LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

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

Neil from England takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Multiple Sclerosis. He first started noticing symptoms 20 years ago. He then started having problems when he had a dead leg for a few days. Then after tests and ibuprofen, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Neil heard about LDN five years ago, but doctors were not interested, and managed to receive a prescription privately.

Neill rated his quality of life before the LDN medication a 4 out of 10, and now a 9! LDN helped Neill clear the rain fog he was having, helped his walking abilities, and is even able to walk his Daughter down the aisle!

Neill recommends LDN to all, he says to go for it, and finds it a remarkable drug; he even feels much more positive about life.

Please watch the video to view the full interview. Thank You

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

Nancy from the United States has multiple sclerosis. Symptoms included severe vertigo for three months, doctors told Nancy she had an ear infection. After the vertigo, she was bedridden and also had optic neuritis, but thankfully a neurologist diagnosed Nancy with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Nancy heard about Low Dose Naltrexone medication (LDN) on the internet. At first attempt, Nancy’s Neurologist said no to a possible prescription the first time, but after a second he gave in, despite not believing in this new medication.

Nancy noticed that the LDN was working for her after the first 8 hours after noticing she could finally get out of bed, even experiencing no initial side effects. Nancy quotes that her ‘quality of life has increased tenfold.’ She recommends people to research first, to make sure it is the right decision.

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

Mindy from the United States shares her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and LDN story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Mindy wa diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2013 but didn’t really have any symptoms beforehand. She was struck by a car two years prior and went up in the air and landed on her back. After many surgeries she recovered but about 18 months later the room began to spin again, which was when she was diagnosed.

Her symptoms progressed rapidly from there, finding it difficult to walk and think clearly due to brain fog. Initially Mindy wanted to avoid the pharmaceutical route, but within two month she had fortunately heard about the miraculous effects of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

Since starting on LDN Mindy has no longer needed to use a wheelchair and her MRI scans are all positive.

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

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

Michelle from Australia has Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 41, and first started noticing symptoms ten years ago, and has only been diagnosed for a year with MS. Michelle noticed a deterioration in her right leg and right hand.

Other symptoms were tiredness, very fatigued, and also experienced foot drop.

After much research and asking friends with similar problems, Michelle found the LDN website and told her GP, where he gave her the go ahead to try the Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) medication for herself. Now, her tiredness is better, as well as her quality of life. 

She advises people to take a proactive approach to it, not just sitting back and accepting it. As well as saying that the internet is a really good resource to find information on it, and people’s experiences with the LDN medication.

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

Mervi from Sweden shares her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Mervi has struggled with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for many years prior to her diagnosis. Around 2004 Mervi noticed that she had some numbness in her legs but dismissed it as she was still able to walk. However, as the numbness progressed into her face over the course of the next few years until she was eventually diagnosed in 2009.

Following her diagnosis Mervi was interested in physiotherapy in an attempt to regain feeling in her legs. Through a physiotherapy magazine she found out about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and its positive effects in MS patients.

Following on from a few sleepless nights at the beginning of her prescription, Mervi surprised her physiotherapist within weeks of starting on LDN by being able to jump on one leg. Her miraculous recovery serves as an example of the wonders that LDN can perform.

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

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

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

In this interview, Matt tells his story of how he believes he has had MS symptoms from the early age of 19, yet he was not officially diagnosed until a year ago.

Matt woke up one day with his arm completely numb as well as his legs, making it very difficult to walk. After his diagnosis, Matt searched for alternative solutions and learned of LDN and its success with MS patients.

Since starting on LDN, Matt says his overall mood has improved, he can walk again and his bladder problems have improved greatly.

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

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

Linda Elsegood: Today I'm joined by Matthew from the United States. He's going to share his LDN journey with us. Thank you for joining us, Matthew. 

Matthew: Well, thank you for having me, Linda. I appreciate that. 

Linda Elsegood: So could you tell us, when were you first diagnosed? How long ago was it?

Matthew: Sure. I was diagnosed in October 2004 with relapsing-remitting MS, and I had never heard of LDN,  low dose naltrexone. Actually stumbled across it very much by accident. This was before social media and Facebook and things like that. At the time, I was working at a hotel in Florida and doing a medical conference, and my client was actually a doctor, and she had known that I was diagnosed with MS months before, maybe even a year before. She and I became friends and she asked me, have you ever heard of low dose naltrexone, LDN? And I said, no, I have not. And she shared with me all the benefits that it has. 

And she was a doctor in Alabama. She couldn't write a prescription at that particular time, but a funny story was when she had given me a lot of information about it and even provided some literature to me. At that time, I  was seeing a neurologist who I no longer see now. When I spoke to him about it, the very first thing he said was, I have a lot of patients who actually swear by it. I said I want to try it. And I have been on it ever since. I titrated from literally maybe a milligram all the way up to four milligrams. And I've been currently at three milligrams for maybe three, maybe four years. I've been on LDN since about a year after my diagnosis and probably since 2005. 

Linda Elsegood. And what were your MS symptoms like before you started, were you in remission and you didn't know you had MS, were all of your symptoms gone? 

Matthew: My original symptoms were peculiar at that time.  I had the numbing tingling in my fingers. I had cold sensations. If I put my arm on a wooden desk, it felt like I was putting my arm on an ice block.  I was having at that time, some tingling in my legs. I was extremely tired. Fatigue. When  I talked with my wife I knew something was not right. I went to my original family physician, and he aid, you know Matthew, it sounds like MS.  But I don't want you to get on the internet and look it up, but it sounds like. And what do you think the first thing I did, I went back home and I looked it up. Every symptom that was listed on there was exactly that. Again, this was before social media, so there wasn't a lot that I could lean on. Now the different support groups out there are asking questions and getting different answers. So a lot of it was Googling and trying to find as much information as possible.

