LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Diana - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: Today. We're joined by Diana from United Kingdom who takes LDN for primary progressive MS. Thanks for joining me, Diana.

Diana: Okay.

Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us when you first noticed that there was something wrong with you?

Diana: Yes, it was January 2010. I had gone to pick my daughter up from, uh, from the airport. My husband had driven, I was in the passenger seat, and I went to get out, and my left leg wouldn't move properly.

And I thought. It's a crime or something where it started dragging. Um, and it sort of didn't really recover much. Um, so I'll store a doctor who said, I need to see a physio. And I saw the physio who said, this is not for me. It's neurological, which was good that he sort of spotted that. So it was about. February 2010, when I saw a neurologist whose aim said, right, we're going to give you some, an MMR MRI, which they did from my waist down. And I come back, and they said they couldn't see anything. I was still having problems.

So, um, then I went and saw another. A neurologist who's at the same hospital who said, right, we're going to give you another MRI, which they did from the neck down.

And nothing really showed set for the usual wear and tore on the back. And then they said, no, you need another MRI, which was on the brain. And that's when they said, Oh, you've got lesions on your brain. And I've got the letters telling me I had the million station, which I'd not heard of myelination yet.

Thank you. And, um, obviously they said, Oh, well, that's MS. Multiple sclerosis. And I was like. It's really weird. Cause I didn't know about it, but you talk to everybody else. And I do as soon as they say MS. Um, so then they, um, said to Cruz it, we need to give you a, a lumber punch. So this is by now June 2010.

So I had around with punch, and they said, yes, it's definitely MS. And then they asked me about the history previous to, to, you know, um, my diagnosis. And it turned out that I possibly had it for years because back in 1982. I was having problems where I was like, told me I had temporal lobe, epilepsy.

I never had a fit, but I used to, um, Get these really weird sensations where I couldn't speak properly, and my stomach would blow. And I couldn't cope. I had two children by then, and I was under the London hospital, neurology hospital up in Holborn, and they told me I temporal lobe epilepsy and put me on phenytoin.

And then I had to come up with that. Cause I fell pregnant with my daughter in 1984 and went on to take her child, which I stayed on for quite a few years. Cause I still was insisting. That's probably what it was. And then I went back in about a couple of years after my daughter was born and saw another person up there who said, Oh no, you've got stomach migraine.

Come straight off the Tegreto. So I did. And between 86 I had a few episodes of, um, this, this sensation where, uh, I couldn't cope my, uh, Functioning my eyes go funny. My words were slow and everything. And because I just thought of, they've told me what it is.

I'm not going back down that route. I just put up with it, but it was every so many months. It wasn't all the time until 2010. Obviously when this thing with my leg happened, and I was getting the weird sensations where it felt like I was having. Bits of Woodward attaching themselves to me. And I was having running water was all running down my leg and my, my feet as they still are now totally numb.

And he just carried on from there. Really. And so they, first of all, they said, I had relapsing-remitting, MS. They put me on Gabapentin and, um, But every time I went back, that's what they told me the first time it was relapsing-remitting. And then when I went back and thought and urologist, I think it was about three months later, they said, no, you're not relapsing-remitting.

Cause it hadn't gone away. Your primary progressive. And then I decided, they said that I should take this Rebif, you know, where you inject yourself, which I. So, well, if it's going to help, I will try anything. I don't like this. This is awful. Or, cause I couldn't was beginning to not function. I put grandchildren.

And so I did the Rebif. I did it for two weeks. It was terrible. I was so ill on it. Plus the fact I bruised everywhere, but I just had, they said you might get flu-like symptoms. And that's what I constantly had. The whole two weeks, I was really ill. I said I'm not doing that. And then I said, well, you don't.

And then when I went back again, she said, we shouldn't have been put on it because you've got primary progressive MS. And it's not going to help anyway. So she shrugged us older by then. I'd met up with some other MSP people. And one of them said to me, Have you heard of LDN? I said, Nope. What is it? She said I take it.

