I was diagnosed with compound heterozygous 677T and 1298C a few weeks ago. I’ve suffered for years from digestive problems, terrible insomnia, brain fog, depression, anxiety, low cholesterol (109 total), low testosterone, severe chemical sensitivity and low body weight. All of this despite the fact that I eat an extremely clean diet (no dairy, gluten, mostly organic for 8 years), do coffee enemas daily, drink RO water and sit in the sauna at least 3x/week.
My naturopath is cleaning up my gut with antibiotics and Nystatin (after running a 3 day stool test) and put me on hormone replacements. I’ve been taking adrenal support supplements for a few years as well. And he put me on Nature Throid for hypothyroid. It all seems to help slightly but I feel from what I’ve read about MTHFR that this may be the missing piece of the puzzle.
He told me to take methylated vitamins B2, B6 and B12. I ran out and bought a B vitamin supplement with cofactors. Felt terrible after 2 days before I realized it had folic acid in it. I bought 5-MTHF and Methyl B12 and started taking those a few days ago. I’ve definitely improved, sleeping better and more energy.
I’m trying to figure out if I should also do the 23andme test? Should I also be taking B2 and B6? Is having both mutations worse than just a single mutation? I know that hetero is not as severe as homo…but what if I have both hetero mutations?? Help….
