On my last neuro appt, the nurse asked me if I had started taking any vitamins or supplements, and I stated no. My neuro never has mentioned to me that I should be taking anything.

Does anyone take any vitamins or supplements? I have some B12 tabs, and wondering if I should be taking them or not. Ive never been a big pill popper. I hate taking pills. I fight with myself just to take my baclofen and amitriptyline.

Does taking vitamins and supplements really help? Or is it just something to make us FEEL like we're doing something to help.

I take a multi-vitamin specific for women over 50, Vitamin D3, B12, Krill Oil, and my necessary meds for HBP and thyroid. I just fix a weeks worth in my little pill dispenser and it's just an automatic thing I do each day.

I can't take drugs for every symptom, because I am drug-sensitive to many drugs (not all).Instead of Baclofen I take Magnesium, Calcium, and Vitamin D3. Is amytriptalene Elavil? It gave me temporary paralysis on the beach, even though it helped pain.

I take 250 mg non-flush Niacin a day to avoid vascular troubles such as fuzzy eyes. It has helped over many years.

I take a One-a-day without Iron, which is relatively low dose as it is all "food" and not synthetic. Some synthetics could be fine, but this one agrees with me. "Megafoods Without Iron".

I take an enzyme with meals to help digest fat, protein, and carbs. I take Lutein Eyes to keep from macular degeneration, and I have no macular degeneration even though both parents had it at ages younger than I am. I take Vitamin E complex, which may help with many things but specifically it helps me not to have jerky or spastic legs at night. B1 at night also helps to stop jerks and spasm. I've had to add things over the years. I would not be having a night's sleep without my supplements.

That's most of what I take.

I have a well educated friend in the health profession who is bugging me about checking into supplements etc. for MS and while I'm not big on skipping pharmacology for holistic treatments I would certainly think about using it to augment my medication regimen.

Right now in addition to Copaxone I take a multi vitamin daily, occasional fish oil capsule and 50,000 IU of vitamin D once a week that my neuro prescribed. I'll keep you posted if my friend comes up with anything interesting.

Kittylady, my guess is the nurse asked about them as a basic assessment just to make sure you weren't taking anything that would interact with other medications.

The D2 on RX from doctors doesn't work. And they don't know this yet.

I have information about that on the D thread on our Vitamin forum.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread92116.html
If you know your D test results, the average rule is 1000 IU D3 OTC for every 10 points you need to raise. So you will need to know you goal as well.

My MS Center checked our Vit D levels a couple of years ago. Mine was in the normal range but I was on D3. They told me to keep taking it and haven't tested it again.

ANN