I found it very beneficial. I, once again, I went to my doctor who said, no, you can't have it because it's not licensed here. So I said, well, I'm going to have it. She gets it. So I pay for it from Dixon's. Is it Dickenson's the chemist in Scotland? Yeah. And, um, From that day. Uh, I can't, uh, I still have my moment, obviously.

I'm still constantly got this, uh, with my legs, numb and date, and I can't walk very far, but it's allowed me to keep working, and I do work three days a week. I teach adults. Um, with, uh, Mental illness and that it, but I can get up and I can do my job three days a week. And, uh, being able to look after my grandchildren, the only thing I will say I did, um, uh, I started, um, I started off at 1.5, and I was on three milligrams.

I was finding that I was having really bad episodes. Um, if I was taking it every day, I don't know if this makes sense to anybody. So I, I cut it down, that what I do now, I take, and also I better, if I take it in the morning, I've been doing little tests on myself, and I found that what has worked for me now, I take one every other day at seven o'clock in the morning, three milligrams.

And that has worked for me. Better than if I was taking it every day. Um, but, and, uh, I, I don't take anything else now because I've also gone. I don't know if this is simply through this, but I've also gone down the homoeopathic home route. So I only take Gabapentin and LDN now. And, um, Touchwood feeling a lot better than I have done for ages.

Um, in myself, my MS. I still struggle. I couldn't say I could. I still do. I use the stick. Um, and I couldn't walk from one into my high street to the other. I haven't, I can only do one shop at a time, but mentally and more focused on. I do feel this is the inner ODM. And I'll tell you why as well because I did come off its two weeks because I wasn't, well, I had a virus and all, so I wasn't functioning very well.

I come off of it, and I felt the fatigue was terrible. And the, so I do feel as soon as I went back on it, the fatigue is a lot better, a lot better.

Linda Elsegood: Well, that's a good result.

Diana: It is a good result. And, um, And the other friend that takes it to sort of at my stage a little bit further on with RMS, actually, she's a bit older than me.

And she said it's a longer, she, she also swears by it. And, uh, she wouldn't, she only takes that and has a painting and a couple of other things she's taken, but I don't know what they are, but for her. Um, you know, I'm glad I found it, and I've recommended it to other people.

Linda Elsegood: I was a very good story.

Diana: Oh yeah. Um, I just wish that all those years ago that maybe somebody had, I don't know because there are no cure forms. There's no answer. They don't know what the cause is. So I don't know. I don't know where it Roy, where, but if there is something that LDL in that can help here, I'm going to stick with it.

And I sit really in the home. You've passed that on. I think that's a lot of mind over matter. I don't care from feeling better. I don't care. I'll try anything.

Linda Elsegood: What would you say to other people with primary progressive ms. Who is thinking of trying

Diana: LDN? Oh yeah, definitely. They've got to try it. I've got to try it.

I mean, my friend gets hers. Her doctor gives her hers. My mom point blank refuses, you know? But then he didn't want to give me LDN cause it was going to cost him 10 pounds a month. So why would he pay for LDN if he doesn't have to? You've got, you know, you've got every right to say, you know, it's not licensed, so we can't give it to you.

Yes, fortunately,

Linda Elsegood: thank you very much for sharing your story with us. I really do appreciate it, Diana.

Any questions or comments you may have, please Contact Us.  I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciated your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.

Di - Australia: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Di from Australia has multiple sclerosis (MS). She started receiving symptoms in 1996, where she had vision problems, stress of her sick mother could have potentially played a part. Di had blurred vision in one eye. She was gradually diagnosed with optic neuritis, which she started taking steroids. For the next 17 years she felt rather well with no symptoms. In the year of 2005, Di had noticed problems with walking. Where she had progressed to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Symptoms include tingling and facial numbness, pins and needles, as well as awkwardness in her right side and right leg.

Di was prescribed with Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) three years ago, she started noticing changes after one month. Recent symptoms included urinary problems. The tingling, the pain, the needles, and numbness all resolved, where she now feels more stabilized.

Overall, Di recommends Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and found our website helpful when researching. 

Please play the video to listen to the full story. 

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us.

