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Diane from Canada shares her Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and Multiple Sclerosis story.
I was very active socially and at work. I was actually a hotel sales manager, and that kept me on the road quite a bit. So I was very active.
One day, in a meeting at work, I was making some notes, and everything came up as scribble.
I couldn't write my name. I couldn't spell D I A N E period. So I immediately went off to the hospital. I was seeing the Neurologist beforehand because I had one night double vision in my eyes, and they were doing some testing on me.
Anyways, I went to the hospital and they diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis. It was devastating. He sent me home and told me to come back and see him if any changes happened.
So, all of a sudden I couldn't lift my right leg and my speech was totally slurred. So my mom rushed me back to the hospital, and then I hadn't eaten anything but I was throwing up, I shook the bed, and I throw up, and I was doing this for a full day until the point where they were saying to my mother that I would never make it for the night.
And by the morning, everything just settled down. My symptoms were still the same so I was there for a week. When they sent me home, they said I would have to order a wheelchair for me.
So I went home. We're a Christian family so my mother took me to the church. The missionaries prayed over me, and they were there for a few hours while I forget I had this really weird feeling afterwards.
The following week I left from this whole wheelchair-bound and going back to work in the hotel and being active.
And 14 years later I kept falling. I had really pushed myself to the max. And one day I tripped on the concrete and bang my back, my spine against this concrete wall and then thereafter I found I couldn't keep my balance and I got a call on my cell phone. I had a muscle spasm that lasted three weeks so I was bedridden.
Doctors took me off work. So I've been off work since 2001.
Because I am a computer savvy, I went on to the MS Resource Centre, and I was reading up different things and I found about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). So I looked further into it and then I noticed they had a pharmacy in Toronto.
And so he wrote me the prescription. That was November 2010.
I have been ok. I had to use a walker outside and inside and got a scooter now. And then I would say January, I was able to go upstairs.
I went upstairs, went to bed. In the morning when I woke up, I opened the door and looked, and there was no walker. The walker was all the way down to the entrance.
And I got up and started to walk. I was so happy. It has given me a little bit of strength in my mind. I have had problems with my bladder. My bladder is totally controlled and I don't take any bladder medications.
Fatigue is still there. I didn't have side effects from LDN except that I couldn't sleep right.
Summary from Diane's interview. Listen to the video for the full story.