How much B12 do you take
Make sure it’s the Methyl B12, Not the Cyano-B12.

Also look at taking 10,000 mcg daily while you have low platelets

Now that I’m off MM Meds and MRD Negative I still take 5,000 to 10,000 mcgs daily (mostly 5,000)

While I was dealing with MM, I always took the 10,000 mcgs and 15,000IU Vit D3 daily plus many others. It’s really important to keep your Vit D levels at 85ng to 100ng.

Costco has a Methyl-B12 chewable at 5,000mcg per

Probably the easiest thing you can do is take a daily supplement of B12, which promotes healthy red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets ( the 3 major components of blood). Your body doesn't make vitamin B12 so you have to get it from the foods you eat or from supplements. When I join this group, one thing people encourage me to do was take B12…and I listened.

Yes, I have. It fluctuates, but mine has been as low as 8. The treatment I received was a blood transfusion. I've had a few of those as my platelet count as well as my hemoglobin count was low.

@A MyMyelomaTeam Member That’s a good question. I bounce between Nature Made Vitamin B12 1000 mcg, and Nature's Bounty Quick Dissolve Vitamin B-12 Tablets 1000mcg - 41,667% daily allowance. Also men’s One a Day which has vitamin B12 25 mcg - 1,042%. The good news is B12 is one of those vitamins the doesn’t accumulate in the body. Like vitamin C, what isn’t used is peed out.

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Getting my myeloma under control, helped my platelets stay up. They were 66 thousand at diagnosis. They stayed up after I started treatment and then after I had a stem cell transplant. I had platelet transfusions a couple of times the first year I was diagnosed, but none since.