Derek - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Derek from England shares their Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Derek first noticed his Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms in 2001 when he had a lot of pain his left leg meaning he had developed a serious limp. He wasn’t diagnosed until a year after, when his neurologist informed him that he probably had been undiagnosed with MS for over 20 years.

Derek’s fatigue began to settle in but luckily he came across Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) swiftly meaning his symptoms didn’t develop much further. He recommends LDN thoroughly to all those who are intrigued.

This is a summary of Derek’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Derek’s story by clicking on the video above.

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Denny - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Denny from England shares her experience of LDN for multiple sclerosis.

She was diagnosed in 98 after a car crash where they found scars on her brain. She first heard about LDN through facebook groups and she decided to give it a try, before LDN she would sleep all day.

She felt like her life was getting stripped away. After taking LDN her life has improved, she is now able to stay awake and work on a novel.

 

To listen to the full interview play the video.

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us. I look forward to hearing from you. 

Denise - US: Behçet's Disease (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: Today we are joined by Denise from the United States who's a holistic health practitioner. Denise and her daughter both take LDN for Behçet's Disease. Thanks for joining us, Denise. 

Denise: Thank you for having me. 

Linda Elsegood: First of all, would you like to tell us about your story with LDN? 

Denise: It actually started back in 2008. Well, it started before then, but I was unable to find a doctor who was willing to treat my symptoms until 2008. Back in the late eighties, I was diagnosed at Duke Medical Center here in the United States, as having chronic fatigue syndrome. And at that time they just said, well, go home, there's nothing we can do for you. I was in high school. I was exhausted. I was aching all over. I had mild fevers that would kind of come and go. I was not myself. I couldn't remember things. My grades were falling. It was very unhelpful to be told, well, we know you have something, but we can't help you. So I would just go to school. I would drag myself there. I would get through my day as best I could. I tried explaining to my teachers what was going on, that I didn't understand where it came from, but that I had chronic fatigue and that meant more than just being tired all the time. That it made it really hard to recall information.

So as I said, my grades started dropping. I was doing quite poorly in high school. In fact, I had a counsellor in high school when I went to look at colleges who said, well, you know, I wouldn't look too terribly hard, your grades aren't very good. And I was very disheartened because I had always wanted to work in medicine and. So I did the best that I could. My mom started taking over my chores so that I didn't have to do as much around the house. She didn't ride me as hard about my grades because she understood that I had a doctor's note that said something is wrong with me, but we can't do anything.

And I slept most of my free time. I would come home from school, I would eat something, and I would go to sleep, and I'd wake up the next morning, and it was time to go to school again. That went on for years, and in around 2008, I was able to find a doctor, Dr Webster who - believe it or not - I found his name because he was a doctor that Suzanne Somers had worked with. And I had read one of her books. And I thought, well, if there's somebody out there who's willing to listen, I'm willing to give him a try, and I met with him. He was an ER doctor who was now working in his own practice, and he was very familiar with chronic fatigue syndrome.

At that time, I was only familiar with allopathic or traditional medicine and didn't have any experience with anything outside of that, anything nontraditional. So he started doing some tests on me, and looking at my energy levels, and just doing some kind of things that at the time I thought were very odd. But I went, hey, you know, this guy says he can help me, so I'm going to give it a try. And then he wrote out a couple of prescriptions, and he said, go take these, and I'll see you back in a couple of months, and we'll see how you're doing. So I went to have them filled. Well first I took them to a regular pharmacy, and they couldn't fill it. And I thought, Oh boy, what is this? And they pointed me to a compounding pharmacy. I wasn't even very familiar with them at that point. And they filled it, and they kind of had that look on their face that says, Oh dear, we see something's really wrong with you, and you're going to take this medicine, and you're probably going to have to take it for the rest of your life. And that kind of scared me because I hadn't had any experience with taking something my whole life because I thought that's just something reserved for the very, very sick or those who are very advanced in age. And it felt very frightening to me too, to be in my twenties and be told I was going to be on something possibly for the rest of my life.

