare.
Took 3 years and dozens of doctor and hospital visits to figure out. At every stage I was dismissed. Took a big clot that nearly killed me to figure it out.
I had severe cognitive decline, but since I started at borderline genius and went down to “somewhat slow” they felt I was fine.
I regained much after starting blood thinners, but not all.
Ah yes subacute combined degeneration [of the spinal cord]. Most people with B12 deficiency don’t get to the point of neurological symptoms as the article author did, because they are diagnosed earlier with B12 deficiency anemia.
Here is another fun and obscure B12 deficiency fact: if you are borderline or low, Nitrous Oxide (NO) anaesthesia (or recreational use) can provoke paralysis.
Factor 5 Leiden, genetic disorder. It went crazy after a gas leak.
1 day without blood thinners and I have visual artifacts.
2 days
and my right side goes numb and I lose the ability to write.
Goes downhill from there.
This is interesting to me because my mother has MS and it's _because_ the blood-brain barrier is too open that she has health issues. Surprising there's good reason to open it up.
More and more, I'm finding its all about the homocysteine. It's correlated with all kinds of neurological problems with different names.
Something about it gets out of regulation by the body and the sufferer falls into the incident pit. Can be something as innocuous as antibiotics wrecking your digestion or a bad diet from being poor that begins the decline.
Yes, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, exceedingly rare condition in the general population. It can cause permanent neurological disability and death if not diagnosed and treated.
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis presents with nonspecific symptoms (eg headaches). It can only be diagnosed with cerebral imaging of specific modalities (CT or MR brain venogram, expensive and specialised tests). From speaking to colleagues in the UK, their hospital system is quite overwhelmed and doctors are repurposed outside their field (eg surgeons looking after internal medicine patients). It is quite possible in the throes of a pandemic to be underestimating the incidence of this condition in the UK.
There's a lot more to the relationship between pathogens and neurological conditions. This article has some good information: https://return.life/2022/05/endemic-pathogens/ (Please ignore the clickbaity tone, there's actually good stuff here).
We know there are a ton of correlations. We don't have causal links, although there is quite a bit of speculation about inflammation.
Genetic Factor 5 Leiden. I clot like crazy. A really bad chemical exposure triggered gene to go crazy. So tons of micro strokes. (TIA) doctors were constantly dismissing, as if it was strokes then I would certainly be dead already.
All blood thinners help with symptoms. Even Asprin helps some.
The main ones. Eliquis and Xarelto both 100% fixed cognitive issue. Side effects are rough. But that’s a separate issue.
Quora user Lazlo B Tamas would be a good person to ask, though coincidentally he has already gave his answer to the question itself and didn't address this answer.
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