Todd’s Experience With DMSO and Suspected ALS

Right after I started the IVs back in December was that all was-- I mean, my brain was... It, it, it, it, it-- I, I, I felt like it was clearer. Like it was-- Like, thoughts came very easy. I didn't have to search for words.

I didn't have to search for, um, names. I didn't have to search for different things and, and, and go, "What was that?

What was that?" I just-- It, it's amazing how clear, after I got the IV DMSO, my brain was again.

After we got done with the exam, he, he, he looked at me, and he, um, he sat down with me and after the exam, and he goes, "Look, I would never tell somebody this on their first visit.

I think you have a, a motor neuron issue, and, um, and I think it's ALS." And especially last winter, um, I started going downhill and started having lots of breathing issues.

Um, I was, uh-- It would happen during the day, but the worst was at night, where I would find that, um, my, uh, breathing in the middle of the night, I'd wake up five, ten times a night it seemed like, um, in a complete panic as though I was drowning,

um, as if my diaphragm had just stopped and, and wasn't moving my lungs anymore.

And, and at times, I'd have to force myself to exhale before I could inhale. Last winter, I thought I was actually on the way downhill. In fact, we actually ordered a wheelchair.

"Do you ever use DMSO intravenously on an animal?"

And, uh, she said, "Yes, uh, I do." And I said, "Well, when would you do that?" And she said, "Well, if I had an animal that was down and couldn't get up, um, and it had a severe neurological problem."

And I stopped her right there, and I go, "Severe neurological problem and can't get up." I said, "That sounds an awful lot like ALS." And she says, "Yeah, it kinda does." I said, "Well..." I said, "So you give it intravenously." I said, "Does it work?" And she goes, "Yeah,

many times it does. Many times I can get the horse up on its feet or the animal.

I can get it on its feet and start working with it and start treating it." And I said, "Well, that's amazing." I said, "So we're using that for a severe neurological problem, uh, on an animal that can't get up, but we're not doing this for humans?" And she said, "Yeah." So I thought, "Well, let's try putting the DMSO on my

spine. Let's see if my spinal issues could have something to do with, with this." And the thing that I found that was amazing was that within three days of s- of doing that, those, uh, episodes of waking up like I was drowning completely stopped. I started sleeping better. I started feeling better.

I started getting strength back in my arms.

I actually was able to pull the trusses across the road, you know, so thirty feet across the road to where the, the, the crane could pick them up, and each of those trusses weighed three hundred and forty pounds.

And I, and I, I told my wife that that night, I'm like, "I, I can't believe it. It's the first time in years that I've felt my muscles work correctly in my arms." It showed that I had gone from spending ninety percent of the night, um, with my oxygen levels at eighty-nine or below to only forty-two percent of the night.

And my longest episode had gone from thirteen minutes down to four minutes, and the number of episodes had greatly decreased.

I stopped using the DMSO on the thirty-first of October.

I didn't tell my wife. I didn't tell anybody what I was doing.

The, the weakness in the legs and the arms started coming back.

Uh, I, I, I noticed, uh, I was-- my endurance was dropping off. Um, I, I had-- I, I just-- I had no energy. My wife, um, she came up and asked me, and she said, she said, "Todd, it, it doesn't seem like the, the DMSO is working."

And, um, she goes, "You're, you're, you're not doing well. I don't understand.

What happened?" Within that first twenty-four hours after using the DMSO, I was amazed at how much better I was feeling.

Um, and then over the next week, things just started to-- kept getting better and better and better.

For the past ten years, one of the things that I, I, I, I noticed when all this all started was the issues with my legs. They felt like wet noodles.

They felt like they didn't have strength.

And I, I, I called it my jelly legs. And even applying the topical DMSO, I never got rid of the jelly legs.

Uh, I mean, there was improvements, but I never got rid of it.

Um, but with the IV DMSO, it went away. I, I-- They felt stronger than they'd felt in ten years. And I sat down on his table, and I said, "Doc, check my reflexes." He just looked at me, and he goes, "Okay."

He walked over, and he, he, he checked the reflex, uh, at my, at my right knee, and, um, and it barely moved.

It hasn't done that in years. And he looked at me, and he goes, "Todd, that was almost normal." I cannot describe enough the difference between, um, the way I was yesterday morning before I went and got the IV and then yesterday evening and then even today, um, and how, how much clearer and articulate my brain is. Um, it's,

it's, it's amazing to me. And, and, and literally how much better I feel, how much better I can talk, how much better I can breathe, especially the breathing.