Banish bursitis once and for all Q: I have bursitis in my shoulder. My doctor prescribed me some medication for it, and it helped for awhile, but when I stopped taking it the pain came back. Is there anything that will get rid of it for good? Dr. Wright: Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Irving S. Klemes discovered that the best treatment for bursitis pain is vitamin B12. Nothing has come close to it since then. When Dr. Klemes treated 40 individuals with acute subdeltoid bursitis with vitamin B12 shots, he found that they almost all experienced rapid pain relief -- in some cases starting in just a few hours -- and that complete relief was often achieved within a few days. All but three individuals were completely pain free within two to three weeks. Dr. Klemes recommended that vitamin B12 (1cc, 1,000 micrograms) be given by injection every day for a week, then tapered to three times weekly, then to twice weekly, and then to once weekly until the pain was completely gone. Early on, I asked bursitis sufferers to follow these instructions exactly. Later, I discovered that taking 2 ccs of vitamin B12 every day until the pain went away-with no tapering-worked even better. In the 33 years I've been recommending vitamin B12 treatment, I've only seen it fail to relieve bursitis pain once. In every other case -- even ones with the worst pain and swelling -- vitamin B12 injections have always taken care of the problem. Source:
"Vitamin B12 in acute subdeltoid bursitis." Industrial Medicine & Surgery 1957; 26:290-292. | 
