Extreme Dry Lips, anyone get this?

[mojogal]

Since getting Lyme, a symptom that I have noticed is extreme dry lips to the point where they are cut and I am constantly using a lip balm for it and even something to "sugar" the lips to get rid of the dryness but it only comes back. Has anyone had this? I would love to find something that would really work.

[youvegottobekidding]

Glad to hear it worked!

Jackie, I did just the same thing with B12!! When the lab tested me, they re-checked my blood 6 times, because it was so high they thought they must have made some kind of lab error! Whoops.

If you take too much of any B vit, you get deficiencies in all the other ones. I would dare to speculate that maybe your mouth problem was caused by a deficiency in B2... which I think is the one that gives you angular stomatitis when deficient, if I remember rightly.

[mojogal]

the blistex worked so fast, my lips are almost normal so thank you, relief!

[JackieCalifornia]

I made the classic mistake of thinking if a little [B12] is good, then a lot will be better ... duh.  Since B vitamins are water soluble (right?), I figured they would just wash out of my body ... but no.  I cut back to a 'normal' dose and the cracked lips/corner of mouth cleared up pretty fast.

[mojogal]

That is interesting, I am on a lot of b12.

[mojogal]

I like that list, thanks

[JackieCalifornia]

fwiw, I got parched and peeling lips, esp. in the corners of my mouth, from taking too much Vitamin B12.