If anyone on our forum has chronic illness then please look into using LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone). It has worked wonders for some people, but failed to work in others. People usually start on a low dose i.e. 0.5mg or 1mg taken at night (after 9pm). It is sold as Naltrexone which is a 50mg tablet. NEVER TAKE THIS WHOLE TABLET! You place the tablet into 50ml distilled water in an amber glass bottle. Wait until it dissolves. Give it a good shake. Take your dose using a syringe. Over time people increase their dose. Different doses for different folks, but people tend to never exceed 4.5mg. NEVER EXCEED THIS DOSE WITHOUT SOME GUIDANCE.
LDN has nothing to do with 'Naltrexone'. If you see the word 'Naltrexone' this is referring to the whole 50mg tablet. If you see LDN, then it's referring to the low-dose-Naltrexone i.e. a fraction of the 50mg dose, either from dissolving the tablet or getting a pharmacy to compound it for you.
LDN was used to stop drug addicts and alcoholics from their habits. It wasn't very successful, as addicts didn't wish to stop, and the drug had some side effects. It works by blocking the opioid receptors, so if you take 50mg which is fucking huge dose, you feel no pleasure. What addict wants that? However, if you take the very tiny doses (never ever ever more than 4.5mg), then you DO block your opioid receptors, but for a very short time. This then causes the body to make tons of lovely endorphins which appear to regulate the immune system.
Hence why LDN has such far-reaching applications, and can bring great relief to a wide variety of problems. It is very popular for MS and cancer sufferers, but if you have an illness whose name end in -itis, then it's your lucky day. -itis is a suffix meaning inflammation. Fibromyalgia patients do very well on it too. :) In the small doses it arrests rapid cell growth, but in large doses it increases it. Hence if someone has cancer for example, the last thing you would want to do is have any kind of high dose of LDN.
Please read and expand your awareness of this substance, and above all, use it correctly!!!!
Best websites, but there are heaps of anecdotal reports about this drug. But these are the official ones which contain a lot of very good info.
http://www.ldnscience.org/
http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/
http://www.ldnresearchtrust.org/
Dosing:
Diseases which it's effective for:
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What diseases has it been useful for and how effective is it?
> Bernard Bihari, MD, as well as other physicians and researchers, have described beneficial effects of LDN on a variety of diseases:
Cancers
Bladder Cancer
Breast Cancer
Carcinoid
Colon & Rectal Cancer
Glioblastoma
Liver Cancer
Lung Cancer (Non-Small Cell)
Lymphocytic Leukemia (chronic)
Lymphoma (Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's)
Malignant Melanoma
Multiple Myeloma
Neuroblastoma
Ovarian Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Prostate Cancer (untreated)
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Throat Cancer
Uterine Cancer
Other Diseases
Common Colds (URI’s)
Emphysema (COPD)
HIV/AIDS
Depression (Major; and Bipolar)
Autoimmune
Neurodegenerative:
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Alzheimer's Disease
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Parkinson's Disease
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ⇒
Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Transverse Myelitis
Other Autoimmune Diseases:
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Behcet's Disease
Celiac Disease
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
CREST syndrome
Crohn's Disease
Dermatomyositis
Dystonia
Endometriosis
Fibromyalgia
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
Nephrotic Syndrome
Pemphigoid
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Psoriasis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Scleroderma
Sjogren’s Syndrome
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)
Systemic Lupus (SLE)
Ulcerative Colitis
Wegener's Granulomatosis
Please also see the work of Zagon, and another guy called Berkson. :)