Linda Elsegood: So after starting LDN, did your symptoms start to improve? 

Matthew: My symptoms did improve. The biggest noticeable one that I have then I noticed immediately was my fatigue. My fatigue dropped altogether. If there is a day that I skip my LDN,  sometimes I'll skip it once every two or three weeks to clear the pathways. Now I'm not suggesting it. One of my close doctor friends suggested that to me and I have done that and I have noticed a difference. AAs an example, when I was not on my LDN, the fatigue was overwhelming. When I started taking it within the second day, maybe third day, it was completely turned around. 

Linda Elsegood: Have you had any more problems with your legs? 

Matthew: I've had MS since I was diagnosed in 2004. I suspect I probably had it prior to that because looking back, I had a couple of symptoms back in 2002. Having it for 14, maybe 16 years, unfortunately, it is a progressive type of disease. It has taken a toll on me, not just the disease, but I was in a very high-stress job and that definitely took a toll on me. As I shared with you, Linda, in my email several weeks ago, one of my goals was always to walk every one of my four girls down their wedding aisle. And I have successfully been able to do that with two of my girls, and I still have two more to go. I expect that that's going to continue throughout. 

Linda Elsegood: Wow. So if you had to rate your quality of life on a score of one to 10 before you started LDN, what would it have been?

Matthew:  Linda, because I was very early onset of MS at that time, my quality of life was still very good. I was still able to do many things. I was able to still run. I was still able to do those types of things. I would say my quality of life definitely got better without question after getting on the LDN. The elimination of fatigue helps a lot. It also helps the pain receptors. I hear and see a lot of people talking about the pain that they have with MS. And I'm pretty fortunate that I don't have pain and I truly believe that has everything to do with the LDN. I just don't have certain pains. Are there times of uncomfortability? Absolutely. Without question, but there's never the time of true pain. But if you are really fatigued, everything you try and do that day, it's very difficult? It's hard to explain what fatigue is like to somebody who doesn't have fatigue, but it's like waking up. And your batteries are flashing red, and you still got to go through the whole day, and every day it can be different.

And even if you have a full night's sleep, you can still wake up feeling just as tired in the morning. So it's the struggle, isn't it? When you have fatigue. If that is all LDN had done for me, it would still be amazing, wouldn't it?  Absolutely. People have asked that same question, this fatigue just means you're tired. And I'm like, well, it's more than just, you know, it's not like feeling sleepy. It's like you feel like you want to take a nap, but you can't fall asleep, and your body is just exhausted. The LDN has tremendously helped with that without question. That's what I would say to everybody.

Anytime I get on the social sites and see people talk about how fatigued they are I let them know to get on LDN, contact your doctor immediately to get this cause that's a big symptom or a big side effect with MS that people battle. There are so many other medications than drugs that people can be drugged upon. And without having all the side effects. It doesn't have any of those side effects, it really is a wonderful aspect of it. 

Linda Elsegood: Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us, Matthew. Your second-oldest daughter just had a baby. Is that right?  And you've got another one due next year, so you're hopefully going to be a very hands-on granddad and be very busy. 

Matthew: Well, thank you. I expect it. We will be travelling back to Florida a couple more times, but yes, I do expect it.

Linda Elsegood: Good. Well, thank you very much for joining us today, Matthew. 

Matthew: All right, thank you so much, Linda. You have a great day. 

Linda Elsegood: This show is sponsored by our members who made donations. We'd like to give them a very big thank you. We have to cover the monthly costs of the radio station software and phone lines and phone calls to be able to continue with the show.

And thank you for listening. Any questions or comments you may have, please email me at contact@ldnresearchtrust.org. 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.

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

Mary from Scotland shares their ultiple sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Mary was diagnosed with MS in 2009 but actually started on Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) prior to her diagnosis. Having noticed recurring symptoms of fatigue, numbness and a lack of energy for a number of years, Mary decided to take her treatment into her own hands and decided to research alternative treatments.

While researching Mary came across LDN, which proved to have miraculous effects for her. Within a matter of weeks Mary began to feel better already, mentioning that she felt like “she had her own life back”. 

After gradually working up to her optimal dose, Mary has continued on LDN for many years and sings its praises to anyone she comes across with MS who isn’t already on LDN.

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

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

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

Martin was diagnosed with MS in 2002 in his mid fifties but had been suffering from symptoms prior to his diagnosis. These included weakness in his right leg which restricted his movement and his eyesight was also affected.

He first discovered LDN in his local newspaper, having read a glowing review by another with MS who had experienced a miraculous recovery on LDN. In 2005 Martin was able to obtain a prescription and hasn’t looked back since.

His overall mood has improved, his mobility has increased and his vision is almost back to normal. Martin “definitely recommend LDN to anyone who’s interested”.

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

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

Mark from England shares their multiple sclerosis (MS) and low dose naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Mark was diagnosed with MS in 2006 at the age of 25. His symptoms prior to his diagnosis began with pins and needles in his legs, but this soon was in combination with fatigue and numbness.

Mark heard about LDN through a friend who took it. Within a month of starting on LDN, Mark’s fatigue had less control over his life and he had begun to regain feeling in the numb areas. Mark describes LDN as “allowing him to control his own future.”

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