But I had my prescription filled, and I took it just like they said. And I started feeling better, but not right away. It took some time for me, and unfortunately, by the time I started feeling better, that doctor moved to another state. So I had a large lapse in taking the LDN because I couldn't find another doctor who would prescribe it.

They didn't know what it was. They weren't willing to go on the fact that I had taken it in the past. 

So I went for several years without taking it, and that was a huge uphill battle at that point. I could feel what it had done for me, even though at the time it didn't feel dramatic. It wasn't like an overnight, where you take this pill and the next day you're all better. It was a gradual kind of thing. But once it was gone, I really noticed it. I was able to find another doctor about a year and a half ago who allowed me to go back on it. And I have been so blessed by this particular substance, low dose naltrexone. It has really enabled me to live a more normal life.

I'm a mother of five kids. I am a holistic health practitioner. I have a concierge service. I'm a mom and I do a lot of reading and research, and when I'm able to get my medicine as I have been, I can retain information. I feel like myself, again, I know what's going on with my body, I understand better, I feel I'm a lot more in tune, I sleep better, I've been able to cut my asthma medication in half without having any side effects. 

I was diagnosed with dry eye, and when I started taking LDN again, after a couple of months, I noticed that was better. I use eye drops, just a regular over-the-counter kind of a tear replacement once in the morning, and that's it. My eyes stay fine through the rest of the day. It's really perfect. I have noticed my interleukin six markers have come hugely down. It has been wonderful. The inflammation in my body has been decreased to the point that I don't think most people would even know that I have chronic fatigue syndrome because it's in remission. I can stay awake all day long. I no longer need to take naps. It has really been hugely beneficial to my family and me.

Linda Elsegood: Well, that is absolutely great. You were telling me beforehand that it was difficult to get LDN prescribed for your daughter. How old was she when she got sick? 

Denise: Let's see. She's 14 now, and I guess it started when she was around 10 or 11, with the onset of Behçet's Disease. There are symptoms with it that are unpleasant and uncomfortable to talk about, quite honestly. I presented with a lot of mouth sores, ulcerations that were quite painful, and they looked like lesions in my mouth, and they would open up and bleed, and I would have recurrences of these.

I mean, we're talking on your tongue, on your gums. In your cheeks, upper and lower gums and it just made it incredibly painful to eat. And my dad had that, and when I was a kid, I remember he used to use silver nitrate sticks, and we'd go to the dentist, and the dentist would just take a silver nitrate stick - if you can imagine putting that poison in your mouth today, right? He would just burn them off,  and that brought such relief because these alterations would go away. 

Unfortunately with Behçet's Disease, there are other ulcerations that can occur,  such as in the genital area. So it's very difficult for kids to talk about that - if all of a sudden it hurts when they go to use the restroom - they don't want to tell a teacher or their parents. They don't even want to tell their doctor about it because they don't know what it is. It can be very frightening. Well, my daughter presented with those ulcerations, as opposed to having them in her mouth She would get a few mouth sores, but her main area where she was bothered was in the genital region, and none of our doctors believed that they knew what we had, and they kind of went, well, we can test these ulcers. Testing them means taking a sterile Q-tip and putting it in the painful ulceration to get a sample, and trying to take a child who was prepubescent, and not accustomed to having their doctor look in that particular area of their body, was humiliating for her. And it was very hard for me as her mom, even though I understood that they had to, as a process of exclusion, rather than going, Oh, we know what this is. First, they say, well, it's not—the X, Y, or Z. So they had to rule things out, and it was really hard to look at her and tell her this is for her own good when I knew it was very, very painful for her.

She also presented with joint pain, which is very, very common. I myself also have fibromyalgia, which is a kind of a pain syndrome throughout the body. So I understood when she said her fingers are really stiff. It would become very difficult for her to be able to write. She's a prolific writer and very gifted, but holding the pen would hurt after just a short period of time because of the inflammation that was going on within her joints. It’s one of the problems of Behçet's Disease. They tested, they kept saying, we don't know what this is. They would send off samples to various labs around the state, and everybody said, we don't know what this is. 

