So I had my MRI in mid-July and everything was normal. The technician said as much right after the test and the doctor confirmed it earlier this week. So that’s the good news, except that I still have some symptoms and don’t really know why.

I have kept up with the B12 and about three weeks ago started with daily injections on my own, into my thigh. I had got rid of most of my symptoms but the last of them seemed to only recede once I started the injections. I’d say right now my symptoms are about 80 to 90 per cent gone as compared to how they were in late March or early April. (I want to say 99 per cent gone but every time I start thinking that way it tends to come back a little bit.)

In all honesty, based on how I felt the last week of March, I expected to be in a wheelchair and housebound by this time and was pretty scared about it. I have sons that play hockey and I was honestly expecting to be viewing the games in a wheelchair.

Jennie you could well be right that I have MS or something else and it is simply in remission but for now I am going to keep up with the B12 because my MRI doesn’t show them I have MS. I have heard that sometimes an MRI will come back negative initially but as the disease progresses it will show up. I can only hope that’s not the case with me.

I spoke to the doctor about the B12 and he simply said it can’t do me any harm, can only do me good, so I take him at his word. Although he didn’t seem to want concede I had a B12 problem (or pottassium or calcium problem, the other two deficiencies that can cause tingling and numbness). It was just, well, your blood tests were normal, now your MRI is normal, if the B12 is helping you feel better, then keep taking it. End of appointment.

As I write this I wonder if the doctor thinks I actually do have something bad, these two tests just haven’t revealed it yet.

It is also a bit troubling to think that whatever is bothering me might never be really diagnosed. When I first saw a doctor about this she seemed sure that my blood work would come back normal and the MRI would be the thing that revealed what the problem was. But that hasn’t happened. They didn’t actually tell me what my blood work said, just that it was normal although my red blood cell count was a little low.

In the meantime, my back and irritable bowel problems remain virtually gone. Now if I do do some kind of work that involves my back, it either doesn’t hurt or hurts just a little but within a half hour the pain is gone and everything is fine. I never have a sore back the next day or anything like that. The irritable bowel pain is still there in a very slight way some mornings, but nothing like in the past and many days I don’t feel it at all – like today. It’s like I never had it, even though it bothered me from about my mid-20s.

I saw a doctor about irritable bowel then and he simply said, some people get irritable bowel syndrome, you have to figure out what foods are bothering you and start avoiding them. That’s all he had to offer. And that was what I did for 20 years. It’s more than a little annoying to think maybe I had a B12 deficiency starting even back then – or at least that B12 could have helped my bowels regenerate their lining – and he never mentioned it.

Anyway, even though all the tests say otherwise, I have to think a) the B12 is doing me a lot of good and b) I had some kind of B12 deficiency, just based on how it’s making me feel, which is very good.

I still have this odd tingling in my fingertips every few days, for instance right now as I type this, but very slight, and some odd feeling in my mouth—all in the upper teeth, sometimes the front teeth, sometimes the sides, and sometimes my tongue hurts— although a few days ago I did not have these problems and actually did not have a single symptom bothering me. This is compared to the base of both feet, my toes, my fingers, my mouth and lower part of my face back to my ears feeling tingly/numb/sore back in late March.

Funny thing is that when I first wrote on here I was defending the lollipops but I have not ordered any more lately. The B12 injections are very reasonable. You can get a vial good for 10 injections for about $8. The syringes are very reasonable, about 25 cents each (these are Canadian dollars and cents, which these days is about on par with U.S.). You need some alcohol swab pads, which were very cheap – box of 100 for a few dollars, cotton balls and Band-Aids and you’re all set. And now I know it is going into my system and bypassing my intestinal tract, which doesn’t seem to be absorbing it.

It takes some guts to stick that needle in the first time, but there are some YouTube videos on how to do it posted by healthcare providers. The pharmacy even supplies a recycling canister for you to throw the used needles in and return it to them. This is a free service. The injectable B12 is not a prescription thing, at least not here in Canada. Once I finally got the courage to do it, it doesn’t seem like that much of a big deal now, although I am a little nervous before every injection. But then I am probably just a wimp anyway.

Anyway, again I am going on very long here. I think it’s because I don’t have a lot of people to talk to about this. The doctors don’t seem that interested. I guess if I feel pretty good, look good and have a normal blood test and normal MRI, they’re wondering what my problem is. I haven’t told any co-workers because I am in a business where rumours spread like wildfire. And besides it’s none of their business. I think if I start telling my friends that I have essentially self-diagnosed B12 defiency, they’re going to think I am nuts. Maybe I am.

I might find myself coming back here in a year to report that my symptoms returned and the B12 is not doing anything to stop them. I don’t know. But for now I am just going to keep on with what I am doing.

Wall o friggin text.

I don’t see the value in sending some of my hard earned money to someone who puts huge amounts of B12 in a lollypop and charges a lot of money for it. $1 a piece for 3.6mg. Especially someone who claimed he wouldn’t try to make money off of this.

I could get more for less—5mg, $0.18 each—http://www.amazon.com/Methylcobalamin-Sublingual-Vitamin-B-12-5000mcg/dp/B000BO1LY4

But, I’d have to ask, why are people who are so concerned about metals putting that much cobalt into their system?

All this without going into the idea that as an autism treatment, this has no support.

how does a vegetarian magazine add anything to this discussion? The magazine has two lines on Revitapop. They don’t say it works for anything, they don’t say it is better than just taking B12.

They do note that the Revitapop has a huge dose of the vitamin.

If this is such a good delivery system for B12, why do they need huge doses?

I agree with the post above me (Chuck). While their website does seem to make some far out claims, I did some research and found that this lollipop actually just won best new vegetarian product at Expo West. Spam? I doubt it. I will post the news article below from VegNews Magazine.

http://www.vegnews.com/web/art.....38;catId=1

Paul

So, you talked a lot about the legality of the lollipop, but not much about the actual effectiveness of MB12.

If these lollipops deliver MB12, and MB12 does have some possible benefits… I guess what I am saying is that you seem to have gone off on a pretty big rant about what this guy Stan has to say about MB12, and about his nasal spray patent, but you don’t ever really talk about what other people have had to say about MB12 in general.

What do you know about MB12? Does it work? Does it have any good effects?