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Taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual
26 Patients currently take Vitamin B12 Sublingual
4 Patients stopped taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual
eastender Sensation: Moderate Overall: Mild Cognition: moderate Vision: mild Speech: mild Swallowing: mild Upper limb: mild Walking: mild See profile eastender daily since Mar 30, 2008
webguy1958 Sensation: Severe Overall: Severe Cognition: moderate Vision: severe Speech: moderate Swallowing: moderate Upper limb: moderate Walking: severe See profile webguy1958 250mcg daily since Sep 22, 2008
jmscout Sensation: None Overall: Mild Cognition: moderate Vision: none Speech: none Swallowing: none Upper limb: moderate Walking: moderate See profile jmscout 1000mcg daily since Sep 17, 2006

What is Vitamin B12 Sublingual? Vitamin B12 is also known as cyanocobalamin. Vitamin B12 is important for growth, cell reproduction, blood formation, and protein and tissue synthesis. It is used to treat vitamin B12 deficiency in people with pernicious anemia and other conditions.

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Reasons Taken

30 patients in the community are taking or have taken Vitamin B12 Sublingual.

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
General health	12	40%
Fatigue	5	16%
Other	4	13%
Slow my MS progress	2	6%
Slow my ALS progress	2	6%
Breathing difficulty	1	3%
Support another treatment	1	3%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual.

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0 mcg day	0 mg day	0 day	0 mcg none	0 none	1 mg day	1 tbs. day	1.2 mg day	2 mg day	5 mg day	250 mcg day	500 mcg day	1000 mcg day	1000 mg day	1000 day	2500 mcg day
1	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual or how long patients were taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual before stopping.

Currently taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	3	4	8	0	9

Stopped taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	2	2	0	0	0

Why Patients Stopped Taking Vitamin B12 Sublingual (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Expense	1	25%
Personal research	1	25%
Other	1	25%
Course of treatment ended	1	25%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 4 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major	100%	2

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	0%	0
Moderate	0%	0
Mild	25%	1
None	75%	3

Top reported side-effects include: if taken on empty stomach there will be some nausea

Summary results are based on 4 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 4)

jmscout

Sensation: None

Overall: Mild

Cognition: moderate

Vision: none

Speech: none

Swallowing: none

Upper limb: moderate

Walking: moderate

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by jmscout
Sep 17, 2008