B vitamin presupposition failure.

[dr_whom]

Just got a call from my doctor's office telling me I should stop taking vitamin B12 supplements, but should "continue taking" B-complex supplements.

I haven't been taking B-complex supplements. …I guess I'll start?

Comments

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Weird... You checked to make sure that they didn't confuse your results with someone else's, right?

[dr_whom]

Huh, that didn't occur to me. (And I could totally believe that my doctor told me to start taking B-complex supplements and I forgot to do it.) I told the nurse I hadn't been taking B-complex supplements, and she said in that case I should probably start, but she didn't seem very certain of it.

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe call back just to make sure they had the right guy? It's possible that they actually meant to tell you something else entirely.

[dr_whom]

Hm. I guess I'll do that on Monday.

[(Anonymous)]

Energy drinks?

-Ed

[prisminawindow.livejournal.com]

Are you taking a multi-vitamin? Sometimes multi-vitamins have basically the content of a B-complex (along with other stuff), so maybe you told them about that and that's what they're thinking of/maybe you're already set on that front depending upon the multi? (I am not an expert; you should check up on all of this, etc.)

[dr_whom]

Nope! The B12 was the only supplement I was taking.

[q10.livejournal.com]

perhaps they think you have a time machine?