Margaret Thompson

Every day you wait is a day you lose.

I don't give a F*CK if my neurologist sees this. I threw my prescription in the trash three days after she wrote it. Here is what I did instead, and why my MS is better today than it was ten years ago. I'm Margaret. I've been an infusion nurse for 31 years, the last 14 running MS infusions. I've watched hundreds of patients come back year after year with clean scans and a cane. The medication was doing its job. No new attacks. But the patients were still getting worse. That is the truth no neurologist says out loud: stopping the attack isn't the same as healing the damage. MS is a repair failure. Every nerve is wrapped in a protective coating called myelin. MS strips it off. Normally your body rebuilds it. In MS, it doesn't, because rebuilding takes raw material and an enormous amount of energy, and your nerves are starved of both. The coating gets thinner every year. The signals get slower. And an MRI can't see any of it until it shows up as a brand new lesion. I knew all of this. So when my own timed walk went from 6.2 seconds to 9.4 over four years, with zero new lesions, I knew exactly what was coming. "Let's start you on amantadine for the fatigue." I nodded. Took the prescription. Threw it in the garbage three days later. Amantadine doesn't repair anything. It forces an exhausted nervous system to run harder for a few hours. For three years I tried everything else. Wahls. Gut repair. 5,000 IU of vitamin D. Physical therapy twice a week. Cooling vest, yoga, no gluten, no wine. My walk improved to 8.8. My fatigue score went from 62 to 55. Better. Nowhere near good enough. I was still fog by 2 PM. Still awake at 3 AM with my feet burning. The breaking point was my husband finding me crying on the bathroom floor because I could not get back up after the stairs. "Just take the damn amantadine," he said. "I can't. I've watched what it does." Then one of my regulars changed everything. Mr. Alvarez, 61, relapsing MS, nine years in. His timed walk was 11 seconds when he first came to us. He needed a cane for anything longer than a hallway. That morning he walked in without it and sat down without using his arms. His walk: 6.4 seconds. "What changed?" "My daughter found these nerve vitamins you take as drops under your tongue. Three months. The cane is gone. My feet stopped burning. My neurologist told me to keep doing whatever I'm doing." At 2:47 AM I opened my laptop. I found the neurotropic vitamins: active forms of B1, B6 and B12. Not grocery store vitamins. Neurotropic means they act on nerve tissue. In Japan they've been the standard for nerve damage for decades, often given by injection. B12 is the raw material your body rebuilds myelin from. B1 is the energy your nerve cells run on. B6 is what they need to send a clean signal. Material. Energy. Signal. The three things my repair system had been missing. I ordered a $12.99 B complex off Amazon first. Two weeks later, nothing. Same walk, same 3 AM burning. I almost gave up. Then I called Mr. Alvarez and asked for the exact brand. Day four on the new one, I slept through the night. Day nine, no 2 PM crash. Week three, I timed my walk in the clinic hallway: 7.1. I ran it three times because I didn't believe it. Week six: 6.4. Week ten: 5.9. Three months later I handed my neurologist my own numbers. She read them for a long time. "Your MRI hasn't changed. But your walk is faster than your baseline four years ago. Your nerves are conducting again. Keep doing exactly what you're doing." That was seven months ago. My walk is between 5.6 and 6 seconds. My fatigue score is 21. I feel the way I did ten years ago. Here is what I need you to understand. The cheap bottle did nothing, and most B vitamins fail for two reasons. First, the forms. Cyanocobalamin instead of methylcobalamin. Pyridoxine instead of P5P. Your body can barely use them. And cheap B6 at the 100 mg pharmacies sell can cause nerve damage of its own. The safe requirement is one to three. Second, the delivery. A tablet has to survive your stomach, and after 50, with metformin or acid reducers in the mix, very little B12 gets through. Your blood test looks "normal." Your nerves are still starving. Under the tongue is the key. Hold the drops there for 60 seconds and they go straight into your bloodstream. No stomach, no gut, no interference. The same reason Japan injects them, without the needle. The formula Mr. Alvarez told me about, and the one I switched to, is Stedman 5 in 1 Nerve Protection Complex. 5,000 mcg of active methylcobalamin. Thiamine at a clinical dose. B6 as P5P, kept where it is safe. Plus folate and B3 so your body can actually use it. Every ingredient in its active form, in drops you hold under your tongue. I'm not anti medication. I run an infusion clinic. Keep taking your DMT. It stops the attacks. It was never designed to repair what the attacks leave behind. If your scans say stable but you are slower on your feet, dropping things, and done by 2 PM... give this 90 days. I told six of my own MS patients. It worked for five of them. I just ordered another three month supply. I am never going back. P.S. Three things I wish I'd known: One and a half droppers under the tongue every morning. Don't swap in a cheaper brand, I wasted two weeks proving the forms are not comparable. Sleep improves first, usually within a week. Energy around week two. Steadier legs and better grip between weeks four and eight. Deep repair takes 8 to 12 weeks. 90 day money back guarantee, no questions asked. If nothing improves, you pay nothing. Don't stop your meds. This is in addition to your DMT, not instead of it. ~ Margaret M., RN, MS infusion clinic, 31 years I reached out to the company so I could share this with my patients. The full breakdown of how it works is here: https://trystedman.com/pages/ms-news