They ended up putting her on steroids. She was on prednisone for a couple of months, which is not pleasant. It created anxiety and sleeplessness, and problems. That was just really uncomfortable for her. It was uncomfortable as her mom, just to watch that. And I knew that it was an immune system dysfunction. And I knew from my own research that the only thing that I could find besides vitamin D, which we found to be exceptionally low in her at that point, was the LDN. 

The path that I wanted to at least try was LDN, knowing that there were little to no side effects with LDN,. I thought we really didn't have a lot to lose, and I did not like the idea of her being constantly on antibiotics because of course, if the doctor didn't know what it was, they kept throwing out steroids and antibiotics, and she kept having these problems, and I thought, she can't live like this. You just physically can't, your body can't take that. So I was able to find a friend of mine who is a paediatrician, and she specializes in functional medicine. And even then, it took me over two years of having my daughter go through these painful cycles of ulcerations before I could get that doctor whom I knew personally to write her a prescription for LDN. I had to just pretty much beg her. I said, look, I know you've written it for other kids because she also happens to work with a lot of kids on the autism spectrum, and I was trying to convince her, and this was before the book, so I was trying to convince her that, hey. I can't tell you exactly how it works, but I believe in my heart that this works on a really deep level of the immune system and allows the body to help itself.

And can we please try this? Because I can't keep watching my child deteriorate. And it was only after persistence. And I mean, I would show up at her office on a weekly basis, and I would say, you're going to keep seeing me until you at least let us try this. We got my daughter on it. She's been on it now just about a year, and it took probably about four months for her to find the full effect of it. It was so amazing that at about ten months into it, my daughter had not had any ulcerations anywhere. Her joint pain was gone. She was able to ride a bicycle and run and play and function as all of her friends. 

She was feeling so good that she decided to go off of the LDN because she thought she was cured. Unfortunately, she didn't tell her mother had. I had no idea this was going on. About four weeks later, the ulcerations started again, and she didn't tell me right away, but waited a couple of weeks and then she came to me, and she said, something's wrong. It's come back. And I, at that point was confused, and said, wait a minute, you're taking your medicine, right? Oh yeah, I'm taking it, she said, so then I went to her room and counted the little capsules. And I found out she had stopped taking it, and I said, honey, you know, why did you stop taking it? And she said I thought I was cured because I felt normal. I felt like myself. I could do things like everybody else. And once that happened to her, that was a huge wake-up call. And so she has been on it and is back on it. And does not ever plan to go off of it again, because it allowed her to have a normal life and to not be looked at with that kind of pity book. You know, people mean well, but they give you this look that kind of goes, oh, I feel so sorry for you. And while that's kind, it's not helpful. It was tough getting the medicine for her, but now that she is on it, we are not going back, either one of us, because it has made that big of a difference in our lives, and it's so incredibly inexpensive. It's amazing. It's like a dollar a day for each of us, which is almost nothing compared to the quality of life that you can have. 

I understand that not everybody is going to experience the same things, and for some people, it's going to take more time than others. And some people might not stay with it long enough to realize the full potential. But we were very blessed and very lucky that we were able to find out about it first of all, and that we were able to obtain it, and that it worked. And it worked really well. I think of it kind of like when somebody has braces on their teeth and their teeth are beautiful when they come off, but if you don't wear your retainer, your teeth will go right back. So I kind of likened LDN to wearing your retainer. If you don't take it, you can end up going back to the state in which you were prior to taking it. So we are very grateful to it. 

Linda Elsegood: Well, that's wonderful. And you're, you're both in remission, correct; and how many years have you been taking it?

Denise: Currently, yes. It has been wonderful. I've been back on it now for almost two years. So I had gone a very long time without it. And those years were really difficult. It was almost worse than the years before I knew about it because I knew it could be helpful to me and I couldn't get it, as opposed to before when I didn't know that there was anything out there that could be helpful.

So even though it's only been a short time that I've been back on it, comparatively speaking, I have noticed a huge difference in the quality of my life. I don't take naps. I have fewer - you know, I'm only 45 - but I have fewer “senior moments”. I can tend to remember what I'm talking about and not get lost. You know, that brain fog where people kind of look at you and you have to stop and ask them, what did I just say? 

