Vitamin B12 Injection Treatment Report
What is Vitamin B12 Injection?
Vitamin B-12 via intramuscular or deep subcutaneous injection is used to treat pernicious anemia; dietary deficiencies due to malabsorption diseases, inadequate secretion of intrinsic factor, and inadequate utilization; for increased requirements due to pregnancy.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Fatigue | 41 |
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| Other | 20 |
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| General health | 16 |
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| low B12 level | 13 |
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| Anemia | 7 |
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| Slow my MS progress | 6 | 0 |
See all 106 patients currently taking Vitamin B12 Injection
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Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Vitamin B12 Injection. See all 44 dosages ►
| 1000mcg/mL as needed | 100mcg/mL as needed | 150mcg as needed | 1 mg as needed | 25mg as needed | 500mg as needed | monthly | weekly | 0.1 mg weekly | 1 g monthly | 1 mcg monthly | 1 mg monthly | 1 mL monthly | 1 monthly | 0.05 mg daily | 2 mg monthly | 1 mg every other week | 1 mg weekly | 1 mL weekly | 1 other weekly | 1 weekly | 5 mg monthly | 2 mg weekly | 3 mg weekly | 1 mg daily | 1 mg one time | 20 mg every other week | 5 mg daily | 100 mg every other week | 100 mL every other week | 100 mg weekly | 500 mcg/0.1 mL monthly | 1000 mcg monthly | 1000 mg monthly | 1000 mL monthly | 1000 mcg every other week | 500 mg weekly | 100 mg daily | 1000 mcg weekly | 1000 mg weekly | 250 mcg daily | 1000 mcg daily | 1000 mg daily | 10000 mg weekly | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Course of treatment ended
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8 | 32% |
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Other
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7 | 28% |
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Doctor's advice
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5 | 20% |
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Did not seem to work
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4 | 16% |
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Expense
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2 | 8% |
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Personal research
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2 | 8% |
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See all 23 patients who’ve stopped taking Vitamin B12 Injection
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- francesca
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- francesca
- 1000mcg/mL as needed
- since Aug 23, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Fatigue
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Side Effects
None
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- Kathie MS FEB 2002
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Kathie MS FEB 2002
- 250 mcg daily
- since Oct 21, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for General health
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Side Effects
None
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- craftygranny
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Severe
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
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- craftygranny
- 100 mg weekly
- since Oct 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Fatigue
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips I stopped taking it when I started on the Copaxone, my Dr. sure if there would be a conflict between the B-12, LDN, also gama globulin shots. I felt great o... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.