| Letter from a Queensland polio member -
30 July 2006
Dear Tessa
Initially I did not notice any difference and I was starting to wonder if it was going to work for me or not. But then one day, after about 6 weeks of B12 injections, I just did not experience the pain I always got. Since then I do have pain some days but the improvement is unbelievable. At first I had only been able to wear my caliper for about an hour a day then resort to crutches and wheelchair. Now I can wear my caliper for 12 hours each day. I have to admit I am glad to take it off then, but I no longer experience the intense pain that I used to get. Altogether I’m very happy with the result and I will certainly continue with the treatment. I have been back to see my Orthopaedic Specialist, told him I had contacted you people and that I was greatly improved on taking your advice. We offered him the information you had sent us but he declined saying he didn’t need to see me again unless I get worse and decide to have the amputation he recommended. So I no longer have the pain, I am back on my
feet and I STILL HAVE MY FOOT!!
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Dr Jonathon Wright writes on “What is Bursitis?”
Bursitis is the name given to a painful tender, sometimes swollen bursa. A bursa is a very slender, usually unnoticeable structure located at body angles where bone lies almost immediately under the skin, as it does in shoulders, elbows hips, knees and heels.
A bursa contains a very small sack of fluid, which allows it to function as a shock absorber, protecting bony prominences from damage when you occasionally whack them into walls, doors and other solid objects. Once the pain and any swelling from acute injury is gone, an injured bursa usually returns to its unnoticed shock-absorber role until the next inadvertent whack.
But that’s not always the case, especially when
you reach 50. Whether it’s due to years of recurrent injury or any
other reason, some bursas don’t recover and the pain continues for an extended
period of time. At other times the bursa will seem to recover but
then become painful again, often repeating this on-off pain cycle for months
or even years. Some people develop bursitis without any known whack.
| The results showed that women with the lowest
levels of B12 experienced dramatic and rapid hip bone loss compared with
women with higher levels of B12.
Deficiencies of B12 among many older women put them in a higher risk bracket for fractures. Conclusions from the study showed that low serum vitamin B12 levels are linked to increased rates of hip, not calcaneal, bone loss in older women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism March 2004;89(3):1217-21 |
Since the little piece in our June 2006 newsletter on B12 injections for Shingles and Spurs, I have had a few people come in for regular B12 shots with similar results to the letter above.
Dr Jonathon Wright MD in USA heads an article in his Aug 2006 newsletter on B12 injections as “Two weeks to bursitis relief - minus the aspirin, NSAIDS and cortisone shots.”
He says that over 50 years ago a Dr Irving Klemes discovered this B12 cure. He recommended 1,000mg daily for one week then twice weekly then weekly till it was gone. Dr Wright has found that 2,000mg daily every day until the pain goes works even better! And it is perfectly safe, the body just gets rid of any excess.In the September 2006 Dr Jonathon Wright newsletter, another doctor from Canada writes in, saying that although his blood levels for B12 were normal, he found that having one B12 injection immediately cleared up his depression and one every day for 6 months, along with folic acid cured his peripheral neuropathy (ie numbness, tingling, and pricking sensations, sensitivity to touch, or muscle weakness. Extreme symptoms, including burning pain (especially at night), muscle wasting, paralysis. Causes may include physical injury (trauma) to a nerve, toxins, autoimmune responses, nutritional deficiencies, alcoholism, and vascular and metabolic disorders including diabetes.) So even if your B12 blood levels appear to be okay you still may need B12 injections.
Also helps with forget-fulness, ‘woolly thinking’, procrastinating, being disorganised, anaemia, breathlessness. We need acid (lemon juice) in the stomach at the same time we eat B12 foods (eg paté, lamb’s fry) or take tablets to be able to absorb B12.
Loss of white moons on thumbs means low B12.