For me, that's been really a good thing because nobody wants to listen to a practitioner or take advice from somebody who can't remember the sentence they said two sentences ago. So it's been a real godsend for my daughter and for me. I'm actually hoping to get my sister on it in the very near future. She does not live near us, so I can't get her to the same doctor where we go. But I'm giving her the information because she has recently been diagnosed with lupus, and I think that she too would be helped remarkably with LDN. 

Linda Elsegood: Well, maybe we can interview your sister. 

Denise: I hope so. 

Linda Elsegood: Thank you for sharing your experience with this. We really do appreciate it.

Denise: Well, thank you for asking me, and thank you again for making this book available for opening our eyes to this; and for really giving fabulous science to it so that we're not walking around talking to doctors and having them look at us like we're nuts; that we can actually point to various chapters and things and say, look, read this. You know, it makes it so much easier to be able to obtain it when you can prove to somebody that it's real and it works, and it's not harmful. So thank you.

Linda Elsegood: Any questions or comments you may have, please Contact Us.  I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciated your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.

Denise - US: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Denise from the United States shares her Low Dose Naltrexone story for multiple sclerosis. 

She was diagnosed with a cat scan first and then an MRI that was around 10 years ago. She was on Copaxone at the time. The meds at first weren’t working out, she was allergic to them. Her quality of life was around a 1 at the time. She started researching looking for different ways to treat MS and she found through a FaceBook group LOW DOSE NALTREXONE. 

After three years of not being on any kind of meds, a doctor finally prescribes it to her. She had mild side effects of gastro problems.

She started seeing major improvements including sleeping better and 75% of the pain went away. Her quality of life increased from a 1/10 to 8/10.

To hear the full summary of Denise experience please listen to the full video.

Delores - US: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Delores from the United States takes LDN medication for multiple sclerosis. 

Delores first started noticing Multiple Sclerosis symptoms after an endoscopic vein laser therapy to help with the varicose veins that she has. Right after the procedure she developed bad foot drop, where she was tripping over her feet, which resulted to not being able to keep up her fitness regime with running. 

After a year, a Neurologist approved an MRI scan where Delores was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS); where she has lesions in the brain, cervical spine, and thoracic spine. 

After finding the Low Dose Naltrexone medication in books and online she began to try it. Where it has now made her feel stronger and able to walk better.

Delores heard about the LDN medication roughly a month and a half after her diagnosis. She found it very hard to obtain a prescription, despite having a countless amount of doctors. This resulted into a holistic doctor giving her a prescription for LDN, during her trialling of different dosages, she started to develop headaches, but three months later, this has improved.

LDN has helped Delores with bladder functions, and slightly with her vision. 

Delores recommends others to try LDN, but to test the waters with dosages, after experiencing how quickly her headaches developed and soon went with the Low Dose Naltrexone.
 

Summary of Delores’ interview, please listen to the video for the full story.

Any questions or comments you may have, please Contact Us.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Keywords: multiple sclerosis, endoscopic vein laser therapy, foot drop, MS, lesions, cervical spine, thoracic spine, headaches, Low Dose Naltrexone, LDN

Deirdre - Ireland: Parkinson's (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: I'd like to welcome Deirdre from Ireland who had Parkinson's disease. Welcome to Deirdre.

Deirdre:  Thank you.

Linda Elsegood:  Could you tell us a bit about your Parkinson's. When it first started and what your symptoms were.

Deirdre: I was diagnosed in 2009 with Parkinson's, but previous to that, I did have symptoms. And I say, I have weakness in my hands, and my legs couldn't write general weakness in my body.

I knew there was something wrong. So in 2009, I was diagnosed after having a cat scan and 2010. and the LDN engineers and they said about it to find out more. And I found a doctor here in Ireland, and he had no problem prescribing LDN in. After going on, the LDN is unbelievable. I started on 3mg and then I haven't done three, I started on I think, and I went down to 4.5. Then after three weeks, I think, four weeks and it made some difference to me.

Linda Elsegood:  After the initial good results you had, did they continue?

Deirdre: I haven't progressed in any form or fashion since then. And this hasn't interfered with my marriage, fixing this. I can see how she know, but it certainly helped me unbelievably.

Linda Elsegood: So how do you feel now compared with before you started LDN and nearly normal?

Deirdre: I can rise again. I can walk perfectly down here. I can. The fry can perfect that I couldn't do before because I'm watching, they came to now.

Linda Elsegood: Well, ask how old you are.

Deirdre: I'm 52 now another diagnosis. So how you, you noticed some weakness. 

So I went to another stuff.

What would you say to other people with Parkinson's and goodness sake, a try? Nothing to lose whatsoever. The notion is warranted to fear with your medication one way or the other. And all you can do is gain from it.

Is there anything else you'd like to add?

Deirdre: No, no, that's my bottom line is can't. Do you any harm whatsoever.

 Linda Elsegood: Thank you very much for sharing your story with us.

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciated your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.

Deena - US: Depression, Anxiety, Dry Eye, Hashimoto's (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Deena takes LDN for depression, anxiety, Hashimotos, and dry eye. Her health problems started when she was a teenager.

Her major depression came out of nowhere. It wasn't related to any life events. However she had diverticulitis, GERD, and inflammation in the gut.

By that time she started seeing a psychiatrist who prescribed it LDN after a lot of failures with all the standard antidepressants.

After a short period of time she started doing things again like gardening, participating in sports, etc. Since then she hasn't had a single bad day.

She did also had a diagnosis of pre-cancerous breast tissue and that again did not impact her ability to enjoy life.

Regarding her Hashimoto's, her antithyroid antibodies have been going steadily down with diet and LDN after the LDN Reverse T3 did back  at normal range.

She also was dealing with a lot of anxiety due to his stressful job working in child abuse as a social worker. However, as soon as she started Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN),  hospital doctor could wean her off the Klonopin for anxiety. She mentioned also she had absolutely no withdrawal symptoms.

"It sounded too good to be true. 

It's a very low dose. Doesn't seem to interfere with other things and it is not too expensive. I tell everyone I think might benefit from it. Give it a try and unfortunately, the biggest problem for people is that they can't get their doctors to prescribe it.

My suggestion to people would be push for it.

Then you really have nothing to lose because if it doesn't work, you stop it."

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Dee - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dee is from England and has multiple sclerosis (MS) since she was about 27. She developed a mild attack of optic neuritis just after her now 15 year old son was born in 2000, that went away on its own. She also recalls not being able to walk properly, feeling like she had 2 bands around the legs at the top. About 2 years later, after a stressful period in her life, she had a second attack of optic neuritis and it was severe. After MRI scans and various tests, a neurologist told her she had a benign form of MS based on what she was seeing at the time. Dee felt frustrated and alone in dealing with her MS. Her best comfort came from other MS patients receiving oxygen therapy.

But she overdid it and got burnt out, perhaps got a bit of virus, and her MS flared up for 2 weeks. Her legs started to drag, particularly her left leg. She tried steroid treatments. She also was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid. Dee read in a New Pathways book about LDN, and finally started LDN in 2008. She noted improvements in energy and feeling more fulfilled from doing positive things she couldn’t before. Her left leg is her worst problem, and has a foot drop. She started 1.5 mg of LDN and only noted some apprehension from weird dreams; and seeing strange patterns when she closed her eyes. Currently she varies between 2.5 mg and 3.0 mg LDN depending on her need, but cannot tolerate 3.0 mg for long because of nausea. Dee feels LDN has made a big difference in the quality of her life.

Looking back, Dee wishes she had started LDN earlier.  She advises not ignoring it or giving up; but recommends others to give it a go as there  is more to gain and nothing to lose. She tries to share her knowledge of LDN with other patients. Her best friend has MS, couldn’t walk far, and was dragging a leg behind her. She started LDN and was completely changed for the better. Dee is 100% behind LDN.

 Summary of Dee's interview, please listen to the video for the full story.

Keywords: LDN, low dose naltrexone, multiple sclerosis, MS, foot drop

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